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HISPANIC TRAILBLAZER DIES IN AUSTIN AT 84
By Tony CantuThe PatchAUSTIN, TEXAS — Gustavo L. "Gus" Garcia, the trailblazing first elected Hispanic mayor of Austin distinguished by a 40-year career in civic service — died early Monday at the age...
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U.S. ATTORNEY POURING OVER SOUTHWEST KEY'S FINANCING
By Rebecca R. Ruiz, Nicholas Kulish and Kim BarkerThe New York TimesThe Justice Department is investigating possible misuse of federal money by Southwest Key Programs, the nation’s largest operator of...
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THE FAJITA MORAL: CRIME DOES PAY FOR AUDITOR, BUYERS
By Juan MontoyaFor nine years Gilberto Escamilla, 53, had Labatt Food Service in Harlingen deliver monthly orders of 800 pounds of fajitas to the Darrel B. Hester Juvenile Detention Center.In those...
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PCT. 2 GETS A NEW WAREHOUSE FOR COUNTY ROAD CREW
(Ed.'s Note: With only days before Cameron County Pct. 2 Commissioner Alex Dominguez is scheduled to be sworn in as the District 37 Texas Representative in Austin, the commissioners court held a ribbon...
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LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS: CHUCK AND RICK GAB AWAY
By Juan MontoyaThe British say gentlemen don't read other people's mail. Well, in the City of Brownsville there is a lack of that civility.What would happen, say, if inside information of the dynamics...
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THE BEST X-MAS EVER: SOROLA REUNITES MOTHER AND CHILD
By Juan MontoyaBack in December 2007 – about two weeks before Christmas – Brownsville attorney Louis Sorola was making his his rounds at the courthouse rounds and walked into District Judge Migdalia...
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A MERRY CHRISTMAS 2018 FROM BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, US of A
(Ed.'s Note: Sometimes as we drive around town we tend to forget the unique character of our city. At a time when snowdrifts are piling up on streets in Midwest and subfreezing winds beat the Plains,...
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END OF AN ERA: WILLIE GARZA, BORDER LOUNGE OWNER, DIES
Special toEl Run-RrunOn 14th Street in Brownsville's strip of blue-collar beer joints, Guillermo “Willie” Garza Jr., and his Border Lounge were one of the best-known and popular bars around.Willie was...
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POIGNANT ROADSIDE MEMORIAL W-WREATHS AND ORNAMENTS
By Juan MontoyaIt's been almost 13 years since the March 2006 crash at the intersection of Dana Road and FM 802 that took three lives in full bloom.The crash. according to first responders, was...
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SUBTLE COST DIFFERENCES IN ONE BORDER TOWN
By Juan MontoyaEver notice that prices for things like gasoline or foodstuffs like chicken differ markedly depending on what part of town you're in?This Christmas season we had the opportunity to go...
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SECOND GUATEMALAN CHILD DIES WHILE IN BP CUSTODY
(CNN)An 8-year-old Guatemalan boy died late Christmas Eve in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection, the agency said, the second Guatemalan child to die in the agency's custody this month.Rep....
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THEY'RE BAAACK! CHRONIC POTHOLES SPROUT ON ROOSEVELT
(Ed.'s Note: Just as we predicted it would happen, the potholes City of Brownsville Public Works patched Dec. 6 weeks after rains fell on the city in November, the holes on the stretch of Roosevelt...
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CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST OVER SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE
By Mark Reagan Brownsville Herald Staff WriterThree Matamoros residents and a Brownsville resident are suing the City of Brownsville and the organizers of a binational race in March where a metal...
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LOS FRESNOS GUS GARZA, OF SPANKING INFAMY, DIES
Special to El Rrun-RrunWord has reached us that Gustavo "Gus" Garza, the former Los Fresnos Justice of the Peace who drew national attention in 2008 when he ordered a spanking as punishment for a girl...
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STILL SQUIRMING, MR. AMIGO BUNCH PROTESTS TOO MUCH
By Juan MontoyaStill defending their selection of a rich guy's son-in-law as Mr. Amigo 2018 members of the organization have defended the selection in the face of widespread disapproval in social...
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AT LEAST ONE DEFENDANT SAW DECENCY IN ASST. DA GARZA
(Click on graphic above to enlarge and read Gus Garza's funeral arrangements.)By Juan MontoyaThe March 2016 Cameron County Democrats primary elections were close, too close.Incumbent Luis V. Saenz...
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A PIECE OF BROWNSVILLE FIREFIGHTERS' HISTORY
By Juan MontoyaAn old workhorse of the Brownsville Fire Dept. in its early days, a 55-foot, 1927 American LaFrance fire aerial truck with rear tiller is on its way back home.Depending on how long it...
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RECOGNIZE ANY OF THESE FIREFIGHTERS FROM OCT. 1975?
(Ed.'s Note: The next-to-last time that the 1927 American LaFrance aerial fire truck with tiller was driven in a parade was in October 1975 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Brownsville...
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IN DOWNTOWN BROWNTOWN, AN ECLECTIC MESCLA OF MUSIC
(Ed.'s Note: Does your taste run toward conjunto, classical, salsa, bachata, cumbia or rock and blues? You can find it all within two or three square blocks in downtown Brownsville. Whether it's the...
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A TALE OF LOVE AND LONGING FROM THE FROZEN NORTH
By Juan MontoyaJose Ortega looked out from his window at the gritty snow piled over the sidewalks of his home in Chicago Heights.It was late November, and the daily blasts of icy wind buffeted the...
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