BISD TEACHERS' UNION (AOBE) ENDORSEMENTS DRAW REBUKE
(Ed.'s Note: Days after these mailers appeared in Brownsville Independent School District residents' mailboxes, social media was buzzing with outrage over the picks. Now the writer above is taking his...
View Article161 YEARS AGO "CHENO" CORTINA TOOK OVER BROWNSVILLE
(Ed.'s Note: On September 28, 1859, local rancher Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, heir to his mother's ranch on the Espiritu Santo Grant that covered most of Cameron County including the land where the City...
View ArticleARNOLD: "VOTE WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE..."
Brownsville HeraldFormer California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made an appearance at the Cameron County Commissioner’s Court meeting on Tuesday morning.Schwarzenegger logged on to the virtual...
View ArticleCHAMBER TAPS BROWNTOWN'S RODRIGUEZ MAN OF THE YEAR
McAllen MonitorThe McAllen Chamber of Commerce announced police Chief Victor Rodriguez and Sally Fraustro-Guerra are this year’s Man and Woman of the Year.According to the chamber newsletter,...
View Article"COACH" JOE BACK FOR 2nds and 3rds AT BISD HOG TROUGH
(Source: BISD Public Information Requests)(Ed.'s Note: If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the graphics above are worth millions – about $3,528,706 worth actually – of sports equipment sold...
View ArticleNO-HOLDS BARRED TACTICS IN THE COUNTY SHERIFF'S RACE
(Ed.'s Note: For months before the March Democratic Party primary election, dark rumors emanated from the camp of incumbent Cameron County Sheriff's Dept. Omar Lucio of tenuous links between Mexican...
View ArticleFIFTH CIRCUIT CT. OF APPEALS SAYS NO TO LA PALANCA
By Emma PlatoffThe Texas Tribune Texas voters will not be able to select every candidate of a major political party with one punch, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, upholding a 2017 state law...
View ArticleGALONSKY STILL HURTING FROM GBIC OUSTER, CEO CHOICE
By Juan MontoyaYou didn't need to be a Zoltar to see what was coming from City of Brownsville District 1 Commissioner Nurith Galonsky during last Tuesday's meeting.As the commissioners wrestled with...
View ArticleWILL TRUMP TRY HIS REMEDY ON HIMSELF AND FIRST LADY?
"So, supposedly we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said...
View ArticleHEY, BISD! THERE'S $1.4 MILLION FOR CONNECTIVITY AT SAMS
Special to El Rrun-RrunThis past Tuesday Brownsville Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Rene Gutierrez and Dr. Nellie Cantu went before the City of Brownsville Commission asking for a $1.2...
View ArticleGRANDWOODS APTS. RESIDENTS: GRACIAS PUB WATER GUYS
(Ed.'s Note: Early this week, residents at the Grand Woods Apts. on Old Port Isabel Road woke up to a geyser spraying water just outside the complex walls. It turned out to be a broken water main...
View ArticleD'TOWN ON LIFE SUPPORT, BUT BLOOD BIZ IS ALIVE & KICKING
(Ed.'s Note: Go downtown on any day and you will the shuttered businesses, scores of homeless wandering the streets and congregating on closed up businesses like the Casa del Nylon. There are a few...
View ArticleWHAT HAPPENS IF TRUMP DIES OR CANNOT SERVE?
By Nicolas Fandos and Nick CorasanitiNew York TimesThe Constitution and the law are clearest in instances when a president dies or must resign from office. The 25th Amendment states: “In case of the...
View ArticleLOCAL ATTORNEY WANTS CORNEJO-LOPEZ REMOVED FROM CUSTODY CASE;...
By Juan MontoyaChild custody Custody battles are messy, contentious things, but in a case being heard in Judge Elia Cornejo-Lopez's 404th District Court, events have degenerated to the point where the...
View ArticleWHAT A DIFFERENCE A PANDEMIC MAKES: JESS SHUNS EDER
Not only did Jessica not recommended her ex BFF savior PA Eder Hernandez but she is recommending five other COVID-19 testing providers, one of them all the way in Weslaco. Did she forget her bosom...
View ArticleNO MORE MR. NICE GUY! PUB BACK IN DISCONNECT MODE
Special to El Rrun-RrunThe Brownsville Public Utilities Board (BPUB) is extending Public Power Week (Oct. 5-10) by hosting a series of activities for the community throughout...
View ArticleSESSIONS, ROSENSTEIN: "WE NEED TO TAKE AWAY CHILDREN"
By Michael D. Shear,Katie Benner, and Michael S. SchmidtNew York Times WASHINGTON — The five U.S. attorneys along the border with Mexico, including three appointed by President Trump, recoiled in May...
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