In the Rio Grande valley cotton farmers worried that the lack of sunshine would prevent this year's crop from flowering.
Wayne Mad Ants, the Tulsa 66ers host the Texas Legends, and the Bakersfield Jam open against the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.
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Illegal immigrants are choosing instead to cross the border in Arizona and the wilder parts of the lower Rio Grande valley.
The Rio Grande Valley, at the southern tip of Texas, was once a dirt-poor region of few hopes where voting was aggressively regimented.
The Rio Grande Valley not only wants to woo big companies, but to encourage entrepreneurs like Ledesma who employs 12 people to start businesses here.
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The Heat actually had a player on its roster last season, Terrel Harris, who had a brief stint with the D-League's Rio Grande Valley Vipers.
Like so many other regions in the US, the Rio Grande Valley, a 100 mile stretch of southeastern Texas along the Mexican border is going through a rebranding.
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In the Rio Grande Valley, illegal border crossers from countries other than Mexico made up the majority of the increase in arrests, the Border Patrol has said previously.
They face each other in back-to-back games in the the NBA Development League this weekend for the first time, Finch with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers and Nurse with the Iowa Energy.
If you're a Democrat voting tomorrow in Austin, Dallas, or Houston, your vote is going to count more than if you're a Democrat voting in El Paso or the Rio Grande Valley or San Antonio.
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