Michael Rodriguez
@michaelscottrod.bsky.social
Editor of MyRGV.com | Deputy editor of The Monitor, Valley Morning Star and The Brownsville Herald | Born in San Benito, TX | Reporting from McAllen, TX
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July 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputy Mike Aleman didn’t say much. But he didn’t have to since this embrace from the man whose life he saved from a fire in McAllen said it all.
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‘He did save my life,’ says McAllen man of deputy who pulled him from fire
Standing stoically in uniform on Tuesday, Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputy Mike Daniel Aleman didn’t say much as he listened to stories of his gallantry, but he didn’t have to because the man whose lif...
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March 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputy Mike Aleman didn’t say much. But he didn’t have to since this embrace from the man whose life he saved from a fire in McAllen said it all.
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“The First Amendment … carries an obvious corollary that the government can’t force (the press) to say or publish anything against their will. Using sanctions to punish or browbeat media into compliance or prior restraint is just as bad as government censorship.”
Editorial: Sanctioning news media for their accurate reporting is wrong, unconstitutional
President Donald Trump’s overreaching use of fiats, and his attacks against legitimate news media, continue to reach alarming extremes and test legal limits.
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March 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“The First Amendment … carries an obvious corollary that the government can’t force (the press) to say or publish anything against their will. Using sanctions to punish or browbeat media into compliance or prior restraint is just as bad as government censorship.”
“The reality is that we do have migrant families that are undocumented and they’re fearful. They don’t want to be targeted. They’re fearful of who they talk to and some don’t want to be found because they have that fear factor.”
Edinburg migrant program sees amplified fear among students, families
The district’s Migrant Neighborhood Identification and Recruitment Program kicked off its efforts Monday to identify and connect students to resources.
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February 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
“The reality is that we do have migrant families that are undocumented and they’re fearful. They don’t want to be targeted. They’re fearful of who they talk to and some don’t want to be found because they have that fear factor.”
One protester, a professional wrestler from McAllen who goes by the name Kike Caballero, said he wasn’t expecting such a turnout: “People were dancing in the middle of the street and marching at the mall, marching back and forth. It makes me proud to be a Mexican-American.”
Hundreds take to downtown McAllen to protest Trump’s mass deportations
Fight ignorance, not immigrants. So says a sign held outside a rear passenger seat window from one of dozens of vehicles that took to South 10th Street in McAllen on Saturday evening, protesting the T...
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February 2, 2025 at 6:20 AM
One protester, a professional wrestler from McAllen who goes by the name Kike Caballero, said he wasn’t expecting such a turnout: “People were dancing in the middle of the street and marching at the mall, marching back and forth. It makes me proud to be a Mexican-American.”
Oh yeah. Not a stunt at all.
January 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Oh yeah. Not a stunt at all.
Wasn’t this not supposed to be enforced until Monday? Sets things up nicely, doesn’t it?
January 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Wasn’t this not supposed to be enforced until Monday? Sets things up nicely, doesn’t it?
These students got the opportunity of a lifetime nearly 50 years ago. One of them is remembering the occasion as a grateful nation mourns. | #RGV
The time Weslaco students were invited to Jimmy Carter’s inauguration
Forty-eight years ago, a group of 32 elementary school students from the Rio Grande Valley were chaperoned by 22 adults as they boarded a plane.
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January 9, 2025 at 5:39 AM
These students got the opportunity of a lifetime nearly 50 years ago. One of them is remembering the occasion as a grateful nation mourns. | #RGV
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A little reflection for 2025. There's no i in team. Thankful for my colleagues (and competitors).
January 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A little reflection for 2025. There's no i in team. Thankful for my colleagues (and competitors).
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Our seventh most-read story of this year: When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
Read more (published October) ⬇️
Read more (published October) ⬇️
Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
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December 29, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Our seventh most-read story of this year: When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
Read more (published October) ⬇️
Read more (published October) ⬇️
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Jesus Charles graduated from Lopez in 2009, earned a degree in aerospace engineering from UT and then worked for the Johnson Space Center in Houston for six years. Now he’s senior mission operations engineer for Firefly Aerospace’s uncrewed Blue Ghost Mission 1 spacecraft. | #RGV
Valley native is working on Firefly Aerospace’s mission to the moon
A Brownsville native and Lopez Early College High School graduate is a part of a team that will put a lunar lander loaded with scientific equipment on the moon in early 2025.
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December 27, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Jesus Charles graduated from Lopez in 2009, earned a degree in aerospace engineering from UT and then worked for the Johnson Space Center in Houston for six years. Now he’s senior mission operations engineer for Firefly Aerospace’s uncrewed Blue Ghost Mission 1 spacecraft. | #RGV
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Jim Harrington is no stranger to taking on Goliath in the courtroom through his work as an attorney with the American Civil Rights Union, founding Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido and the Texas Civil Rights Project, as well as serving as Cesar Chavez’s attorney for 18 years. | #RGV
Attorney who fought for farm worker rights in Valley pens memoir
For anyone who has familiarized themselves with the fight for Civil Rights for farm workers throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the name Jim Harrington is one that is often repeated as a central force for...
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December 27, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Jim Harrington is no stranger to taking on Goliath in the courtroom through his work as an attorney with the American Civil Rights Union, founding Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido and the Texas Civil Rights Project, as well as serving as Cesar Chavez’s attorney for 18 years. | #RGV
The look of heartbreak and the power of love in the #RGV, via @sleepingwolf.bsky.social.
