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El Periodico USA Staff Community News June 27, 2025

Secretary of State Nelson Selects Ballot Order for Constitutional Amendment Election

AUSTIN — Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson today drew the ballot order for the 17 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution.
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El Periodico USA Staff Community News June 27, 2025

City of Houston Announces Plan to Dedicate HUD Disaster Recovery Funds Toward Protecting Critical Infrastructure

Houston’s Power Protection Initiative (PPI) Will Help Ensure Continuity of Essential Services for Houston and the Region WASHINGTON – U.S. Department
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El Periodico USA Staff Awards June 27, 2025

STHS Edinburg nominated in Soliant’s Most Beautiful Hospitals in the U.S.

STHS Edinburg is nominated in Soliant’s Most Beautiful Hospitals in the U.S. contest, the only Rio Grande Valley hospital nominated
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El Periodico USA Staff Community News June 26, 2025

House Republicans Advance Bigoted Homeland Security Spending Spree

Nicolae Viorel Butler, Migrant Insider WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee advanced the Fiscal Year 2026 Homeland Security
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El Periodico USA Staff Community News June 26, 2025

Self-Inflicted Damage: Mass Deportation Economically Devastating and Politically Unpopular

Access online version of this release HERE Washington, DC — As the Donald Trump/Stephen Miller assault on immigrant communities, our economy
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El Periodico USA Staff Community News June 26, 2025

Rural Americans more likely to live with chronic pain than urban peers, UT-Arlington study finds

By Carlos Nogueras Ramos, The Texas Tribune “Rural Americans more likely to live with chronic pain than urban peers, UT-Arlington
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El Periodico USA Staff Community News June 26, 2025

Texas is illegally keeping people with disabilities in nursing homes, federal judge rules

By Stephen Simpson, The Texas Tribune “Texas is illegally keeping people with disabilities in nursing homes, federal judge rules” was
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El Periodico USA Staff Awards June 26, 2025

Mission Regional 1st in Hidalgo County to be Re-Accredited as a Geriatric Emergency Department

MISSION, June 2025 – Mission Regional Medical Center has become the first hospital in  Hidalgo County to be re-accredited as
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El Periodico USA Staff Community News June 26, 2025

Price Increase in Expedited U.S. Passport Delivery Service

Price change goes into effect June 27, 2025 for return overnight delivery  A price increase by the U.S. Department of
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El Periodico USA Staff Community News June 26, 2025

Woman Loses Pregnancy at ICE Detention

Incident Overview Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, a 38-year-old immigrant from Guatemala, was arrested by ICE in Lenoir City, Tennessee, in mid-March
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