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CUELLAR'S ANCESTOR AND HIS FIGHT AGAINST BIGOTRY
(After we posted the story of our friend Joe Cuellar's ancestor John F. Webber, a white settler who was married to a black slave and had a family in the early days of Texas, one of our readers informed...
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FLORA QUERY: DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT KID OF TREE THIS IS?
(Ed.'s Note: One of our three readers is attending school in Houston and sent us a photo of a draped in Spanish moss and asked if we knew what kind of tree it was? We guessed that it was some kind of...
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GOVERNORS, PEMEX BLAMED FOR FUEL SHORTAGES
By Juan MontoyaRemember our recent post about the increased number of motorists and truckers form Mexico coming over the Rio Grande to fill up with diesel and gas?With increases in the price of fuel...
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MAYOR'S ILLEGAL VOTE TO APPROVE HIS OWN BID TO PURCHASE TAX RESALE PROPERTY...
By Juan MontoyaFor the months preceding the Nov. 3, 2015 vote where Brownsville Mayor Tony Martinez's bid for a tax resale property forfeited for delinquent taxes was discussed in executive session and...
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CITY ATTORNEY WANTS CUSTODY, TO BE PAID CHILD SUPPORT
By Juan MontoyaFor the better part of two years, contract city attorney Mark E. Sossi has had a common-law relationship with a woman he met at a strip club in Brownsville.That relationship blossomed...
View ArticleIN FACE OF INACTION BY P.D., CITY, AND DA'S OFFICE ON MAYOR'S ILLEGAL VOTE,...
By Juan MontoyaOn its face, Mayor Tony Martinez's participation in secret discussions and public vote Nov. 3, 2015, where the city commission considered and accepted his bid for a tax resale property...
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DR. SYLVIA, BALTA, CESAR AND JOE. WHAT'S SHAKING?
(Ed.'s Note: They say that Brownsville is a small town with a lot of people in it. Some are coming, some are going, as we are the Crossroads of the Hemisphere. For that reason, there is precious little...
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CAN GBIC "LOAN" AIRPORT $27 MILLION FOR TERMINAL?
By Juan MontoyaDuring a recent presentation for the city commission by Estrada and Hinojosa, the City of Brownsville's financial consultants, a proposal for the city to "borrow" $27.9 million from the...
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JOHN WEBBER'S FIGHT FOR EQUALITY VS. THE "GOOD PEOPLE"
(Ed.'s Note: If you didn't have the time to read the pages posted before about John F. Webber and the racial attitudes in the early 1800s before Texas became a state that eventually bacame part of the...
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RODRIGUEZ'S PRINTS LINKED TO $25,000 RING "DONATION"
By Juan MontoyaRemeber we were telling you about the proposed "donation" by ring-maker Herff Jones, a subsidiary of Varsity Brands, of 28 rings to coaches and athletes of Porter Early College High...
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COUNTY SUPERVISOR GONZALEZ: "DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO"
By Juan MontoyaAt the mandatory safety meeting called for all workers Tuesday by Cameron County Public Works Supervisor Ruben Gonzalez he was adamant.Any worker who was involved in any accident...
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PAYROLL CHECKS ARE BOUNCING AT BISD...AGAIN
By Juan MontoyaBy now, it has become par for the course that someone will drop the ball over at the Brownsville Independent School District.If you were one of the 700 employees in the district who...
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VENDOR'S AMBASSADOR STEERS BISD FUNDS TO PAMPER JOCKS
By Juan MontoyaYou could see Brownsville Independent School District trustee Joe Rodriguez visibly agitated at the board's last meeting when items he cared for deeply were contested by three...
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TERCERO'S UNILATERAL DECISION TO COST TSC MILLIONS
By Juan MontoyaThe minutes of the Sept. 20, 2012 meeting of the Texas Southmost College board of trustees had an item (#8) dealing with the granting of a three-year contract for providing textbooks and...
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VELA FINDS LONG LOST ANCESTOR IN MATA CHURCH VAULT
By Juan MontoyaU.S. Representative Filemon Vela Jr. remembers that as a young boy his father – the late Filemon Vela, an attorney and then a federal judge – took him to visit the crypt containing the...
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MORE THAN CONFLICT OF INTEREST DISCLOSURE LAWS VIOLATED IN RODRIGUEZ...
By Juan MontoyaDuring the January meeting of the Brownsville Independent School District, the issue of whether the district could vote to accept the "donation" of 28 rings valued at $25,020 made by...
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SUPERVISOR SENT TO DRUG TEST, DEFENSIVE DRIVING COURSE
By Juan MontoyaIt took a while for the Cameron County Human Resources and administration to get their act together, but on Friday they leaped into action to make sure that Public Works Supervisor Ruben...
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HART'S BOOK PREDICTED U.S. ATTITUDES TOWARD MEXICO
From: "Empire and Revolution," by Dr. John Mason HartUniversity of California Press, 2002Introduction: Imperial AmbitionPage 3"The evolving patterns of American behavior in Mexico have reflected and...
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STATE DROPS SEVEN MORE CHARGES AGAINST YZAGUIRRE
From News 5BROWNSVILLE – Seven charges against the Cameron County tax-assessor collector on trial were dropped Monday morning.Tony Yzaguirre Jr. won’t be facing two charges for bribery and five charges...
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