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<title>Guest Column</title>
<description>28 stories - 4 x 7</description>
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<language>en-us</language><item><title>Tallant: Texas A&amp;M-Kingsville�s engineering program offers choices to RGV students</title><description><![CDATA[WESLACO, November 3 - When Texas A&M University-Kingsville first began discussing the idea of expanding our engineering programs in the Rio Grande Valley, we knew it could draw some resistance...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=22</link></item>
<item><title>Perryman: The End of Quantitative Easing
</title><description><![CDATA[WACO, November 6 - It�s the end of an era...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=23</link></item>
<item><title>Opinion: New diabetes research institute is great news for entire Valley</title><description><![CDATA[HARLINGEN, November 6 - The recent announcement of the formation of the new University of Texas Rio Grande Valley South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute is great news for the entire Rio Grande Valley and for our families...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=24</link></item>
<item><title>Cass: Undocumented parents, children, are the face of Christ today</title><description><![CDATA[McALLEN, July 3 - When I heard stories of great famines occurring in Africa I would think to myself, �How close does a starving child have to be for local people to show concern? 

Would a child starving to death on my front lawn be enough to soften the hearts of neighbors to respond? What if the child lived in North Texas or in Mississippi? Is that too far away to get involved?� 

Today we have children right in our midst who need attention, love, and caring...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=1</link></item>
<item><title>Acevedo: Coming to America</title><description><![CDATA[CHIMAYO, New Mexico, July 7 - While I was driving through the mountain passes and valleys of northern New Mexico last week when a tune begin to play on my satellite radio...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=2</link></item>
<item><title>Cornyn/Cuellar: Texas Must Take Urgent Action on Migrant Children Crisis</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=3</link></item>
<item><title>Mounce: "I Will Not Sit Idly By..."</title><description><![CDATA[EDINBURG, July 27 - I will not sit idly by...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=4</link></item>
<item><title>Harrington: Three days with refugees in South Texas</title><description><![CDATA[McALLEN, July 31 - I arrived at the McAllen refugee camp at 6:30 Monday morning...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=5</link></item>
<item><title>O'Rourke: We can do better, Governor Perry</title><description><![CDATA[EL PASO, August 3 - As tens of thousands of children leave death and despair in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador and make the thousand-mile voyage to present themselves for refuge and asylum at the Texas-Mexico border, we can choose a number of ways to respond...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=6</link></item>
<item><title>Whitlock: LRGVDC's Regional Strategic Plan helps frame Valley's legislative agenda</title><description><![CDATA[WESLACO, August 5 - Advocates for improving the quality of life of veterans, colonia residents, the elderly, disabled and others will get the opportunity to formulate their message for the upcoming legislative session at a meeting on Wednesday...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=7</link></item>
<item><title>Lavariega Monforti: A Crisis on the Border?
</title><description><![CDATA[EDINBURG, August 5 - Debate about immigrants and immigration policy is one of the few constants in the United States...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=8</link></item>
<item><title>Mart�nez: Deferred Action has benefited more than 400,000 young Mexicans</title><description><![CDATA[McALLEN, August 20 - Last Friday, August 15th, marked two years since the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA) entered into force...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=9</link></item>
<item><title>Niederstrasser: Viva Vaqueros!</title><description><![CDATA[EDINBURG, November 9 - University of Texas�Pan American (UTPA) students and community are witnessing a vigorous debate about the new mascot for the new University of Texas�Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), to be inaugurated in the fall of 2015...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=25</link></item>
<item><title>L�pez: Vaquero � A Proud Tradition</title><description><![CDATA[SAN ANTONIO, November 9 - Chances are that if you have a Spanish last name and you originate in Texas, your earliest ancestors developed the vaquero way of life...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=26</link></item>
<item><title>L�pez: It�s Labor Day, Thanks to Unions</title><description><![CDATA[SAN ANTONIO, August 31 - The Industrial Revolution era began in England and the U...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=10</link></item>
<item><title>Guzman, Galindo: This Labor Day, let us reflect on unpaid labor in the Rio Grande Valley
</title><description><![CDATA[BROWNSVILLE, September 1 - As people enjoy time at the beach or barbequing for Labor Day, Fuerza del Valle Workers� Center urges society to reflect on the most vulnerable sectors of the modern day workforce, those who do not get paid for their work...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=11</link></item>
<item><title>Harrington: Honoring Labor struggles through ethical shopping and advocacy</title><description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, September 1 - Americans are pretty tone-deaf when it comes to Labor Day...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=12</link></item>
<item><title>Bailey: This is a new story we are writing together</title><description><![CDATA[I am sure most of you have heard the news that The University of Texas Board of Regents unanimously approved my recommendation last week to name the Vaqueros as the athletic nickname for UTRGV and to maintain the colors of UT Brownsville and UT Pan American � blue, green and orange � to represent our new university...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=27</link></item>
<item><title>Castro: Ahlenius is right about border region being trampled on</title><description><![CDATA[SAN ANTONIO, September 19 - I was heartened to read that the president and CEO of the McAllen Chamber of Commerce, Steve Ahlenius, discussed how the negative publicity and disparaging comments made by Texas leaders regarding our border communities have hurt the region...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=13</link></item>
<item><title>Mounce: Grand Debate on the Rio Grande</title><description><![CDATA[EDINBURG, September 21 - The Rio Grande Valley is now surely a �player� in the State of Texas� political future...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=14</link></item>
<item><title>Zabalgoitia: Energy reform strengthens NAFTA, U.S. partnership</title><description><![CDATA[MIAMI, September 29 - Twenty years ago, Canada, Mexico and the United States joined in the North American Free Trade Agreement...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=15</link></item>
<item><title>L�pez: Hispanic Heritage Month Honors Bi-lingual Texas</title><description><![CDATA[SAN ANTONIO, October 6 - On August 17, 1988, Public Law 100-402 was passed to establish Hispanic Heritage Month recognizing Hispanic immigrants� contributions that make our great U...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=16</link></item>
<item><title>Burns: Don�t forget Mexico and Canada</title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, D...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=17</link></item>
<item><title>Acevedo: Insights on transformation of Rio Grande Valley</title><description><![CDATA[TAOS, New Mexico, October 21 - There are many regions, throughout the globe, that have historically been isolated and insulated from the mainstream of the flow of resources to expand the quality of life of their populace...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=18</link></item>
<item><title>Perryman: Managing markets with a few powerful firms
</title><description><![CDATA[WACO, October 23 - For his work in the area of market power and regulation, Jean Tirole has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics (formally, �The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel�)...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=19</link></item>
<item><title>Allex/Cascos: Support Texas transportation
</title><description><![CDATA[BROWNSVILLE, October 25 - With a major push from community leaders statewide and a wide array of transportation advocates, the Texas Legislature ended a third special session last year with passage of a measure estimated to increase transportation funding by $1...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=20</link></item>
<item><title>Perryman: The U.S. Energy Workforce
</title><description><![CDATA[WACO, October 30 - The dramatic resurgence of the oil industry over the past few years has been a notable factor in the national economic recovery...]]></description><link>http://www.riograndeguardian.com/columns_story.asp?story_no=21</link></item>

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