Rio Grande Guardian's Podcast

About Rio Grande Guardian's Podcast

Official podcast for the Rio Grande Guardian, the first online newspaper to launch on the South Texas border, starting out in July, 2005. The Rio Grande Guardian has an excellent reputation for accurate and thorough news reporting, with a specialty for border business, legislative, political, healthcare, environment, and education issues.

Publisher

Mario Muñoz

Category

arts · business · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 May 2018

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 1,109 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026

   Remarks from the podium at Garver's ribbon-cutting ceremony

   Civil engineering firm Garver joined forces with local community and business leaders on Thursday to celebrate the grand opening of its new regional office — a $5 million investment expected to spur further economic development across the Rio Grande Valley. City and regional officials, including Harlingen Mayor Norma Sepulveda and Harlingen Economic Development Corporation (EDC) CEO Orlando Campos, gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house at the new 25,000-square-foot facility. T...

2. 

   14 Oct 2026

   Morales: On a good day, Democrats can flip the Texas House

   MCALLEN, Texas - Three members of the Texas Legislative Progressive Caucus held a “People’s Hearing” in McAllen on Sunday, October 11. It was held at the historic Cine El Rey. The group was on a fact-finding mission, looking to hear from community leaders and residents about the challenges the Rio Grande Valley currently faces and what issues they would like addressed in the next legislative session. TLPC has held similar hearings in other parts of Texas. The three mem...

3. 

   4 Oct 2026

   New AEP Texas president testifies before Senate committee

   Adrian Rodriguez, the new president of AEP Texas, testified before the Texas Senate Committee on Business & Commerce at the State Capitol in Austin in late July, 2026. Addressing state lawmakers, Rodriguez emphasized that rapid economic development across AEP Texas's 97,000-square-mile service territory in South and West Texas is pushing existing transmission infrastructure to capacity. "It's not just the Permian Basin that is experiencing growth," Rodriguez testified before the Senate co...

Who has been a guest on Rio Grande Guardian's Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Kerry Schwartz
• Ever Villarreal
• Jose Luis B Garza
• Heather Morgan
• Jaime R Longoria

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

9,824

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100

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Quality

67

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

75

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