Carolina Cuellar
RGV Reportercarolina@tpr.org
Carolina Cuellar reports for Texas Public Radio from the city of McAllen where she covers business and border issues. Her position is made possible by Report For America — a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
A scientist-turned-journalist, she worked on the science desk at KQED, for various science news outlets, and has written about dog DNA criminal forensics and the largest fire in Santa Cruz County history, the CZU Lightning Complex wildfire that started in August 2020. Her work has appeared in ABCNews, The Mercury News, and science sites such as Inside Science and Mongabay.
Cuellar, a first-generation college graduate, holds a master’s degree in science communication and a bachelor’s in molecular, cellular and developmental biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was born in Bogotá, Colombia and grew up in Stockton, California after emigrating to the United States.
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Democrat Vincente Gonzalez has been elected to represent Texas 34th congressional district after receiving 10,000 more votes than incumbent Mayra Flores.
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A first-person account by Texas Public Radio's Carolina Cuellar regarding events that occurred at the October Hidalgo County GOP County Executive Committee Meeting.
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El comité destinado a ayudar a las colonias del sur de Texas no se formó, no hay ningún reporte.
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For more than a year, state legislators have failed to follow a mandate to form a committee meant to address the needs of South Texas colonias.
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Aron Lionel Peña III, a former district director for Congresswoman Mayra Flores’ congressional office and Texas GOP staffer, has been accused of sexual harassment from multiple women — including some who work in GOP organizations and campaigns. Peña denies the allegations.
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The Republican Party of Texas has responded to allegations that a former staffer for Congresswoman Mayra Flores, Aron Peña, has been accused of repeated sexual harassment of staff members.
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Texas’ trigger ban is in effect, formalizing what Rio Grande Valley advocates already knew — abortion is illegal. But they say they're not done fighting.
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Researchers and city officials see reclaiming water as the long-term solution to future shortages in the Rio Grande Valley but a regional chair said it's not that simple.
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A U.S. Customs and Border Protection investigation found several faults in the U.S. Border Patrol’s handling of last September’s arrival of tens of thousands of Haitians at the Del Rio border but no evidence of whipping.
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El fallo final de la Corte Suprema se espera para este verano y Maggie teme que un mundo posterior a Roe una vez más lleve a las personas a buscar abortos peligrosos e ilegales, o se vean obligadas a continuar con un embarazo no deseado.