Saturday, July 21, 2007

Girl in a Coma Coming Back to the RGV

Girl in a Coma is coming back to the Valley. If you have not heard or seen this band, you will be amazed. This three-piece, all-girl band from San Antonio rocks. Check out their video for Clumsy Sky. They will play at City Lights in Harlingen on July 27 and at Trade Bar in McAllen on July 28.

Friday, July 13, 2007

Border Fence Story on NPR

Check out this great piece from NPR last month. It details the universal opposition in the Rio Grande Valley to the border fence. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11118125. Local leaders such as JD Salinas, Hidalgo County Judge, as well as business people, environmentalists and ranchers oppose building this fence which will do very little to stop illegal immigration. Even the government official interviewed says they know at best it will only slow down the border crosser. Why spend all this money, damage the local ecosystem and further damage our relations with our neighbors to only "slow down" an illegal??

Monday, July 09, 2007

OptOutPrescreen.com


As corny as it sounds, Live Earth this weekend made me take a look at what I can do to help the environment. A great site to start off with is OptOutPrescreen.com. This site will stop a good chunk of those credit offers that fill up your mailbox. Nine times out of 10 we just throw those credit card offers away. Here's how we can stop receiving them and save a couple of trees at the same time. I did it and it only took a few moments. I think everyone should do this too.