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WILL THE KINGMAKERS HAVE THEIR SAY IN CITY ELECTIONS?
(Ed.'s Note: If a picture is worth a thousand words, the fivesome above probably have gone through several $100,000s in public money.At left is Oscar Garcia Jr., the son of the former UTB-TSC President...
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WINDY ENOUGH FOR YOU? SEE MY IMPRESSION OF A DUCK!
(Ed's Note: Temperatures will hover around 90 degrees today for the 80th Annual Charro Days Children's parade down Elizabeth Street. According to the National Weather Service, winds will gust to about...
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APOLITICAL VIEW ON MILO YIANNOPOULOUS CONTROVERSY
By Rafael ColladoSpecial to El Rrun-RrunI am a radical Leftist. I don't and never have deemed Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos serious enough to analyze or contest any of his macabre oeuvre. However,...
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AS BSN VENDOR, JOE-ROD PUSHES HIS BID AT MEET: ANILLOGATE FAR FROM OVER,...
By Juan MontoyaThe Texas Local Government Code is very specific on what officials can do or not do when there is an item before the board to which he is elected and he has a personal interest in it.The...
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AND NOW, A WORD FROM FORMER TELEVISA STAR
(Ed.s Note: Recognize that pretty face. One of our readers did. Apparently, it is Claribel Sierra, one of the reporters for the Televisa stations right across the river in Matamoros who has fallen into...
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WOULD SOMBREROFEST BE THE SAME WITHOUT CRIS RIVERA?
(Ed.'s Note: In what has become a SombreroFest tradition, we heard a Jimi Hendrix song being belted out by the Big Tent and sure enough it turned out to be our old friend Cris Rivera an his bods...
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IT WAS WALL TO WALL HUMANITY AT INTOCABLE CONCERT
(Ed'.'s Note: They are easily one of the most popular norteño groups in the United States and Latin America and they packed the house at the SombreroFest Thursday night. They were the headliners and...
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PASTOR INVITES VALLEY RESIDENTS TO LEARN BLACK HISTORY
By Raul GarciaValley Morning Star Staff writerHARLINGEN — It was a brisk windy morning at the Fort Brown campus in Brownsville when Pastor Ray Ellington was researching black history in the Valley.That...
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DISPATCHES FROM OUR MAN IN THE ARGENTINIAN PATAGONIA
(The last we heard from local attorney Ruben Herrera was a text message with this photo attachment sent from the foothills of the Patagonia. Yes, that's Patagonia as in the southern tip of Argentina in...
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SIERRA CLUB MEETS SATURDAY TO STRATAGIZE AGAINST LNGS
East Wing Lower RGV Sierra Club Meeting & OutingThis Saturday Afternoon February 251:00 to 4:00 pmPalo Alto National Battlefield Park7200 Paredes Line Road, BrownsvilleJust south of Hwy 511See...
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CAPITOL THEATER STUDENT ART WORKS RESTORED
(Ed.'s Note: A few weeks after a tagger that goes by the name of "NY" defaced the pictures that art students painted on the walls of the old Capitol Theater, someone came back and fixed them by...
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A BRIEF GLIMPSE BACKWARD AT 80TH CHARRO DAYS FIESTA
(Ed.'s Note: All good things, the saying goes, must come to an end. And so it was with the 80th Charro Days fiesta in Brownsville. For the past week, the town has come together and celebrated the...
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WITH CHARROS OUT OF THE WAY, LET CAMPAIGN BEGIN
By Juan MontoyaThe races for the City of Brownsville Commission are underway.After a hugely successful Charro days, Mr. Amigo and SombreroFest, the attention of the electorate is now on the commission...
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FROM CHARRO DAYS TRADITIONS TO ETERNITY...AND BEYOND
(Ed.'s Note: Just when we thought we were done with Charro Days, someone sends us a photo that is noteworthy for others to see. In this one, Cameron County Pct. 2 commissioner Alex Dominguez and his...
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WHO AUTHORIZED ZENDEJAS TO NEGOTIATE ANILLOGATE?
By Juan MontoyaAccording to the report of the investigation conducted by Brownsville Co-Lead Internal Auditor Arvin Tucker into the procurement of 40 championship rings for the Porter Early College...
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CASTRO: CITY ADMIN PICKS MOST COSTLY TRASH SERVICE
By Erasmo Castro(AKA Da Cheez)Why Brownsville Businesses Pay Too Much for Trash ServiceIn August of 2016, the City of Brownsville requested proposals for collection and disposal of commercial and...
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BISD AGENDA ITEMS SHOW SKEWERED PRIORITIES
By Juan MontoyaIf you look at the agenda for the Tuesday, March 7 meeting of the trustees of the Brownsville Independent School District, two items will stick out which indicate the disconnect between...
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