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Tag: street lights

Street light installation finally begins as colonia residents celebrate victory

Housing, Local issues•by •Posted January 19, 2016

Above: Residents of Colonia Goolie Meadows enjoy the illumination provided by their new street lights. Last week marked another milestone in…

Tags: ARISE, Colonias, LUPE, Rio Grande Valley, street lights

Colonia organizations win groundbreaking street lighting victory in Hidalgo County

Local issues•by •Posted November 18, 2015

On November 10, Hidalgo County Commissioners unanimously approved a plan to begin bringing street lights into the colonias. Our partners at…

Tags: ARISE, Colonias, Hidalgo County, LUPE, Rio Grande Valley, street lights, Texas Legislature

Public Radio International highlights housing issues in the Rio Grande Valley

Disaster Recovery, National issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted April 14, 2015

Public Radio International reporter (and former TxLIHIS staff member) Alina Simone spent some time in the Rio Grande Valley last month…

Tags: Colonias, Disaster recovery, Lighting, media, RAPIDO, Rio Grande Valley, street lights

Packed house demands colonia streetlight program in the Rio Grande Valley

Local issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted January 19, 2015

Last Thursday our partners in the Rio Grande Valley, La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) and A Resource In Serving…

Tags: ARISE, Colonias, LUPE, Rio Grande Valley, street lights

TX colonia residents would be thankful if county officials let them have the things others take for granted

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 27, 2013

Streetlights and storm sewers… This Thanksgiving there not many people are thinking about how grateful they are for their streetlights and…

Tags: Colonias, drainage, Hidalgo County, LUPE, Rio Grande Valley, street lights
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