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30 Nov 2010, 12:46 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
New York City and its environs ranked second in crime reduction; the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission area saw the sixth largest crime drop.Grand jury considers Dallas constable allegations The special prosecutor investigating corruption allegations against Dallas constables took allegations to a grand jury that could result in indictments as early as Wednesday.'Shock probation' granted in DWI death caseA rare punishment handed out in a sad Harris County case. [read post]
15 Nov 2010, 8:29 pm by Mark Bennett
But hellish third-world backwater Laredo has ‘em, as do McAllen, Harlingen and Rochester. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 8:03 am
Maybe people in McAllen were more obese than in other cities or had higher rates of hypertension? [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 9:41 pm by Susan I. Nelson
But fewer residents of those cities feel their neighborhoods are as safe as those elsewhere in the U.S: just 76 percent in El Paso, 66 percent in McAllen, 58 percent in Laredo and 44 percent in Brownsville. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 7:05 am by Dr. Shezad Malik
Our law firm’s principal office is in Southlake, Texas, but we represent people across Texas, for personal injury and wrongful death claims, in cities and areas including the following: Abilene, Albany, Alice, Alpine, Amarillo, Angleton, Arlington, Austin, Bay City, Baytown, Beaumont, Benavides, Big Spring, Boerne, Bonham, Bowie, Brazoria, Brownsville, Brownwood, Bryan, Buffalo, Carthage, Centerville, Childress, Clarksville, Cleburne, College Station, Commerce, Conroe,… [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 6:37 pm by Dr. Shezad Malik
Our law firm’s principal office is in Southlake, Texas, but we represent people across Texas, for personal injury and wrongful death claims, in cities and areas including the following: Abilene, Albany, Alice, Alpine, Amarillo, Angleton, Arlington, Austin, Bay City, Baytown, Beaumont, Benavides, Big Spring, Boerne, Bonham, Bowie, Brazoria, Brownsville, Brownwood, Bryan, Buffalo, Carthage, Centerville, Childress, Clarksville, Cleburne, College Station, Commerce, Conroe,… [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 12:01 am
He concluded that the difference between the two cities is that medical care providers in El Paso (the low-cost city) have not yet begun to respond to the economic incentives of the fee-for-service model, in which providers are reimbursed for "doing things to people," not for making them healthier.Almost as a throwaway, I mentioned in my Jotwell piece Gawande's comment that McAllen is the second-highest-cost city in the country, and that Miami is… [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 10:49 pm
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4 Jun 2010, 7:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The most common border crossings for cash smugglers are in San Diego, Nogales, Arizona, and the Texas cities of McAllen, Laredo and Brownsville, according to the report.One often hears talk of "money laundering" by drug cartels, but that term is a misnomer for most of this activity. [read post]
2 Apr 2010, 12:42 pm by Steven Taber
The Federal Aviation Administration will oversee the grant distribution, which city officials have been looking for for several months. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 5:55 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But most folks from the region didn't benefit - especially in the urban areas where most people live.Not only was Governor Perry's border-security money basically shoveled down a hole, the wasted dollars and years represent an even more significant opportunity cost, fiddling away time and resources on pork-barrel politics while a crisis mounted in Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, and Reynosa (sister cities across the river from El Paso, Laredo and McAllen). [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 9:59 am
Time and again, Gawande confronts doctors who were shocked to discover that McAllen was so much more expensive than other cities. [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 9:12 am
  A now famous article in The New Yorker magazine by surgeon Atul Gawande documented the out-of-control health care costs in McAllen, Texas, but praised the work of the Mayo Clinic as "among the highest-quality, lowest-cost health care systems in the country. [read post]
16 Nov 2009, 7:47 am by Narendra Ghosh
Gawande found that demographic differences (such as race, ethnicity, poverty and age) could not explain why costs are so high in McAllen: per capita Medicare costs in El Paso, a city with virtually the same demographics as McAllen, are much lower. [read post]
1 Nov 2009, 8:12 pm
The PRBC is “consumer reporting agency and repository that enables consumers and small businesses to build a credit file and score, based on their history of making rent, utility, phone and other recurring bill payments” that are used to demonstrate the consumers creditworthiness.[9] The Financial education program is a customized instructional plan designed to satisfy the actual needs of financial service center customers.[10]  These three components comprise a… [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 6:55 am
Among the findings: * McAllen, Texas has the highest percentage of people age 5 and older who speak a language other than English at home... [read post]
5 Oct 2009, 9:41 am
Sunday's edition of the Corsicana Daily Sun carried "City report on arson probe," by Janet Jacobs. [read post]
18 Aug 2009, 12:27 pm
One of the most expensive health-care markets in the country is the Texas city of McAllen. [read post]