Staff Writer
McALLEN, Texas - This town, the City of Palms, long has been seen as the social and economic jewel of the Rio Grande Valley. In a part of the country where life is measured by the brand of automobile you drive and just how often you shine your boots, it is easy to see why McAllen is King of The Valley Hill. Easily-infuenced residents elsewhere in the RGV gleefully look up to McAllen, because their lot in life can be found on the bottom rungs of the status ladder.
Now comes the independent research firm Brookings Institute. The Washington, D.C.-based think tank has released yet another of its popular socio-political lists, this one about which cities in America count the least number of residents with a 4-year college degree.
McAllen, lovely, well-dressed McAllen is up there, counting only 15.1 percent of its citizens walking around with bachelors degrees. At the top of the list is Scranton, Pa. and its 21%. El Paso out west is second with 19.6%. Brookings is headed by Strobe Talbot, a former Deputy Secretary of State in the Bill Clinton Administration. Its focus is in-depth study of all things to do with society in America.
According to its website, "Brookings is proud to be consistently ranked as the most influential, most quoted and most trusted think tank."
Well, who knows? There are days when I fully believe McAllen is utterly stupid and in need of higher education. Drivers moving up and down busy N. 10th Street drive as if just out of prison, as if they know the Rapture is only seconds away. There are smart people in town. The mayor - one Richard Cortez - is a college graduate, yep. The chief of police is a college grad, as is the editor of the newspaper.
And we know the mayor of Harlingen - one Chris Boswell - is a college graduate.
As for the mayor of Brownsville, well...
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6 comments:
The mayor from Brownsville is a former CAMARONERO, Patricio Auhamda. He was tried for depositing a check but was found not guilty.
Now the bum was caught dwi. A real bummer.
(94 Crooked Doctors & Nurses Arrested...)
Them cargo pants shore do fit nicely on that one FBI agent. MMM, mighty nice.
ralph
It really doen't matter in how many degreed " LEADERS " we have in the Rancho Grande Valley... Unfortunally, for most of the people outside of the R.G.V., we are just another extention of Northern Mexico; which was / is still so Feral, poor and violent.
Read / log into people from ARIDOAMERICA / LA RAZA MALDITA [ Northern Mexico / Southwest U.S.A. ]-- Its Habitants are descendants from a group of Aztecs outcasts named THE CHICHIMECAS, a kind of Cast outs people: uncultured, Feral and living as Nomads. The Spanish Crown, When Mexico was La Nueva Espana --- The Mexican Govertnment, back then, Tried to get them under control. but Couldn't... It Took another 300 years or so, Until Don Jose de Escandon , a Spanish Misionary, and His well skilled comquistadores took over their land.
Now, we know The rest of the story..!!!
did you check the percentage for Harlingen and Brownsville...they are alot lower than McAllen so yeah i think the Valley in general has a very low rate of college grads. But by the numbers McAllen still has the highest percentage with a college degree.
www.city-data.com
Are you talking about the pants or the agent??? Yes, they do look very nice, both the pants and the agent.
(Yes, they do look very nice, both the pants and the agent.)
It's just that if I had a pair of pants that looked like that on me, I would be in charge of the whole show.
ralphy
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