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City of Laredo Inaugurates Fitness Center

Laredo, Texas – The City of Laredo Council Member for District 6, Dr. Marte Martinez, celebrated a ribbon-cutting ceremony to present a new Fitness Center at North Central Park on Monday, October 25, 2021.
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New Corporate Partner Announced

The RGV Hispanic Chamber proudly announces their newest corporate partner as Northwestern Mutual.

Carbon dioxide emissions rebound to nearly pre-pandemic levels

Newswise — Irvine, Calif. — Days before the opening of the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Glasgow, Scotland, the latest estimates by the Carbon Monitor, an international research initiative begun during the pandemic, show that global carbon dioxide emissions as of the end of September 2021 were just 0.9 percent lower than emissions at the same time in 2019.

Collaboration leads to 45 Apprehensions

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents arrested 45 migrants at three locations with the assistance of local partners.

Healthcare Is A Priority — Not Politics

“The greatest wealth is health” is an aphorism that captures the impact of health on our lives and underscores the importance of access to health care for all, regardless of income. It ties-in to the frequently debated question, namely, “Is health care a right or a privilege?”

Zapata Becomes Women’s Soccer’s All-Time Points Leader

Junior Emily Zapata became the all-time points leader in The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) women’s soccer history as the Vaqueros beat the Abilene Christian University Wildcats 2-1 on Thursday at the UTRGV Soccer and Track & Field Complex.

Women’s Volleyball Falls at Sam Houston

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Vaqueros volleyball team fell to the Sam Houston Bearkats 1-3 (14-25, 26-24, 16-25, 15-25) on Thursday at Johnson Coliseum.

Men’s Soccer Club heads to regionals

For the second consecutive season, the Texas Southmost College Men’s Soccer Club packed up its cleats and headed north, this time to Lubbock, to compete in the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) Region IV Super Regional Soccer Championships
Computers mine for bitcoin at Whinstone's Rockdale facility. Photo Credit:  Michael Gonzalez/The Texas Tribune

Texas Republicans want to make the state the center of the cryptocurrency universe

Expansion plans are in the works to more than double the plant’s capacity and make it the biggest bitcoin mining facility in the world, according to Whinstone U.S. CEO Chad Everett Harris.
Experienced older workers will retire eventually, but a new study suggests how employers may persuade some of them to stick around for a few more years. Image for illustration purposes.

Keeping experienced older workers from retiring

Employees with less education and who were not managers were especially likely to want to stay at high-quality jobs and delay retirement.

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