Oct 10 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com If there’s one phrase I’m sick of hearing, it’s the oft-uttered cliché, “Only in San Benito.” Well, maybe not so much the phrase but its level of contempt is what has recently earned my scorn. Know that the source of my frustration stems not from the cynical, pseudo-intellectual types …
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Oct 10 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Eric Thomas Duncan, the first person in the U.S. to be diagnosed with Ebola (in the States, anyway) succumbed to the deadly virus this week. Leading up to his death, news of Duncan’s case gave way to concerns which mounted throughout the nation as anyone exhibiting symptoms that even …
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Oct 10 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Special to the NEWS HeatherCathleenCox@gmail.com Lately, I have had so many trials and travails, so many expectations–both self-inflicted and the other kind–that I almost forgot who I am. I had to remind myself that I am not the sum of my wants, my past, my hopes or my future. I am …
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Sep 26 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com I had an interesting conversation with a young girl on Friday. We were discussing what she liked to the read in the newspaper, what would prompt her friends to pick up a copy and what exactly discourages teenagers from reading what’s in the news. At age 17, Jennifer Garcia …
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Sep 26 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Late last week, my editor asked me to drive to Brownsville the following Monday to cover the SpaceX groundbreaking ceremony, and by asked, I mean told. This meant I had to be up extra-early in order to be at the Brownsville Events Center no later than 8:45 a.m. where …
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Sep 26 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Special to the NEWS HeatherCathleenCox@gmail.com I’m guilty. I’ve bought into the hype that is Godly singleness, which essentially teaches that single women are actually ladies in waiting for the right man. I think I even liked a Facebook page about “Waiting for my Boaz.” Sigh. Drilling the fantasy: I just need …
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Sep 19 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Here’s to all the keyboard warriors. Those brave souls who hide behind the safety of their computer’s LCD screen, typing away with the fearless bravado of a seasoned fighter, afraid of nothing — except real-life people. Last week, someone commented on Michael Rodriguez’s column about U2 at the San …
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Sep 19 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Special to the NEWS Everyone receives one lot in life, or what I refer to as one big, giant scrap heap. Yes, life gifts each person one giant mess, full of the splinters of dysfunctional relatives, the thorns of broken-heartedness and the snakes of evil motive. Your life may have gifted …
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Sep 12 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com I can trace my love for writing back to when I was about 11 years old. Inspired by a passion for music, I remember inking pen to paper my thoughts on how certain songs affected me at that time. Warning: I shared a similar story back in March 2010, but it …
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Sep 19 2014
CONSIDER THIS: Sbnewspaper.com in Retrospect
September 19, 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Much of what’s said about the comments on sbnewspaper.com, I’m sure, is negative. In fact, I’ve long imagined that many a conversation in text messages or at the water coolers/break rooms/fax machines/kitchen tables of our lives consists of utter dismay and disgust. But then there are moments of laughter …
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