Jul 25 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com It’s been a long week for yours truly. By “long,” I don’t mean to imply that our efforts to help keep the community informed were in any way tedious. My specific tasks were simply grueling, and not for any extraordinarily-problematic situations like we’ve encountered in the past but for …
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Jul 18 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Plenty can happen in a week. Since my last entry, officials from the City of Rio Hondo have been more forthcoming concerning Place 5 Commissioner Joseph “Joe” Lopez’ domestic violence charge. City Administrator Ben Medina went from scolding a News reporter for inquiring about the matter to not just …
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Jul 11 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com If Rio Hondo should ever escape the dark cloud of controversy that has long been cast over the sleepy community, it’ll happen because its leaders embraced challenges rather than running from them. Take, for instance, Rio Hondo City Administrator Ben Medina, who expressed anger Friday when San Benito News …
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Jul 03 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com I know there’s plenty about myself that’s unattractive – I snore in my sleep, I eat at double the speed as ordinary humans and I’m clearly overweight. To my friends, I jokingly refer to myself as “The Obeast” in a rather pathetic attempt at self-deprecating humor. I suppose my …
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Jun 27 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com It’s been nearly a year since I issued a challenge to the San Benito CISD Board of Trustees, then-Interim Superintendent Alfonso Obregón and Miller Jordan Middle School Principal Mary Alice Leal to turn the oft-troubled campus around. Plaguing Miller Jordan at that time was yet another principal reassignment, the …
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Jun 20 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Twenty-one years is a long time to be in pain, and yet Janet Mata has lived it as a badge of honor. Afflicted with a muscular dystrophy disease called dermatomyositis (DM), the 21-year-old San Benito resident is no stranger to pain and discomfort. Consider that her muscles have deteriorated …
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Jun 13 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Should a time come when we’ll be judged for how we treated our veterans, make no mistake that history will not be kind to this current generation. Consider the federal audit that revealed the VA Texas Valley Coastal Bend Health Care System in Harlingen produced the worst wait times …
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Jun 06 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Eighteen-year-old Liliana Polanco lost her class ring earlier this year; it was a dainty piece of jewelry that usually adorned her left ring finger, where she planned for it to remain as a keepsake that would serve to remind her of life at San Benito High School. The SBHS …
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May 31 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com It’s amazing what we’ve become accustomed to tolerating – atrocities committed against children, public corruption that has infiltrated nearly every aspect of law and government, paralyzing prejudice the likes of which has quietly oppressed the inflicted as well as the inflictor, and the suffocating apathy that allowed it all …
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May 23 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Exhausted and under pressure to meet a particularly grueling deadline, I recently felt the strain of my everyday duties seep into the consciousness of this already-burdened mind. And while tension is certainly not an alien concept to any newspaper editor, there are times when the aforementioned occurrence can become …
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