TAMIU’s Bridge: a confluence of faculty & student talent;
check out Dr. Carolyn Waters' published 20-year window of Webb County growth

Kudos, kudos, y saludos to Texas A&M International University’s student newspaper The Bridge. The confluence of the talents of faculty sponsors Paty L. Cantu and Randy Koch, student editor Paul Martinez, designer Emilio Rabago, and writers like Patsy Aguirre have given the December 2002 issue of The Bridge a clean, sharp profile and reinvented utility as a venue for opinion and discussion of relevant world and campus issues. The Bridge is behaving exactly as a newspaper should, challenging the status quo and asking for citizen participation. Good work, bold work, as evidenced in a story entitled "We're queer, we're here," about the university's new Gay/Straight Alliance. The December issue offered a good mix of opinion and news stories, including those pulled from U-Wire, the college news service. Good luck!
A&M International social sciences professor Dr. Carol Waters, coordinator of the Master of Public Administration program and acting chair of the Department of Social Sciences, has published such a well-executed overview of the recent history of Webb County and Webb County government. The very well written text of Webb County: Evolution and Change 1980-2000, Visions of the Future, Reflections of the Past chronicles the manner in which County government has changed administratively to address unprecedented economic and population growth. The book is an easy-to-navigate guide for how county government works.
Our good friend in print Goyo Lopez has moved from the City of Laredo Parks & Rec Department to the Diocese of Laredo, for whom he will write and edit diocesan news for La Fe, the upbeat quarterly magazine for parishioners. Goyo will also take pictures throughout the diocese.
The big hair works front-on, sort of, but not in profile. That's what we want all our big-haired friends at KGNS to know.
It's adios to Tim Cyr, the KGNS sports anchor, who was an on-and-off the air pro. The endearment of he to Laredo and Laredo to him was quick. The affable and well-spoken anchor will be missed.
There are some new faces at KGNS, including Steve Parker, who comes from Dallas to be the weekend anchor.
Dan Seibelman of Tuscon joins the station as the new sports anchor.
News reporter Edna Malaga from San Diego, CA will join the KGNS staff just after the new year.
Station manager Mary Nell Sanchez reports an opening for a reporter. Stay tuned for a 30-minute Christmas Day program that features local school choirs.
Check out the WBCA's exciting and fast-paced web site at www.wbcalaredo.org, which was built by LareDOS. It's a beauty and very reflective of the momentum the annual celebration has gained.
Like a business card is going to tell you if someone is really who they say they are. When the government goes into I-spy/You-spy/We-spy overdrive and starts taking names and numbers of suspected subversives, this zealous C. L. Milton Elementary administrator will be there with the goods. When he didn't fall for the truth -- that the two "shady" individuals in a pickup with cow manure on the tires and running boards publish a newspaper called LareDOS and were taking pictures for a contractor who is a client -- he asked them to produce a business card. When the two ruffians, LareDOS publisher María Eugenia Guerra and editor Tom Moore, couldn't produce a business card between them, he asked for something with their name on it. Guerra offered a copy of LareDOS onto which Moore wrote the company's telephone number. As Guerra and Moore returned to their offices on Houston Street, the zealot was on the phone with LareDOS reporter Sandra Iruegas asking for a "supervisor" to confirm the identities of Guerra and Moore. Ironically, Guerra and Moore had a day earlier established approved access to the campuses through the LISD communications office, which had informed campus principals of the visit.