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SELLING SOUTHMOST: CAN VOTES GET $$$, APPOINTMENTS?
By Juan MontoyaCan a third-place finisher in the City of Brownsville District 1 race parlay the 486 votes he garnered into a bargaining chip to garner money and appointments for friends to city...
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WHEN IT RAINS...:BAD START TO A RAINY AFTERNOON
(Ed.'s Note: We feel sorry for the poor guy in the van whose front left wheel and/or suspension buckled smack in the middle of traffic at the corner of 13th and Adams, right in front of the cursed Casa...
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DID GMS LIVE UP TO ITS OBLIGATIONS IN ITS RFP?
(Ed.'s Note: For months while the City of Brownsville Commission deliberated on which of three companies to award the lucrative multi-million waste collections contract, complaints against the cost and...
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ARE COB CHEAP CURBS WORTH POTENTIAL LEGAL LIABILITY?
Special to El Rrun-RrunLast week, The City of Brownsville added some new parking meters on an unused bus driveway.But the way the city workers went about it, some local residents say that in trying to...
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MCALLEN, BISD SCHOOLS CRACK TOP 10 IN U.S CHESS
GARDEN PARK TIGERS CHESS TEAM, NATIONALS 2019(Sebastian Baez, Anthony Nicholas John, Michael Brody John, Jose Ramirez, Jesus I. Ibarra, Natalie Michelle John, and Santiago Hernandez.)By Juan...
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ONCE UPON A TIME YOU DRESSED SO FINE, THREW DA BUMS A DIME, IN YOUR PRIME....
"Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!"People'd call, say "Beware Tone, you'reBound to fall"You thought they were all kiddin' youYou used to laugh aboutEverybody that was...
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ALEX MAKES HIS MARK: PASSES 7 BILLS, 3RD HIGHEST OF 30 NEW HOUSE MEMBERS AND...
(Ed.'s Note: Defying his detractors' assertions that as a new member of the Texas House of Representatives he wouldn't be able to pass a bill as would 34-year House veteran Rene Oliveira, new District...
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AFTER DECADES, B.U.S. "FIXING" 53 OF 588 (9 %) SHELTERS; DA MAYOR A NO-SHOW...
By Jim BartonBrownsville Observer BlogBoard members for the Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Committee seemed unprepared for Chairman Tony Martinez simply blowing off the meeting with no...
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YES MIKE, POLITICALLY INCORRECT, PERO MUY DELICIOSO
(Ed.'s Note: We have argued at length over the local use of phrases like gabacho and gringo with one of our good friends (a pocho at that) and he will argue with the deepest conviction that those words...
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TODAY IN HISTORY: U.S. ARMY OCCUPIES MATAMOROS
By Juan MontoyaTen days after the encounter between U.S. troops and the Mexican defenders at Palo Alto on May 8 and Resaca de la Palma the next day in 1846, "U.S. soldiers walked across the river 'up...
View ArticleSTAGE SET FOR CITY OF BROWNSVILLE RUNOFF ELECTIONS
Mayor1. Charlie Cabler2. Trey MendezCity Commissioner At-Large “A"1. John Cowen2. Jessica Puente Bradshaw City Commission District 11. Nurith Galonsky2. Ricardo Longoria Jr.Early voting for the runoff...
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A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION: THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR
"Juan, you're a great journalist, but not a historian. The USA’s invasion of Mexico was not a wildly popular war. In fact it wasn’t a war at all, but rather a naked aggression, as the Mexicans call it....
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MOVING DAVIS MEMORIAL TO PARK INSULT TO VETERANS
By Antonio CastilloFrom Brownsville HeraldEditor:“I, Antonio Castillo, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;...
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IF U R AT CORPUS CHRISTI MARINA, SEE, LISTEN TO SELENA
(Ed.''s Note: A Bay to Shore family marathon and a birthday brought us to Corpitos this weekend, and while were were at ti, we wandered over toe Shoreline and the Corpus Christi Marina to gawk at the...
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NEXT MONDAY, TAKE A MOMENT TO REMEMBER, RESPECT THEM
By Juan MontoyaThe Son's StoryI never knew you, DadAnd in the dimmest fogsOf Time, You were a pang I feltWhen mother heard you diedI was there inside herWhen she heard,She has saidI never knew youNor...
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ALONG MILITARY HIGHWAY, EVERY DAY IS MEMORIAL DAY
By Juan MontoyaDoña Mari is having a pulga, once againShe’s pulled out the folding table andlaid the clean white cloth upon it and neatly,like an undertaker, lays out her goodsAlong the river road that...
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BISD STAFFERS, PARENTS, ALARMED OVER MIXING AT-RISK ADULTS WITH TEENAGE...
By Juan MontoyaEven before the administration under Brownsville Independent School District interim Superintendent Sylvia Hatton finalizes the plans to consolidate several campuses to address...
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FLOOD CONTROL BILL CLEARS SENATE, GOES TO ABBOTT
By Alex Dominguez Texas House of Representative, District 37AUSTIN-- House Bill 4726 by State Representative Alex Dominguez (D-Brownsville) has passed the Texas Senate and is headed to Governor Greg...
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