A decade's-long romance came to a tragic end for the Coronas of Mission, Texas in October. It started with ankle pain. And it ended with a family in desperation.
This Mission family is enduring a nightmare from which there is no waking
MISSION — Jose Corona-Guzman first met his wife, Emily Garza, about eight years ago at a drive-thru where she used to work.
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December 7, 2024 at 2:24 AM
The look of heartbreak and the power of love in the #RGV, via @sleepingwolf.bsky.social.
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"Why won't you write about Trump's terrible nominees!?"
These are the last six pieces I wrote. Five are about Trump's nominations.
Look, I don't mind if you don't like a piece. No one likes everything. But I do mind if you make dumb objections without checking. 🤷♂️
These are the last six pieces I wrote. Five are about Trump's nominations.
Look, I don't mind if you don't like a piece. No one likes everything. But I do mind if you make dumb objections without checking. 🤷♂️
December 3, 2024 at 12:02 AM
"Why won't you write about Trump's terrible nominees!?"
These are the last six pieces I wrote. Five are about Trump's nominations.
Look, I don't mind if you don't like a piece. No one likes everything. But I do mind if you make dumb objections without checking. 🤷♂️
These are the last six pieces I wrote. Five are about Trump's nominations.
Look, I don't mind if you don't like a piece. No one likes everything. But I do mind if you make dumb objections without checking. 🤷♂️
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We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.
All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋
All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋
The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky - Bluesky
Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.
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November 29, 2024 at 10:30 PM
We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.
All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋
All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋
Who said journalists can’t cook. OK, no one said that. I just wanted an excuse to share our turkey meal. And yes, I take orders.
November 29, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Who said journalists can’t cook. OK, no one said that. I just wanted an excuse to share our turkey meal. And yes, I take orders.
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Elon Musk identified obscure federal employees by name as he questioned the value of their jobs in recent social media posts, alarming the largest union representing federal workers.
Workers’ union criticizes Elon Musk for posts identifying federal employees.
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November 28, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Elon Musk identified obscure federal employees by name as he questioned the value of their jobs in recent social media posts, alarming the largest union representing federal workers.
Growing pains.
Stretch of road in McAllen, Pharr ranks 41st most congested in Texas
We did it.
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November 27, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Growing pains.
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Saw that an outlet or two not from the area reported that the Gulf Cartel has expanded into illegal fishing. That's just not true. This has been going on a long time. On Sunday, the Coast Guard stopped three lanchas, 19 Mexican fishermen & seized 2,200 pounds of red snapper off South Padre Island
Gulf Cartel members hit with sanctions over illegal fishing off South Padre Island
The U.S. Department of Treasury on Tuesday sanctioned the Gulf Cartel's Matamoros plaza boss, two brothers who are in charge of Playa Bagdad for the cartel, and the owners of two camps there that are ...
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November 27, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Saw that an outlet or two not from the area reported that the Gulf Cartel has expanded into illegal fishing. That's just not true. This has been going on a long time. On Sunday, the Coast Guard stopped three lanchas, 19 Mexican fishermen & seized 2,200 pounds of red snapper off South Padre Island
Post a “perfect” album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
November 27, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Post a “perfect” album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
If you’re a writer like me who doesn’t know when to call it a night, it’s when you begin to ignore the feeling that something is crawling on you only to discover — after far too much time has passed — that it was a cockroach. Or so I’ve heard. I don’t know.
November 27, 2024 at 6:39 AM
If you’re a writer like me who doesn’t know when to call it a night, it’s when you begin to ignore the feeling that something is crawling on you only to discover — after far too much time has passed — that it was a cockroach. Or so I’ve heard. I don’t know.
Needed this fun trend story to remind myself to smile at the news occasionally.
Will Big D show up on Thursday, or will they be a big disappointment?
Thanksgiving may serve crow for frustrated Cowboys fans
Since 1966, football fans have been saddling in with a slice of turkey to watch America's Team.
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November 27, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Needed this fun trend story to remind myself to smile at the news occasionally.
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Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
November 26, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
The Brownsville Herald and MyRGV.com have covered this story extensively with insight about the local impact SpaceX has on the #RGV. Veteran journalist Steve Clark finds his pen and notes: “Another key finding is that the Starship launch is ‘substantially louder’ than the launch of a NASA … rocket.”
The research team, led by Kent L. Gee, BYU professor of physics and chairman of the university’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, found that the sonic boom made by the Super Heavy booster’s return to the launch pad caused the biggest overpressure event. | #RGV
Study: Sonic booms from SpaceX launches could cause structural damage
A team of Brigham Young University researchers measuring noise levels during SpaceX's Oct. 13 Starship Super Heavy launch from Boca Chica found that associated overpressure events had the potential to...
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November 26, 2024 at 10:37 PM
The Brownsville Herald and MyRGV.com have covered this story extensively with insight about the local impact SpaceX has on the #RGV. Veteran journalist Steve Clark finds his pen and notes: “Another key finding is that the Starship launch is ‘substantially louder’ than the launch of a NASA … rocket.”
This affirms my belief that “The Shining” is a Christmas movie.
November 26, 2024 at 5:37 AM
This affirms my belief that “The Shining” is a Christmas movie.