By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com In case you haven’t noticed, the San Benito News packs quite the journalistic punch. Take this statement not as an exercise in arrogance on our part but of confidence in the paper’s ability to report community news and, at times, publish hard-hitting exposés that inspire positive change in the …
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Mar 28 2014
CONSIDER THIS: Why Prioritizing is San Benito’s Kryptonite
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com If I was forced to choose one thing that I believe is the culprit for all the controversy that has plagued San Benito over the last several years, I’d identify a misguided sense of prioritizing — characterized by our leadership’s lack of focus, professionalism and rationale — as our …
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Mar 14 2014
CONSIDER THIS: 8 Reasons Why We Couldn’t Find a Coach… Until Now
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com “I can’t believe the news today. I can’t close my eyes and make it go away.” –Paul “Bono” Hewson, U2 Sing it for San Benito, Bono! Because finding the words to describe my frustration in the process of selecting a new head football coach and athletic director for the …
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Mar 07 2014
SBASC COMMITTEE: Was the Board right to table the selection of a new head coach?
The San Benito “Anti-Selection Committee” Committee is a group of citizens formed to hold accountable the actions of San Benito CISD administrators during their search for a new head football coach and athletic director. And if you haven’t figured it out yet, we’re not fans of selection committees doing the job that the aforementioned administrators …
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Feb 28 2014
SBASC COMMITTEE: Applicants – This is the real interview
The San Benito “Anti-Selection Committee” Committee is a group of citizens formed to hold accountable the actions of San Benito CISD administrators during their search for a new head football coach and athletic director. And if you haven’t figured it out yet, we’re not fans of selection committees doing the job that the aforementioned administrators …
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Jan 31 2014
SBASC COMMITTEE: Stop the Press! A Cardinal Wants In? And what’s up with the whole Rusty Dowling thing?
The San Benito “Anti-Selection Committee” Committee is a group of citizens formed to hold accountable the actions of San Benito CISD administrators during their search for a new head football coach and athletic director. And if you haven’t figured it out yet, we’re not fans of selection committees doing the job that the aforementioned administrators …
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Feb 12 2014
CONSIDER THIS: Chuy Aguilera and the Art of Lying
February 12, 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com I was out of the office Tuesday due to a bad case of food poisoning. Simply put, I thought I was going to vomit a lung. So there I was, lying in bed trying not to breathe because relentless puking had made me so sore that even so much …
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