The Mission City Council is considering five new options for primary legal representation, some kind of transitional agreement with its current attorney and a potential change to how it’s traditionally done legal services, and it’s doing it almost entirely out of the public’s eye.   Last Wednesday Mission City Council heard presentations from attorneys who…

Filomena Leo didn’t consider herself a revolutionary, but she managed to accomplish a good deal of change anyway.   Leo, who died Sunday at the age of 76, was for decades the stately matriarch of the dominant political family in La Joya and a longtime educator at La Joya ISD, a career that culminated in…

A judge Wednesday recessed proceedings for Edinburg school district’s nude exercise suit for the third time after attorneys once again failed to resolve disagreements over documents related to the case, delays that prompted that judge to admonish attorneys involved and threaten holding people in contempt of court — which could result in an arrest.  …

The family of a woman who died after being found strangled in the city of Mission’s jail two years ago sued the city and eight of its police department employees last Friday, alleging her rights had been violated.   Karina Peralez Rodriguez’s mother and husband —Maria de la Luz Gallegos and Julio Cesar Cardenas —…

Tuesday, Mission City Council heard a pitch on becoming the second non-school district to join the South Texas School Board Association.   Founded last year, the association pledged to become an advocacy group for local school districts, acting as a think tank and networking facilitator.   The association told prospective members that South Texas’ schools…

The administrative nervous system of Edinburg CISD received some board attention earlier this month.   Whether that attention was appropriate sparked some controversy on the board, though the district’s school board president says potential administrative organizational review is a worthy efficiency measure.   Edinburg school district — like other districts — has an organizational chart…

Courtroom proceedings last week regarding a suit filed by the father of an Edinburg school district student told to exercise in a state of undress in 2024 recessed until January after attorneys bitterly sparred for a few hours over whether the school district’s lawyers should be allowed to represent its individually sued employees.   In…

Mission City Attorney Patricia Rigney informed the city last week that she intends to resign at the end of the month after a little more than a year-and-a-half with the city.   In a resignation letter submitted Nov. 25 Rigney said she decided to resign to dedicate more time to her family and to pursue…

Newly appointed Edinburg CISD School Board President Xavier Salinas said Monday that he intends to use the leadership position to strive for more accountability and more efficiency at the district.   Trustees voted to name Salinas president while reorganizing their officers at a board meeting Monday.   A career educator, Salinas retired as superintendent at…