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SEVIER-SCHULTZ: HOW CAN HE BE IN CHARGE OF $5 MILLION?
Special to El Rrrun-RrunIn 2012, Graham Sevier-Schultz graduated from college with a B.A. in general interdisciplinary studies and spent the next two years there waiting on tables in Dallas restaurants...
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AT PUB, THE LOST 1.3 MILLION AND POTENTIAL SCAPEGOAT
By Juan MontoyaWell, as predicted, the John Bruciak Brownsville Public Utility Board administration has allowed the City of Brownsville commission to get a copy of the internal audit and the upshot of...
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ES TOCHO MOROCHO! S-MOST MCDONALD'S FETES ITS GRADS!
QUE BUENA ONDA!Our Ronald McDonald hats are off to the franchise at Southmost and Esperanza roads for featuring their graduating seniors on photos displayed outside by the curb so people can see them....
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DUCKING OUT UNDER WATCHFUL EYES OF B'TOWN'S FINEST
(Ed.'s Note: One of our seven readers caught this scene of a ducky couple with their new brand-new brood of newly-hatched ducklings moving north on the expressway. "Even the ducks are leaving...
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CACOPHONY OF ROOSTING PARROTS ACCENTS B'TOWN DUSK
(Ed.'s Note: Even though it's been 20 years since the appearance of parrots in downtown Brownsville caught the attention of journalists from as far as New York, their daily roosting ritual echoes...
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A HARDY BAND; NO SUNSHINE PATRIOTS MEMORIAL DAY 2020
(Ed's Note: There were fewer of them because of the COVID-19 threat, but the hardy participants of this year's Memorial Day Silent March turned out for the trek from the HEB at the corner of Boca Chica...
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THE VIRUS YOUR MOTHER WARNED YOU ABOUT...
Special to El Rrun-RrunSure enough.Just as many observers warned that the "'soft opening" of Brownsville Independent School District schools might result in COVID-19 infections, it has come true.The...
View ArticleYET MORE LITIGATION EMANATING FROM OMAR LUCIO'S JAIL
Special to El Rrun-RrunWell, the other shoe is now ready to drop.If you remember our post on the incident involving a jail gransport guard forgetting two prisoners in a van outside the...
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IN COVID-19 TIMES, A PACE H.S. GRAD CARAVAN
(Ed.'s Note: This year will be one for the books, with an invisible virus bringing down national economies, stock markets, setting unemployment records, delaying professional sports [baseball, of all...
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ALAMO TRAIN WRECK 80 YEARS AGO WORST IN TEXAS HISTORY
Special to El Rrun-RrunLike the remaining survivors of the Holocaust, few people are around who still remember what was until then - and remains now - ranked as the worst disaster in Texas road...
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A 1878 WHODONIT: DID SABAS CAVAZOS DIE AT DIAZ'S ORDERS?
Special to El Rrun-RrunFor many years before he died in 2014 P.G. Cavazos said that his family's lore included a suspicion that longtime Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz had Sabas Cavazos - a pioneer...
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100,000 DEAD AMERICANS ACCEPTABLE TO OPEN ECONOMY?
Flowers left on a barrier near a temporary morgue truck at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn. Credit... Caitlin Ochs"The number of confirmed virus deaths in the U.S. has surpassed 100,000. The...
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JUNE IS MONTH OF RECKONING FOR DR. SYLVIA ATKINSON
By Juan MontoyaJust as the wheels of the gods grind slowly, so has the day of reckoning for Dr. Sylvia Atkinson, the Brownsville Independent School District trustee and former Texas Southmost College...
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ROY HESS, FORMER HERALD SPORTS EDITOR SIGNS OUT -30-
(Ed.'s Note: He wasn't a blowhard, flamboyant or a loudmouth as sports writers tend to be. Roy Hess, when those of us who worked with him at the Herald remember him, remember a self-effacing, accurate,...
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SPACEX SUCCEEDS! IT'S WHAT MUSK HAS WANTED ALL ALONG
By Juan MontoyaWhy is everyone so surprised?Oh, admittedly, the fireball that obliterated the Starship prototype out at Boca Chica was quite a blast. It has so far beat anything that Elon Musks' outfit...
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BROWNTOWN'S MARCUS TRIBUTE TO GEORGE FLOYD
GET OFF ME GET OFF ME GET OFF ME GET OFF ME GET OFF ME GET OFF ME GET OFF ME GET OFF ME GET OFF ME GET OFF ME GET OFF ME GET OFF ME!
View ArticlePUB GETS $1.3 MILLION: "WE KNOW WHERE THE MONEY IS AT"
By Juan MontoyaSources close to the investigation into the missing $1.3 million payment made by the Brownsville Public Utility Board Finance Department to a vendor through a local bank say that they...
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RIVERA H.S. CLASS PRESIDENT SCHOOLS BISD ON FREE SPEECH
(Ed.'s Note: Rivera High School class president Daniela V. takes a knee during the singing of the national anthem Monday in protest of the abuse of civil rights and murder of George Floyd and the...
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BISD POST ON RIVERA GRADS BEFORE YOUTUBE CENSORSHIP
(Ed.'s Note: To their discredit, the administration and board of trustees of the Brownsville Independent School District had posted a YouTube video of the graduation ceremonies of River H.S. before...
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