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BLOG: PROPERTY TAX WOES DOG BISD TRUSTEE MINERVA PENA
By Duardo Paz-MartinezEditor of The AvengerBROWNSVILLE, Texas – Her numerous campaign posters say incumbent Brownsville Independent School District Trustee Minerva M. Pena is for education. It does not...
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WHAT'S GILBERT HINOJOSA UP NOW AT RIO HONDO ISD?
By David YatesSE TexasRecordRIO HONDO – Mostyn Law and Gilberto Hinojosa will reap 40 percent of the $1.5 million settlement Rio Hondo ISD obtained from its Hurricane Dolly suit – a percentage five...
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ERASMOGATE: COPS MOVE IN, CHEEZ BLAMES "OPPONENTS"
By Juan MontoyaCall it a tempest in a teapot, and rather large one at that, but the fur is flying after Erasmo Castro (the Head Cheez) was prevented from campaigning in front of the Central Public...
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PHOTO ID NOT NECESSARY; OTHER OPTIONS FOR VOTERS
By Carlos CascosTexas Secretry of StateThe Office of the Texas Secretary of State reminds voters who do not possess and cannot reasonably obtain a form of approved photo ID that they now have...
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NOT A GOOD WAY TO START THE DAY ON RINGGOLD
(Ed.'s Note: One of our eight readers sent us this unusual photo of a car that took a swan dive into a hole on Ringgold Street where extensive road construction in being performed by the City of...
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WHOSE ROAD IS IT? THE CITY'S, STATE'S, OR THE PEOPLE'S?
By Juan MontoyaIn what has heretofore been a lax attitude toward candidates and their supporters campaigning on the sidewalks and state-right-of way on Central Boulevard in front of the public library...
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"TRIAL BY FIRED": AN ACADEMIC'S ACCOUNT OF THE RED SCARE
"When the Red Scare tore across campus in the 1950s, three University of Michigaqn faculty members were hauled to an anti-Communist hearing. Math instructor Chandler Davis chose a gutsy legal defense,...
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WHOSE BRIGHT IDEA WAS IT TO PAVE ELIZABETH ST. ON SATURDAY, THE BUSIEST DAY...
(Ed.'s Note: As if Cyclobia – the late afternoon weekend exercise in revitalization of the downtown area by closing the streets and having suburbanites ride around in expensive bikes – wasn't bad...
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CATY: "THEY" THROW THE STONE, AND HIDE THEIR HAND...
In my past ad, I confirmed that the Brownsville Taxpayers PAC and its invisible financial supporters were behind the mass mailings against me in my reelection for Place 5 on the board of the...
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QUE QUE? ASI NO SE ESPELEA "CHEMICALS," O SI?
(Ed.'s Note: If you go to the City of Brownsville Landfill the staff there gives you a ticket to direct you to the proper place to throw your brush. Now, one of our seven readers (the eighth is on sick...
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ARE SAENZ AND WOOD DEFECTING THE DEMOS FOR CORTEZ?
(Ed.'s Note: Is one of our readers reading too much into this Facebook post from Ricardo Montana, of Montana's Shoe Repair that indicates that both Cameron County District Attorney and Brownsville...
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ERASMO CASTRO'S BISD BOARD BID MARRED BY NEWSPAPER AD
By Juan MontoyaIt is no secret that in the past we have chronicled the saga of Erasmo Castro as he built himself up via social media into the Head Cheez of Brownsville Cheezmeh.Erasmo, along with...
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TSC'S DR. GARCIA ASKED SACS TO PULL TSC ACCREDITATION?
By Juan MontoyaWe had heard of a letter sent by Texas Southmost College trustee Dr. Rey Garcia to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, TSC's accrediting body where he is said to have asked...
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TAX OFFICE STAFF WINS RRUNRRUN'S HALLOWEEN CONTEST
By Juan MontoyaThe zany crew over at the Cameron County Tax Assessor-Collector's Office won El Rrun-Rrun's 1st Annual Halloween Costume Contest with this apropos gang photo of them dressed as Cameron...
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TRO STOPS TSC FROM INSURING AGAINST WINDSTORM, HAIL
By Juan MontoyaThe Texas Southmost College board of trustees special meting scheduled for noon today was halted by a Temporary Restraining Order, sources say.The TRO was obtained by Greg Kelment, of...
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ZENDEJAS, BISD LEGAL COUNSEL MEDDLE IN BOARD ELECTION: BALTAZAR SALAZAR...
By Juan MontoyaIn a fashion unprecedented in previous Brownsville Independent School District elections, sources at the district say that superintendent Esperanza Zendejas and board counsel Baltazar...
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DIA DE LOS MUERTOS MEDLEY OF SHORT STORIES
OUR HERO'S CONVERSATION WITH A GHOST By Juan MontoyaNext time you're in downtown Brownsville and find yourself near the corner of Madison Street and 14th Street, look at the house on the northeast...
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WE WONDERED ABOUT IT YEARS AGO, FEDS WONDERING NOW
(Back a few years ago we asked whether the coming of the LNG plants just a few miles up the beach from the then-proposed SpaceX launch site would constitute a danger. At the time, we were considered...
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HUNT IS ON FOR BTPAC'S PHANTOM CAMPAIGN TREASURER
By Juan MontoyaLawyers with the Texas Ethics Commission, investigators with the U.S. Postal Service and the board of discipline of the Texas State Bar would dearly love to meet Juan Leal Flores.All...
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RUDDERLESS, PUBLICLY-SUBSIDIZED AND ACCOUNTABLE TO NO ONE, UNELECTED UNITED...
By Jim BartonBrownsville Observer BlogMoving tentatively from Fred Rusteberg's leadership into Irv Downing's more theoretical focus, the United Brownsville Coordinating Board seems somehow more...
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