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Reyna Grande Comes to Frisco

IMAGE: Author Reyna Grande during book signing at Collin County Community College, Frisco, Texas. September 25, 2018. NOTE: The following post was originally published on September 26, 2018, on my blog "The Mexican Next Door," which is no longer available. Here it is again. Sometimes you get the unexpected. That happened on Tuesday night, September 25th, at the Collin College Conference Center in Frisco, Texas, during a Hispanic Heritage Month event that featured Reyna Grande.…
Pedro Chavez
February 28, 2023
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THE WEEK IN REVIEW

THE WEEK IN REVIEW October 1, 2021 A proposal is coming to protect DACA beneficiaries… President Biden and his administration are taking steps to protect some 700,000 DACA recipients, the undocumented residents brought to the United States as children. A proposed rule is to be published this coming Tuesday, which would take effect after a 60-day comment period. Great news for those young Americans, also called Dreamers, who have been riding a politically manipulated roller…
Pedro Chavez
October 1, 2021
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A Ballad of Love and Glory, the Book

Some stories need to be told, even if they’re just a fiction take on the original tale, the one that was also fabricated by the usual suspects, you know, by the historians in charge of supposedly telling it like it is. Reyna Grande’s A Ballad of Love and Glory is one of those fictional takes on a historical time in our past that will help correct a faulted script and bring some light into the…
Pedro Chavez
September 29, 2021
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The Week in Review

September 24, 2021 SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience is back… It landed off the coast of Cape Cañaveral during the early night, on September 18. It marked the end of the Inspiration4 mission, a private space flight with four rich, really rich civilians on board that orbited the earth for three days without an aircraft commander. Yikes. It was a fundraising effort we are told. But, but, and adding an Ummm to it, me thinks it’s…
Pedro Chavez
September 24, 2021