Podcast: Border News Wrap for weekending Nov. 2, 2019

MCALLEN, RGV - This week’s news-wrap looks at the week ending Nov. 2, 2019. 

Among the topics discussed with Rio Grande Guardian editor Steve Taylor are:

1. The life of a campesino in rural México;
2. The Texas Border Coalition’s efforts to ensure a complete census count along the Texas-México border;
3. Greater Brownsville Incentive Corporation’s ‘We Grow Our Own’ program;
4. Greater McAllen Association of Realtors’ look at Opportunity Zones;
5. This year’s Constitutional Amendments for Texas, and in particular Propositions 2, 5, and 8;
6. The Texas Department of Transportation’s Border Transportation Master Plan;
7. The Texas Senate’s interim charges;
8. Rio Grande Valley Metropolitan Planning Authority’s October board meeting;
9. Doctors Hospital at Renaissance’s Paths Program;
10. South Texas College’s 2019 Innovation Conference;
11. Rolando Vela’s optimism about a second causeway for South Padre Island;
12. The opening of a new IDEA school in Harlingen;
13. The Rio Grande Guardian’s sponsorship of a soccer team in Reynosa. 

Editor's Note: The main image accompanying this podcast shows attendees at a Texas Department of Transportation meeting held in Reynosa on Oct. 30, 2019. The meeting focused on TxDOT's border transportation master plan.