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Adán Medrano, chef and food writer, savors a beef cheek taco at Vera s Backyard Bar-B-Que in Texas Rio Grande Valley.
While the taco long ago conquered America, some aficionados believe this ancient, handheld food reaches its pinnacle in the Texas-Mexico borderlands.
A book out last year
American Tacos: A History of the Taco Trail North of the Border directs taco lovers to Brownsville, the southernmost city in Texas. Brownsville gets a bad rap in the national news because it s often the dateline for stories about border barriers and desperate migrants. But there s a
deliciosaside to this laidback city. Among the palm trees, ox-bow lakes and 19th century buildings, the adventurous foodie can discover where the humble taco has been, and where it s headed.
Some secrets hide in plain sight.
We often hear that higher ed’s financial challenges lie primarily in cuts in per capita state aid and increases in:
Fixed costs (for salaries, benefits, maintenance and operations, and technology).
Expenditures on expensive emerging and growing fields of study (e.g., animation, gaming and new media, artificial intelligence, computer science, computational social science, data analytics and informatics, financial technology, human-computer interaction, machine learning, neuroscience, and sustainability).
Administrative and student support and student life expenditures.
Standards of care (the heightened expectations for facilities and services).
There’s obvious truth to this explanation. But there’s also reason to think that this explanation is partial, misleading and disingenuous.
Rio Grande Valley residents react to President Trump’s scheduled visit
The City of McAllen issues statement on President Trump’s visit
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Donna resident Rolando Vargas hopes tomorrow will play out peacefully.
“I hope that there’s nothing repeated from last week that happens tomorrow,” Vargas said.
The Mayor of McAllen released the following statement:
“It is not within my authority as mayor of the city of McAllen or the authority of the City of McAllen government to prevent President Trump from coming to our city. I understand that emotions are high on both sides, for or against, that they are peaceful with respect to our law enforcement personnel.”
“Depression of students is one of the challenges of e-learning”
Staff Correspondent
10th January, 2021 04:39:26
Speakers at a virtual programme said depression of students is one of the challenges of e-learning system at the universities amid the covid-19 pandemic.
Absence of physical access to the students to labs and libraries due to the pandemic are obstacles to engage in learning, they said
The speakers came up with the opinion while addressing at a webinar on E-Learning and the Future of Higher Education which was hosted by Faith Bangladesh on Saturday night, said a press release
A keynote paper was presented by Professor (Learning Technologies) Dr. Chris Dede of Harvard University at the virtual programme. Dr Badrul Khan, president of McWeadon Education, Dr Aftab Uddin, CEO of McWeadon Education, Dr Joseph Rene Corbil, professor of Educational Technology Teaching and Learning of University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and Dr Rgggie Smith, Chief Executive Officer of U