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RIGO, A LA WOODS, IS RUNNING FOR COUNTY WHAT????
By Juan MontoyaRemember the days and months before the election for Cameron County judge when John Wood, the current Brownsville Navigation Commissioner and former Pct. 2 Cameron County commissioner,...
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PAROLE BOARD DENIES GONZALEZ FREEDOM: CITES VIOLENT NATURE OF CRIMES,...
By Juan MontoyaThe Texas Department of Criminal Justice Parole Review Board has denied the application of Marco Antonio Gonzales for early conditional release citing the violent nature of the crimes of...
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STUDY POINTS TO GBIC-BEDC ECO-DEV "DISCONNECT": FOR $1.6 MILLION A YEAR, CITY...
By Juan MontoyaYears ago, current interim Brownsville Economic Development Council CEO Jose Herrera would make presentations in his role as a member of the BEDC's nine-member executive committee...
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A SOUTH TEXAS MOM'S MEMORIAL DAYS
By Juan MontoyaDoña Mari is having a pulga, once againShe’s pulled out the folding table and laid the clean white cloth upon itand neatly, like an undertaker,lays out her goodsAlong the river road that...
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ALL NEW STUFF FOR BIKE-HIKE TRAIL: AND BUS SHELTERS?
(Ed.'s Note: One of our seven readers noticed that there were new trash receptacles and benches along the bike and hike trails and wondered why people like the lady above waiting for the bus were not...
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WE HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS, AND SOME BAD NEWS...
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FALLOUT FROM MEMORIAL DAY: SAY "SOMETHING," BRO
By Juan MontoyaWell, seems like we'll see no end to the goings on after the silent march held on Memorial Day at Veterans Park on Central Blvd.Things were going along swimmingly and Mariano "Bean"...
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SAN BENITO REELS AFTER UNDER RECORDING-GATE PROBE
By Fernando del ValleStaff WriterThe Valley Morning StarSAN BENITO — The city will launch an investigation based on Police Chief Michael Galvan’s private recordings of conversations downloaded from the...
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BEDC-GBIC STRUCTURE: A SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE?
By Juan MontoyaAs city leaders come to the realization that the funds dedicated through the Greater Brownsville Incentives corporation through its subcontractor Brownsville Economic development Council...
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THE BRIDGE OVER FLORIDA ROAD: A TEXAS RINCHE TALE
By Juan MontoyaIt was the early 1980s and in those days each commissioner ran their own Road and Bridge crews in Cameron County.Local attorney D.J. Lerma had been appointed county judge after Jack...
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CITY TRIES TO TIE DOWN COUNTY ON WEST RAIL TRAIL
By Juan MontoyaFirst they tried to get the Cameron County Commissioners Court to "adopt" something called the Lower Rio Grande Valley Active Transportation and Tourism Plan.When the commissioners...
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WILL CITY'S BAN ON TELEVISING PUBLIC COMMENTS END?
By Juan MontoyaWill the City of Brownsville's six year-old ban on broadcasting the public comments made during commissioners' meetings on the city's Channel 12 come to an end this Tuesday?An item on...
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SAN BENE PD CHIEF'S RECORDINGS GATE SAGA THICKENS
By Fernando del ValleStaff WriterValley Morning StarSAN BENITO — A police officer is claiming former Police Chief Martin Morales agreed to dismiss her sexual harassment case to protect Police Chief...
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PARAGON SLIPS IN TO DO $MILLIONS AT BISD, CITY IS NEXT
By Juan MontoyaThe first time anyone in Brownsville heard of Paragon Sports, the artificial turf company out of Ft. Worth, it was when administrators of the Brownsville Independent School District...
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EQUAL TIME: ACKNOWLEDGE SPANIARD ATROCITIES, TOO
(Ed.'s Note: We have often been taken to task when we post stories about abuses by the U.S. military, the Texas Rangers, Charles Stillman and his buddies Richard King and Mifflin Kenedy, et al, on...
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WITH ELECTIONS OVER, EVERYTHING ROSIE IN SAN PEDRO
By Juan MontoyaA few weeks before this year's City of Brownsville commission elections, incumbents John Villarreal and Rose Gowen suddenly realized that San Pedro, which is inside the city boundaries,...
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THE DAY DRINKING WATER CAME TO SALDIVAR ACRES COLONIA
By  Juan MontoyaFor years after they bought their lots in the Salazar Acres Subdivision in the margins of the southeast Brownsville city limits, the residents had to do without water connections from...
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NEW LEGAL POLICY: PUT BACK THE MONEY AND YOU CAN GO
By Juan MontoyaOne day before he was scheduled to go to trial on charges of abuse of official capacity, theft by a public servant and misapplication of fiduciary property, the Cameron County District...
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BISD'S ARAMBULA FILES GRIEVANCE: RECYCLING CONTRACT
By Juan MontoyaMartin Arambula, the Policy-Records Management director for the Brownsville Independent School District has filed a grievance against Assistant Superintendent Carlos Guerra, and the BISD...
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CITY, PUB CHALLENGED ON ON MOUs: MUM's THE WORD
By Juan MontoyaBack in December 2012, the Brownsville Public Utilities Board, the city and Tenaska entered into a Memorandum Of Understanding that resulted in a steep hike in utility rates (35 percent...
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