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REY TO LILY: DO YOU APPROVE OF ME SCOLDING ADELA? ANY CORRECTIONS OR...
(Ed.'s Note: Despite the critics of this blog who say that Texas Southmost College trustee Dr. Reynaldo Garcia is acting on his own in his attacks on TSC board chair Adela Garza, take a look at this...
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HANDS DOWN: GILMAN D.A. OFFICE EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
(Ed/'s Note: He turned in a sterling performance when a Corpus Christi jury acquitted Cameron County Tax Assessor-Collector on 23 counts, distinguished himself before the bar when he botched the Marco...
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IF IMITATION IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF FLATTERY...
(Ed.s Note: We don't usually toot our horn, but in this case, what the hell, why not? About a week ago, Feb. 8 to be exact, we posted a photo of the defaced art work that students created on the walls...
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DID ALL THESE PORTER PEOPLE PAY/RETURN $995 RINGS?
By Juan MontoyaAs the Joe Rodriguez/BISD Ring Gate scandal festers at the school district, questions have popped up over the 11 non-players who received the $995 rings from Herrf Jones, a ring...
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DEADLINE TODAY FOR SPOT ON CITY COMMISSION BALLOT
By Juan MontoyaSuddenly, the City of Brownsville District 3 commissioner spot has become the most popular nesting spot for candidates.So far, as the 5 p.m. deadline approaches, there are four...
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THERE IS NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR THE STRAWBERRY BUG!
Hello , my name is ------ Lucio and I attend Brownsville Early College High school. Today as I was eating the strawberries I was served at lunch I encountered a bug in them. Believe in BISD:/
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ESCOBAR'S SON: PABLO AND CIA MOVED DRUGS INTO U.S.
By Claire BernishJuan Pablo Escobar Henao, son of notorious Medellín cartel drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar, now says his father “worked for the CIA.”Juan Pablo Escobar Henao, son of notorious Medellín...
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WASH. PARK CLIMATE CHANGE MARCH SET FOR SATURDAY
The Lower Rio Grande Valley Sierra Club and Save RGV from LNG invite you to the Brownsville Climate March on Saturday, February 18 from 1:00-4:00 PM. The March will begin and end at Washington Park,...
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THEN THERE WERE SIX? ARE PORTILLO AND EVERITT OUT?
(Unless the City Secretary website is wrong or their site was not updated after 5 p.m. Friday, it would seem that the election May 6 will bear only ix names, including two incumbents At-Large B Rose...
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PORTILLO CONFIRMS SHE IS OUT, COY ABOUT FUTURE
By Juan MontoyaUnless those few who attended the town hall meeting at the UTRGV were plugged in to Facebook or were privy to her inside circle, they probably didn't know that one of the city...
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COMMITTED MARCHERS ADVOCATE AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
(Uniting in their core opposition to the introduction of LNG – Liquefied Natural Gas – plants into the port of Brownsville, protesters Saturday staged a march against climate change at Washington Park....
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A LITTLE BIT OF BORDER SOUL FROM CRIXELL & FRIENDS
By Juan Montoya"Once there was a way to get back homeward..."And once, way back when, when they used to be The Connectors and they used to play to an empty Amber Pub at the hotel where the Brownsville...
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NO WONDER BISD WANTS TO CLOSE CUMMINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL
By Juan MontoyaNot long ago, during a meeting of the board of the Brownsville Independent School District, an agenda item directed the superintendent to justify the closing of Cummings Middle...
View ArticleDID BISD CANCEL ARMORED-CAR CONTRACT WITH AMERICAN SURVEILLANCE TO COVER UP...
By Juan MontoyaIn a very public show to highlight its supposed fiscal watchdog function, the administration of the Brownsville Independent School District has cancelled its contract with Brownsville...
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READER REMEMBERS JOE WALLACE GARCIA WAY BACK WHEN
(Ed.'s Note: following our post on the Fiesta del Sol, which kicks off the 80th Annual Charro Days fiesta in Brownsville, one of our eagle-eyed readers fished out a newspaper clipping that reported...
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LANDIN FIRED AMID CHARGES OF INSUBORDINATION, ARROGANCE
By Juan MontoyaThis time, her supervisors put up with her for only a year.Previously, before she took the job as executive director of the Harlingen Convention and Visitors Bureau also serving as the...
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A JAUNDICED VIEW OF BROWNSVILLE COMMISSION ELECTION
By Dr. G.F. McHale-Scullyhttp://themchalereport.blogspot.com/Here we go again as Brownsville, the Third World Capital of the United States, sinks faster than the Titanic in an ocean of ignorance,...
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