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WILL GBIC DENY KEPPEL-AMFELS 700 NEW-JOBS INCENTIVES?
By Juan MontoyaAt tonight's meeting of the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation, the five-member board will be asked to provide the Kepel-Amfels which has been employing local workers for the...
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AMFELS STAYS: JESS GRUDGINGLY SAYS SI TO 700 NEW JOBS
By Juan MontoyaDespite the grudging acquiescence of the chairman of the five-member board of the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation to go along with the other four, the GBIC agreed to provide...
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AFTER A LULL IN 2015, BORDER APPREHENSIONS UP IN 2016
By Juan AguilarThe Texas Tribune The number of families that were apprehended or turned themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley swelled by 90 percent during the...
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WHILE DA MAYOR IS FEASTING, MCALLEN STEALS HERMANITA
"Nations and women are not forgiven the unguarded hour in which the first adventurer who came along could violate them." The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Karl Marx 1852By Juan MontoyaWell,...
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DE COSS SUPPORTERS BUSY LITTLE BEAVERS AT WORK
VOTE FOR RENE DE COSS: JUSTICE YOU CAN COUNT ONGiven the dissatisfaction the people have expressed at recent verdicts in a handful of criminal cases involving homicides and aggravated crimes, there is...
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PIC FROM VILLARREAL-BENAVIDES WEDDING IN PORTUGAL
Ed.'s Note: In this photo taken before city commissioner John Villarreal and Lynette Benavides took their wedding vows in Sintra, Portugal, some 5,022 miles away across the Atlantic Ocean. At far left,...
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SAN BENE BOYS WERE HEROES IN BLOODY ITALIAN CAMPAIGN
Special to El Rrun-RrunIt was September 9, 1943 when the original American landings were made in Italy.Embedded in archives of the Brownsville Herald of 1944 the headlines read, “Salerno Spearheaded by...
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WHEN WILL OTIS TAKE OFF THE GLOVES ON PHIL COWEN?
By Juan MontoyaAfter nearly a month of bearing attacks by opponent Phillip Cowen on the pages of the local daily where he was accused of everything from losing "$54 million" in five years, class sizes...
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"THEY" THROW THE STONE, THEN HIDE THEIR HAND
Special to El Rrun-RrunWhere did these mass-mailed pieces of half-truths and hateful allegations against me come from?They came from the Brownsville Taxpayers Political Action Committee, an invisible...
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HOMER'S GREEK DAWNS HAVE NOTHING ON S. TEXAS MORNINGS
(Ed.'s Note: Anyone who's had to read the Iliad or other works by Homer remembers reading about the "rosy fingered dawn." The Greek poets sang the npraises of the morning. To them, a pink sunrise...
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EARLY VOTING ON: CANDIDATES, COUNTRY'S FATE AT STAKE
(Ed.'s Note: This was the scene this morning the Cameron County Courthouse on Harrison Street as early voting in the 2016 general election got under way. Voters seem aware that they are participating...
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ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, SAENZ IS OUT TO BEAT YZAGUIRRE
By Juan MontoyaStill smarting from the decision by visiting Judge Manuel Bañales to allow indicted Cameron County Tax Assessor-Collector Tony Yzaguirre have his trial in Corpus Christi instead of in...
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A TRAIL OF LIES REVEALED IN THE YZAGUIRRE VENUE TRIAL
(Ed.'s Note: Often, when the conventional mainstream media reports on the legal travails of an elected official, they have a habit of focusing on the personal side of the news such as how the defendant...
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LA CHISQUIDA GOWEN TO MARATHONERS: DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO
By Juan MontoyaEver listen in on some of our city and county commission meetings where some elected local official will complain about drivers using the bike lane as a right turn lane making it...
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A DEFIANT CHISQUIADA GOWEN: "WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED."
By Juan MontoyaApparently miffed that the photo of her car blocking the bike lanes and the public sidewalk abutting her home near the corner of Anacua and Retama streets during this Sunday's Historic...
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DOES THE FEZ KNOW WHERE HE IS, OR WHO JESSICA IS?
By Juan MontoyaSomeone pulled Wilmer Valderrama's leg on his recent visit to Brownsville.You remember him from That 70s Show where he is the obligatory ethnic who is the butt of all the jokes.They took...
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WHAT HAPPENED IN PORTUGAL, DIDN'T STAY IN PORTUGAL
(Ed.'s Note: Well, it's good to see that our luminaries from little ol' Browntown painted Sintra, Portugal brown when they attended the commissioner John Villarreal-Lynette Benavides wedding. A whole...
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DE COSS SUPPORTERS, ALL OTHERS BANNED FROM LIBRARY
(Ed.'s Note: Early today, the second day of early voting, the Brownsville Police Dept. arrived at the front and rear of the Central Public Library and ordered all supporters of all the candidates to...
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SAY ISN'T PAT AHUMADA TEXTING WHILE HE IS DRIVING?
(Ed.'s Note: Anyone who looks at this selfie taken by former mayor Pat Ahumada's buddy riding shotgun can readily see that Pat is busy texting as they ride along in traffic. Now, we're not fussbudgets...
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TSC REDEFINES ITSELF; OP 10.33 HERNANDEZ LOOKS TO TSTC
By Juan MontoyaSources close to Mike Hernandez, the founder and main mover behind the OP 10.33 movement, say that as a result of the negative reception to his drive to improve the vocational offerings...
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