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CITY ROLLING AWAY ZIKA MOSQUITO BREEDING HAVENS
(Ed.s' Note: You have until 2 p.m.today or until the container is full to get rid of the mosquito-breeding tires you may have lying around the shed in the backyard. Today's City of Brownsville Tire...
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BROWNSVILLE SCALES BACK LAND GRAB OF NEARBY CITIES
By Juan MontoyaIn the same meeting Tuesday where members of the City of Brownsville Commission will be asked to approve the annexation of a 1.25-acre lot in the city's northside petitioned by the...
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OVERSIGHT, ACCOUNTABILITY COMING TO A COB NEAR YOU
By Juan MontoyaIn one fell swoop, members of the City of Brownsville Commission will be asked to approve and authorize the creation of three committees which will take a direct hand in performing audit...
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WITH AN OLD BUILDING ACROSS 7TH ST., NO PARKING AT ZOO
(Ed.'s Note: It was bumper-to-bumper parking again at the Gladys Porter Zoo and the cars spilled over into neighboring streets as the visitors to the zoo looked for a place which would be closest to...
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CITY UNVEILS NEW RETAINER POND AT BARNARD AND PRICE
(E.'s Note: The City of Brownsville unveiled an innovative concept in runoff water control: designating street intersections as temporary retainer ponds. The novel idea was hatched in the inner...
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BPUB TO CONSIDER LOWERING ELECTRIC RATES BY 15 %
By Juan MontoyaAfter enduring a 35 percent increase in electric rates that started four years ago, Brownsville residents may see a glimmer of hope in Monday's 5 p.m. meeting of the Brownsville Public...
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WOULD YOU PAY CLOSE TO $1 MILLION FOR THIS BUILDING?
By Juan MontoyaTo area contractors doing business with the city, this municipality is change order heaven.Whether it's renovating an old building or building one all together, they know that asking the...
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GBIC BYLAWS CHANGE COULD BE BEDC'S DEATH KNELL
By Juan MontoyaA change in the bylaws of the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation's bylaws establishing a committee to vet potential economic development projects the 4A organization could fund...
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DID SAN BENE PROBE REALLY CLEAR P.D. CHIEF GALVAN?
By Fernando del ValleStaff WriterValley Morning StarSAN BENITO — An investigation has cleared Police Chief Michael Galvan of any wrongdoing in connection with his privately recorded conversations that...
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BUNGEE JUMPING COMING TO 14TH STREET CANTINA
By Ima LushSpecial to El Rrun-RrunBungee jumping is coming to La Catroce Bar!That establishment, which has traditionally catered to brown-collared patrons from the local barrios since its original...
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MARTINEZ AND BILLIONAIRE PAL MUSK: THE FUTURE IS HERE
Brownsville Mayor Tony Martinez asked Elon Musk – the billionaire owner of SpaceX – what he saw when he looked out at the water off Boca Chica Beach."The future," Martinez said that Musk had...
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6 YEARS AFTER HIS PASSING, WE REMEMBER GIL SCOTT-HERON
(Ed.'s note: Many of us who grew up listening to the origins of "political rap" as practiced by The Last Poets that included ghetto bard par excellence Gil Scott-Heron were saddened when he passed away...
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SPANISH-CHALLENGED FOLKS DON'T GET EL RRUN-RRUN
(Verbo Intr.) RONRONEAR: producir una especie de ronquido, en demostración de contento. Murmurar. Real Academia Española(Ed.'s Note: We have been asked by our Spanish-challenged monolingual friends...
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A STORY OF KNEE-SLAPPING DISCRIMINATION IN THE MIDWEST
By Juan MontoyaSome time back in one of our former lifetimes, we lived and worked in a small southwest Minnesota town named Worthington.To call it rural would be an understatement. There were perhaps...
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PRIMOS, UNCLES AND BROTHERS (P.U.B.), B'TOWN SYNDROME
By Juan MontoyaIn 1997, when the Brownsville-Matamoros Bridge Company erected a new concrete, four-lane toll bridge adjacent to the original (old) bridge to handle automobile traffic, the late bridge...
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SAN BENE CITIZENS QUESTION LEGITIMACY OF "INVESTIGATION"
By Juan MontoyaThe dust hasn't cleared on the San Benito Recordingsgate scandal.Less than a week after the City Attorney Ricardo Morado said three "outside investigative agencies" cleared Police Chief...
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UTRGV STUDENTS GET CLASS CLOSURES WHILE IN CLASS
By Juan MontoyaSeveral classes of students at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley think they got shoddy treatment from the school's administration after they were told by email that the courses...
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NEECE HOSTS POST-ELECTION FUNDRAISER AT 1/2 MOON
(Ed.'s Note: Former Chief Municipal Judge Ben Neece, now District 4 City of Brownsville Commissioner, will host a post-election fundraiser Thursday to retire some campaign expenses with a Casino Night...
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AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN: TRANSMIGRANTES TRAVEL
By Juan MontoyaAround mid-June, an accident involving trucks being sent into Latin America by local transmigrantes resulted in the death of a Guatemalan man who was crushed when a semi-trailer cab...
View ArticleELEVEN UFOS DRIVE EL MANTE BAR PATRONS WILD
(Ed.'s Note: Patrons at Moy's El Mante Lounge facing the corner where 14th Street meets Southmost Road, were astonished to see 11 lights flying in an irregular pattern this past Saturday night. Many...
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