Featured, from left: Rep. Ryan Guillén, D-Rio Grande City, and Rep. Sergio Muñoz, D-Mission, on July 9, 2015 at the Double Tree Suites by Hilton Hotel in McAllen for the 84th Legislative Session Wrap-up Luncheon on Thursday, July 9, 2015 hosted by the McAllen Chamber of Commerce. Photograph By MARK MONTEMAYOR

Plan designed to maintain hundreds of millions of dollars for state trauma funding is approaching final approval by the Texas Legislature, reports Hidalgo County EMS/South Texas Air Med

by Legislative Media | May 21, 2019 | Politics

A plan that would help protect and increase revenue for a state program that helps pay for uncompensated trauma care costs for an estimated 130,000 Texans who are hospitalized in trauma centers every year is approaching final approval by the Texas Legislature, according to Hidalgo County EMS/South Texas Air Med.

Sports medicine institute in Pharr, Doctor of Audiology degree among UTRGV issues on agenda for UT System Board of Regents on Wednesday and Thursday, announces Rep. Canales

by Legislative Media | May 19, 2019 | Politics

A proposed sports medicine institute in Pharr and the initial approval for a Doctor of Audiology degree program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley are among the South Texas higher education items that will be considered by the UT System Board of Regents on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 and Thursday, May 23, 2019, Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, has announced.

Rep. Canales appointed by Speaker Bonnen to high-profile House-Senate committee aimed at restraining increases in local property taxes

by Legislative Media | May 12, 2019 | Politics

Featured, from left: Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, Chair, House Committee on Transportation, in March 2019 reenacting for this portrait receiving his Chairman’s gavel from Speaker of the House Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton. Photograph By HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHY •••••• Rep....

Featured, from left: Carlos García-Cantú, MD, Director of Surgery, DHR Health; Manish Singh, MD, Chief Executive Officer, DHR Health; Kenneth L. Mattox, MD, Distinguished Service Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Chief of Staff and Surgeon-in-Chief, Ben Taub Hospital, Houston; Ronald M. Stewart, Chair, Department of Surgery, UT Health Science Center, San Antonio; Raúl Barreda, MD, Trauma Medical Director, DHR Health; and Ricardo Martínez, MD, Assistant Medical Director, General Surgery, DHR Health on Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at the Edinburg Conference Center at Renaissance. Photograph Courtesy DHR HEALTH

DHR Health is now functioning as a Level I Trauma Center

by Legislative Media | May 10, 2019 | Politics

People who suffer some of the most life-threatening injuries, such as those which result from car crashes, blunt trauma (striking or being struck by an object), serious falls, or gun shot or stab wounds, finally have the highest level of life-saving medical care available in the Rio Grande Valley.

Featured: Raquel Pérez, right, posing with her mother and father, Raquel and Fito Pérez, is the youngest of four children and a migrant farmworker, and she will be the first in her family to graduate from a university when she walks on Saturday, May 11, 2019 at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Spring Commencement at the McAllen Convention Center. The journey to get the diploma took five years. She is one of the first at UTRGV to receive the Charles Butt Scholarship for Aspiring Teachers, under the Raise Your Hand Texas Foundation.

Striving for better: Raquel Pérez, UT Rio Grande Valley soon-to-be graduate, who embraces her roots as a migrant farmworker, ready for next chapter

by Legislative Media | May 9, 2019 | Politics

Family vacations, spending time with friends, taking a break from schoolwork – college students usually envision those as summer break activities. But for Raquel Pérez, a bilingual education major at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, summers consisted of waking up early to work long hours in la labor, helping her family sort produce on a farm in Michigan.

National Waiters and Waitresses Day, scheduled for Tuesday, May 21, 2019, is an opportunity to thank the front-of-house staff for the work they do to make dining experiences special

Measure that could save tipped employees hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars annually in lost wages, approved by Texas House, says Rep. Canales

by Legislative Media | May 7, 2019 | Politics

House Bill 133, which would prohibit an employer from keeping any portion of a gratuity paid to or left for a tipped employee – potentially saving such workers hundreds and possibly thousands of dollars a year in lost wages – has been approved by the Texas House of Representatives, according to Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg.

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