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RESIDENTS STRUGGLE WITH HIGHER UTILITY RATES WHILE TOP THREE P.U.B. HONCHOS –...
By Juan MontoyaAt the joint meeting of the City of Brownsville Commission and the Public Utilities Board held Dec. 11, 2012, PUB general manager and CEO John Bruciak made his case for the utility to be...
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MAYOR DEMANDS GBIC ACT, CABLER TAGS ALONG AS "MUSCLE"
By Juan MontoyaSome time back, at a presentation by Hinojosa and Estrada, the city's financial consultants, the city commissioners were told that in order for the Brownsville-South Padre Island...
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CYCLOBIA FITS IN FOR ROSE'S VOTES, MARTINEZ'S BUSINESSES
(Ed.'s Note: Have you had a look at the route of the Cinco de Mayo Cyclobia event to be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday? The good news is that this time they won't close downtown and hurt the...
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DID GBIC MEET WITH MAYOR CONSTITUTE A QUORUM?
By Juan MontoyaIt has been brought to our attention that when City of Brownsville Mayor Tony Martinez attended this week's meeting of the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation, he unwillingly...
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IS COWEN RUNNING GOWEN-VILLARREAL'S MAIL-IN VOTE?
By Juan MontoyaAfter we posted the fact that the Cameron County Elections Dept. reported that there had been 267 mail-in ballots requested for the City of Brownsville elections and that 186 had been...
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ZARAGOZA: CHRONOLOGY OF US-MEXICO BINATIONAL HERO
(The hero of Cinco de Mayo Ignacio Zaragoza was born in present-day in Goliad, Texas. After his family moved to Matamoros to escape persecution from the soldiers of the Texas Revolution, he attended...
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AND NOW, A WORD FROM OUR ILLUSTRIOUS B'TOWN TAGGER
(Ed.'s Note: The artwork depicted here adorns the interior and exterior walls of the old Model Laundry on Elizabeth Street next to the bike trail that runs directly behind Sams Stadium. We don't know...
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MELLIE – DESPITE HER HISTORY OF HAUGHTINESS – CRIES FOUL
By Fernando del ValleVMS Staff WriterHARLINGEN — The former director of the Harlingen Convention and Visitors Bureau claims City Manager Dan Serna treated her “unfairly” amid a “hostile” work...
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MAIL-INS NEGLIGIBLE IN DISTRICTS 3,4, NOT AT LARGE
By Juan MontoyaIf you are an enemy of vote harvesting, this year's city election may give you some encouragement.A count of the mail-in votes that have been received as of Friday, indicates that 360...
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CITY ELECTIONS MARK THE START, NOT END, OF POLITICS
By Juan MontoyaThe end of the City of Brownsville commission elections with the election of Joel Munguia for District 3, Ben Neece for District 4, and the reelection of Rose Gowen for the At-Large "B"...
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ON KENNEDY'S 100TH BIRTHDAY, A PASSEL OF MEMORIES
By Juan MontoyaAs a student at Garden Park Elementary School in November 1963, our third-grade class went on a filed trip to Harlingen to see how bread (Holsum Bakery) and ice cream (at Hygeia) was...
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AT FIRE DEPT., A RASH OF PERSONNEL SUSPENSIONS
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others..." from Animal Farm by George Orwell.By Juan MontoyaAdd one more suspension of a veteran Brownsville Fire Department staff member to...
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POST-CIVIL WAR RECONSTRUCTION ENDED FAR TOO SOON
By Walter Birdwell, To: Editor, Brownsville HeraldEditor:The Reconstruction period after the Civil War ended in 1877, and this was far too soon. It should have lasted at least until 1900 and possibly...
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FOR ABBOTT AND HIS FELLOW TEXAS, NO ROOM AT THE INN
By Juan MontoyaNow that Texas Governor Greg Abbott surreptitiously signed into law the prohibition of so-called "sanctuary cities" that requires police to ask the legal status of everyone they stop,...
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TO A LOST BROTHER: ON THIS DAY, SORROW IS OUR OWN YARD
Nothing grows here, in this sorrow yardThe stunted thorn-limbed treesSeem to droop, tired and limpAnd even the dry bushes, wiltAnd sagThe aloe your niece and nephews planted herefor you last yearis...
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JERRY SAYS "HASTA LA VISTA" BABY TO JOHN VILLARREAL
BYE, BYE PAPACITO!!! DA MAYOR (TONY) MARTINEZ AND AMBIOTEC'S CARLOS MARIN USED AND ABUSED YOU!!! (Ed.'s Note: Leave it to local blogger and soon-to-be-retired teacher Jerry McHale [AKA Dr. Gerald F....
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BISD'S SALAZAR SAYS HE HAS VOTES TO WIN S.B. CISD RACES
"Our team is keeping it clean, and I'm proud of that. After all, the voters are the ones that will decide. Regardless...:" Yesenia Gonzalez Costilla, SBCISD Losing Slate SupporterBy Juan MontoyaThe...
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JONES ACT, BANKRUPTCY RIG SALE COULD HELP AMFELS
"The Jones requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried on U.S. flag ships ships, constructed in the United States, owned by U.S. citizens, and crewed by U.S. citizens and...
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IF YOU CAN'T DAZZLE THEM WITH BRILLIANCE, DAZZLE THEM...
By Juan MontoyaThat quote (and its unsavory conclusion) comes to mind after reading that the Brownsville Public Utilities Company received yet another Reliable Public power Provider designation from...
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