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COUNTY OPTS TO CHANGE BANKS, LEAVES $300,000 ON TABLE
By Juan MontoyaDespite objections from Cameron County Commissioner David Garza that changing bank depositories would cost county coffers more than $300,000 a year, a majority of the court opted to go...
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LUCIO BILL WAS A NON-STARTER AND HE KNEW IT
By Juan MontoyaElected officials and educators are scratching their heads over the filing (and then withdrawing) of a bill by Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. that would have established a countywide school...
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ZENDEJAS: "WE HAVE BEEN IN DISCUSSION WITH (A) COMPANY...(ABOUT SOCCER)...
By Juan MontoyaDespite Brownsville Independent School District Superintendent Esperanza Zendejas' professed ignorance about how 40 rings for 28 players and 11 non-players of the Porter Early College...
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SAN BENE BEATS BROWNTOWN, ADOPTS CODE OF ETHICS
(Ed.'s Note: Six years ago, when Brownsville Mayor (and attorney) Tony Martinez took office, he promised he would draft and pass a code of ethics for the city. For that lofty purpose, he tapped on city...
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SPRING BREAK NEVER THE SAME AFTER KILROY MURDER
By Juan MontoyaIt was during Texas Week during Spring Break in March 1989 when University of Texas premed student Mark Kilroy vanished on the streets of Matamoros, Mexico.He disappeared during an...
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ANILLOGATE: RODRIGUEZ'S FINGERPRINTS ALL OVER IT; DID ZENDEJAS OBSTRUCT PROBE...
By Juan MontoyaJoe Rodriguez retired as Athletic Director of the Brownsville Independent School District in 2009.But he told Brownsville Herald sports writer Roy Hess that just three years before, in...
View ArticleD.A. STUMBLES AGAIN: JURY RETURNS NOT GUILTY VERDICT
Special to El Rrun-RrunMarisa Govea Hernandez has been found not guilty of the accidental death of Maria Elizabeth Guzman Tipton.The police lost a surveillance tape.They lost the victims' clothes, and...
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BORDERLINE IDIOT EDDIE LUCIO JR. BORDER MAN OF THE YEAR
By Juan MontoyaComing off a fresh round of widespread rejection of his plan to abolish nine school districts and their elected boards in Cameron County to set up a countywide district initially headed...
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"NY" ART DEFACER PROFILED AS RACIST MISANTHROPE
(Ed.'s Note: At first the criminal homophobic tagger was a mere nuisance. Hiding under cover of darkness like a sneak thief, he defaced the paintings of Latin artists and musicians local artists had...
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A BELATED 61ST BIRTHDAY TO GEORGEOUS GEORGE
By Juan MontoyaOur attention was called to a Facebook entry that says that former Cameron County Investigator and Port of Brownsville Police Chief George Gavito turned 61 on Saturday.We heard he was in...
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N.Y. BANKERS, S. TEXAS BARONS PROPPED DIAZ IN POWER
By Juan MontoyaIt was December of 1875 when future Mexican dictator Profirio Diaz came to Brownsville seeking financial and military help to overthrow democratically-elected President Sebastian Lerdo...
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CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST OVER RINGS, ITABLETS
Special to El Rrun-RrunWas there hanky-panky going on when the Brownsville Independent School District moved to accept a $25,060 "donation" in the form of 28 rings valued at $895 each for the...
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BLOGGER APOLOGIZES TO HIT AND RUN VICTIM
By Jim BartonFrom The Brownsville Observer blogSpecial to El Rrun-RrunI'm sorry Mary. My multitudinous words accomplished nothing.Detective Thomas Clipper shit on your life with his mishandling of a...
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LIMON'S DEATH MARKS THE END OF MARKET SQUARE ERA
By Juan MontoyaHe wasn't a politician or even a man of wealth.But Julian Salazar Limon, who for years ran a Market Square bar that later moved to Adams Street – and also a downtown restaurant on Levee...
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DID BCIC FUND PROMOTION TO AID GOWEN'S REELECTION?
By Juan MontoyaIt has hardly been open for business for a month, but the 7th and park Coffee shop has already been the recipient of free advertisement courtesy of the city and the Brownsville Community...
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ARE JOE ROD, ZENDEJAS CONFLICTED ON RINGS QUESTION?
By Juan MontoyaOn Wednesday's specially called meeting of the board of trustees of the Brownsville Independent School District, the festering question on what to do about the $25,060 ring "donation"...
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CITY IN THE GRIP OF CRACK COCAINE EPIDEMIC
By Juan MontoyaEach morning Minnie (not her real name) wakes up in some deserted building downtown where she had been smoking crack the night before. There is never a lack of those in and around the...
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VOTE TIE ON RINGS KEEPS TOXIC ISSUE ALIVE AT BISD
By Juan MontoyaFor the third time, the trustees on the board of the Brownsville Independent School District cast a 3-3 vote with one abstention and decided not to accept after-the-fact donation of...
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NOWADAYS WE JUST DON'T GET NO RESPECT AROUND HERE
(Ed.'s Note: That's what those plastic owls must be saying to themselves as a black bird perched on the corner of a wall on the Murphy gas station at Walmart seems to be taunting them with its chatter....
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