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TSC LOWERS TUITION BY 20 PERCENT, NIXES PARKING FEES
By Texas Southmost CollegeAs part of Texas Southmost College’s (TSC) ongoing comprehensive CARE initiative, all students enrolled in the fall 2020 semester will receive an automatic 20 percent tuition...
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THE NOOSE TIGHTENS: D.A. ISSUES SUBPOENA TO BISD SUPER
By Erin SheridanThe Brownsville HeraldCameron County authorities on Monday issued a subpoena to BISD Superintendent Dr. Rene Gutierrez requesting messages, videos, and documents related to Board of...
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COVID-19 NIGHTMARE: ELECTED OFFICIALS, "NO COVID HERE!"
By Juan MontoyaShe looked long and hard at the number of COVID-19 deaths reported by the county.On Wednesday, the Cameron County Health Department had reported zero deaths. And she wondered, "what...
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DISASTER FROM START TO FINISH: NO COVID TESTING TODAY
(Ed.'s Note: Characteristic of local response to the overwhelming contagion of the CODIV-19, today we had a line stretching from the testing site at Iglesia de Restauracion y Poder on the corner of...
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COMMISSIONER GALONSKY: "DON'T TIRE OF VOLUNTEERING."
Special to El Rrun-RrunWhen my friend Fausto - who owns a used tire shop en la Southmost- saw the glowing words of admiration that City of Brownsville Commissioner Nurith Galonsky had to say on her...
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THE COUNTY'S LUDICROUS DEATH COUNT FROM COVID-19
By Juan MontoyaOn Thursday, a local justice of the peace got a call to conduct and inquest into a death from COVID-19...at the Gateway Bridge.A man in his 40s, able to cross into the United States with...
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AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH:LUCIO PLAYED WITH INMATES' LIVES
By Derick GarciaKVEO 23CAMERON COUNTY, Texas — Newly obtained documents confirmed the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office knew of a potential COVID-19 outbreak a full two weeks before placing all jails on...
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HOAX NO MORE: BODIES START TO PILE UP AT VALLEY BAPTIST
(Ed.'s Note: It's no longer an academic debate on mask or no mask for the family of this COVID-19 fatality being loaded into the mobile morgue in a refrigerated trailer parked behind Valley Baptist...
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"THERE HAVE BEEN HUNDREDS OF COVID DEATHS IN OUR CITY. OUR FUNERAL HOMES ARE...
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COVID-19 DECIMATES SPI HOTEL HELP, BEACHES STAY OPEN
Special to El Rrun-RrunSOUTH PADRE ISLAND — West of the Queen Isabella Causeway people are waiting for 10 hours to get tested for COVID-19.Funeral homes are turning away corpses because there is no...
View ArticleDID THE CHIEF SAY IT, OR SIMPLY A MISUNDERSTANDING? SUICIDES IN CITY STEADY,...
"I've spoken to the chief of police in Brownsville and he has assured me that we've had a suicide, one, two suicides a day since since COVID happened here in Brownsville, since March..." Statement by...
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LACK OF PERSONNEL, SOLID DATA, EQUALS DISMAL RESPONSE
By Juan MontoyaWhen a violent criminal overpowered a guard, stole his gun, and ended up killing and innocent civilian for his car, Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio said the commissioners court had not...
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THE MATING CALL OF THE BLACK URRACA IN COVID DAYS
The wringing of hands andGnashing of teethAs a mass of grackles flies byAnd bewildered looks of despair,Turning then to loss...And then, to despair againAnd, yeah, like the ancient onesWe went down to...
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A FULLER PICTURE OF MEXICAN WAR GEN. ZACHARY TAYLOR
(Ed.'s Note: As is usually the case, Texas history has little to say about the personal lives of important figures in the past. Little is mentioned, for example, that many of the Alamo's defenders were...
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HIDALGO COUNTY THE EPICENTER OF RGV BATTLE WITH COVID
A team of nurses surrounding a coronavirus patient moments after her death.(In the Rio Grande Valley, on Texas’ southern border, more than a third of families live in poverty. Nearly half of the...
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NO MASKS OR FACE COVERINGS? IN TUCSON, THEY'RE FREE
(Mayor Regina Romero hands out masks to a driver during a free drive-thru mask distribution event in the parking lot of the Donna R Liggins Recreation Center located at 2160 N 6th Avenue, on July 18,...
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IN A PREVIOUS CRISIS, MOVIES TOOK US FAR AWAY
Special to El Rrun-RrunNo one, not even the writers and movie directors of sci-fi in the Golden Era of movies could have imagined the drama we are living now with this COVID-19.For one, watching movies...
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FEDS: REVOKING ATKINSON'S BOND FOR VIOLATION OF BOND?
By Juan MontoyaA sealed motion submitted by the Assistant U.S. Attorneys' Office in federal District Judge Fernando Rodriguez's court allegedly will request the court to revoke the bond Dr. Sylvia...
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LOCKDOWN DENIES INMATES ACCESS TO COUNSEL, FREEDOM
By Juan MontoyaThen positive COVID-19 cases have rocketed to more than 500 at Cameron County's Rucker-Carrizales jail, the sewage system remains backed up, and now the administration has stopped the...
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