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On the up and up: Flat-rate cell phones add new options to telecommunications
McALLEN — Yajaira Hernandez couldn’t handle the extra charges that came with going over her cell phone minutes, or the pennies for each text message she received under her old T-Mobile phone plan. So, the 22-year-old Edinburg resident scrapped her...
Meat market: Exporter carves a savory niche in Mexico
McALLEN — The market for meat products in Mexico has never been better. Now, a McAllen-based company is helping to feed the country’s carnivorous appetite. After only six years of business, President Yadira Salinas has turned Compasa LLC into...
Exporters carves savory niche in Mexico market
McALLEN — The market for meat products in Mexico has never been better. Now, a McAllen-based company is helping to feed the country’s carnivorous appetite. After only six years of business, President Yadira Salinas has turned Compasa LLC into...
Hot commodity
P.F. Chang’s opened at Palms Crossing shopping center to long lines of hungry customers this week. Just a few weeks earlier, BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse drew similar crowds for its grand opening and has continued to serve the masses. The two...
It's all in the family
Julio Guerrero twists a steel handle, sliding the piece of steel ever so slightly back and forth over a milling machine. The piece he’s working needs a slight pitch, less than a half a millimeter from side to side. Carefully, he slides the...
Credit worries linger; stocks slide down slightly
NEW YORK — Wall Street ended a mildly erratic day slightly lower Thursday after anxiety about widening credit problems offset investor optimism about a $2 billion capital infusion into troubled mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. The market...
Riding the Marketcoaster
McALLEN — Bill Martin doesn’t have a degree in psychology, but the local financial planner says he’s been spending a lot of time in recent weeks trying to calm down investors panicking over the turbulent stock market. The advice is usually the same...
Shell Oil looks at South Texas for natural gas
McALLEN — Shell Oil Co. wants more natural gas and it’s looking at deep South Texas to get it. Royal Dutch Shell Group subsidiary Shell Western Exploration & Production Co. expects to drill two or three exploratory wells a year in Hidalgo, Starr,...
Tax preparers depend on hundreds of seasonal workers
McALLEN — For Hilda Mares, January through April is all about taxes. No, it doesn’t take Mares four months to find all her receipts and calculate deductions. April through May is tax season and Mares is a tax preparer for Electronic Tax Center...
Obra moving headquarters to Houston
McALLEN — Obra Homes will shed most of its jobs here as it moves its headquarters from McAllen to Houston, the company announced Friday. Obra, which grossed about $95 million in 2005 according to Builder Online, plans to cut all non-sales and building...
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