After fleeing Castro’s Cuba in the early 1960s, two branches of the Fernandez family settled in McAllen and started over again in the fabric business they knew so well. With little money for inventory, Jose Fernandez, who had owned La Elegante fabrics in Guantanamo, and his nephew Lazaro Fernandez Sr. opened Rio Bravo selling fabric remnants. Fifty years later, the second generation of the Fernandez families carries an in-depth inventory…

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Roy Sheneman is Human Resources Manager for Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc. and is pursuing a PhD in Leadership Studies with an element on generational differences in the workplace. He talked with Valley Business Report’s editor about adapting to working with people who are your grandson’s age or the age of your grandmother. Q Why is the current generational mix different? A For the first time in history, we have four…

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Weslaco’s Mid-Valley Airport has secured the first new landing rights general aviation customs processing center that Customs and Border Protection has opened on the U.S.-Mexico border in 40 years. Because of its proximity to the Progreso International Bridge Port of Entry and the CBP agents stationed there, the airport’s Federal Inspection Services (FIS) processing center now offers “on-call” landing rights to private and charter flights arriving from Mexico. “We wanted…

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