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LINEBARGER TAX LAWYERS: COMPETITORS "INFLATED" MONEY LOST TO BISD BECAUSE OF...
By Juan MontoyaWhat it you depended on your rents from your properties and hired a tax lawyer to collect for you from your delinquent tenants?And what if you found out that another tax lawyer told you...
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BROWNSVILLE MARCHERS JOIN WORLD, U.S. PROTESTS
(Ed.'s Note: Brownsville joined in marches that have spread across the 50 states to protest police violence against civilians, especially black men. The group gathered in front of the federal...
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A DEMAND AND PRAYER FOR JUSTICE IN BLACK AND WHITE; SUPER IN DARK ON 1ST...
First Amendment.Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the...
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MITCHELL-BENNETT, SEIVER-SCHULTZ: READY FOR PRIME TIME?
By Juan MontoyaWhen Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation hired Toyota USA's wunderkid Mario Lozoya from San Antonio as its next CEO on August 2018 after ditching the contract it had with the...
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RELIGION, PATRIOTISM, THE LAST REFUGE OF THE SCOUNDREL
A political party’s primary function is to bestow its imprimatur on candidates, thereby proclaiming: This is who we are. In 2016, the Republican Party gave its principal nomination to a vulgarian and...
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STATE, COUNTY RESPONSE TO COV ID-19 DISMAL AT BEST; CASES RISING, SHERIFF...
By Juan MontoyaThe scorecard isn't even in yet, buth with a daily tally of 20 or more new positive cass of COVID-19 being reported across Cameron County daily, it's obvious that the response to the...
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KNEELING DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS NOT UNPATRIOTIC
By Juan MontoyaA few years ago I was visiting with friends in a southwest rural Minnesota community.It was the Fourth of July and with everything closed, my friend and I walked over to the local...
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THREE YEARS OF WAITING FOR JUSTICE WITH NO END IN SIGHT
By Juan MontoyaGrief has no closure.As we see the national mourning for George Floyd play out on our television screens, there are also people here who continue to mourn their loved and lost friends...
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S. TEXAS MUSICAL TRADITIONS SAVED BY EARLY RECORDINGS
(Ed,'s Note: Before Chelo Silva and Selena, there were Manuela Longoria and Otilia Krausse. And before Ramon Ayala and Mana, there was Narciso Martinez and blind Jose Suarez. Traveling with his sound...
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NOT EVERYONE NEEDS OR WANTS A RHODES SCHOLARSHIP...
(...so many local students who want to work to make a decent living take advantage of the different vocational technical training offered locally through the various private and public schools and...
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BLAME COVID-19 FOR EXTENDING PORT, TSC TERMS
Special to El Rrun-RrunCOVID-19 not only sent the world's economies into a tailspin, is killing 100,000s around the world, and - of all things - has deprived red-blooded Americans of a baseball season...
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B'VILLE BEGGED NEW ORLEANS FOR FREE HELP WITH CORTINA
(Ed.'s Note: Following the Sept. 28, 1859 takeover of Brownsville by Juan N. Cortina, the city fathers begged the state and federal government for help claiming he was preparing to raze the town to the...
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MCHALE TO COWEN: "ORALE JOHN CALL A SPADE A SPADE!"
By Dr. G.F. McHale-ScullyWhere does City Commissioner John "Cowboy" Cowen stand on the removal of the Jefferson Davis rock located in Washington Park?A member of a "good" gringo family and rejecting...
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DAVIS "A RACIST TRAITOR" WHO RAN FROM YANKS IN RICHMOND
By Michael LevensonNew York Times Protesters toppled a statue of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday night, as...
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"IT'S NOT JUST GEORGE FLOYD. WE ALL WANT TO BREATHE..."
"Questionable shootings and killings by police have happened here in the valley y’all don’t have to look that far. I maybe wrong but I don’t remember any protests or gatherings in the valley to...
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DUBIOUS MILESTONE: CAMERON COUNTY BREAKS 1,000 CASES
WESLACO, Texas (Border Report) — Four South Texas county judges expressed their frustration with fighting the coronavirus pandemic on the border and the long-term economic impact it is having on their...
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IS IT A BATTLE OF THE SIGNS? OR SIGNS OF DESPERATION?
(Ed.'s Note: No one thought that former Cameron County District Clerk Eric Garza would make much of a race against incumbent Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio when he resigned the position to...
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