MISSION — Texas Transportation Commissioner Alex Meade told a story at Tuesday’s RGV Partnership Infrastructure Summit that he’d heard from former State Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. at some point.
Lucio’s story went that years ago a Rio Grande Valley delegation arrived in Austin in search of funding for something or another.
They appealed to Texas Lieutenant Gov. Bob Bullock, who seemed receptive and asked only for the delegation to tell him who would lead on planning for the funding.
The delegation couldn’t do it.
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Matt Wilson
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Matt Wilson is a Hidalgo County–based freelance reporter and contributor to the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal. He previously covered education and general assignment for The Monitor, frequently writing about the dramatic ways business changed during the coronavirus pandemic. Before that he worked as a reporter in rural Central Texas where he covered everything from house fires to school board meetings.
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