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RENE CARDENAS: "DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS MY FAMILY DOES."
(Ed.'s Note: The hypocritical address given by Rene Cardenas during the public comment at a city commission meeting where he questioned the commitment of public officials to act with integrity and...
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WILL COUNSEL QUESTION CABLER'S GOLDEN PARACHUTE?
By Juan MontoyaOn Tuesday, the City of Brownsville Commission will meet to accept former city manager Charlie Cabler's retirement which was effective when he submitted October 10.But there are...
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REPORT: FEDS, BPD. DESCEND ON CARLOS ELIZONDO'S HOUSE
Special to El Rrun-RrunEyewitness reports indicate that vehicles bearing U.S. government plates accompanied by several units of the Brownsville Police Dept. have descended at the home of Carlos...
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WHY IS MARTINEZ TRAMPLING ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER? TETREAU FILES AFFIDAVIT ON...
By Juan MontoyaWe have gone over the video of the Oct. 3 City of Brownsville Commission meeting, specifically item 7, which reads: Consideration and action to appoint one member to the Greater...
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ELIZONDO ARRESTED AFTER HE BOLTS FROM LAWYER'S OFFICE AND BROWNSVILLE POLICE...
By Juan MontoyaCarlos Elizondo, the former Brownsville Fire Chief, has been arrested and is in custody of law enforcement, a source close to the investigation has confirmed.An all-points alert had been...
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PUB BOARD MEMBER NURITH GALONSKY APPOINTED TO GBIC
Special to El Rrun-RrunAfter a contentious debate over whether to change the City of Brownsville minutes of the October 3 meeting to reflect what Commissioner Jessica Tetreau said was a mistaken record...
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ELIZONDO FALLOUT: NO PASSPORT, SUSPENDED W-OUT PAY
By Juan MontoyaHow low the mighty have fallen.At the arraignment, when the Cameron County District Attorney's Office was demanding that Associate Judge Louis Sorola impose two $35,000 bonds on former...
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EMPEROR TONY MARTINEZ VOTED SOB OF THE YEAR
By Juan MontoyaIf you have a chance, log in to the City of Brownsville website and watch the Oct. 17 meeting of the city commission.Go to the approval of the minutes item on the agenda and watch an...
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GRUMPY CUSTOMER GIVES A GIFT FROM THE GREAT BEYOND
By Billie SodenWalter “Buck” Swords was an 89-year-old grump. He was a curmudgeon, complainer, and malcontent whiner for the 7 years he was a customer at the Brownsville, Texas restaurant at which...
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A TACO A DAY, KEEPS THE GABACHOS AT BAY...
El Taco By Juan MontoyaEvery time Andres passes by the old huisache tree, he smiles.He can still remember the small group of boys sitting in its shade under the scalding South Texas sun at Little Elm...
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NATIVE AMERICANS HAD THEIR OWN "AMISTAD" EPISODE
By Juan MontoyaThe year was 1515.Spanish Queen Isabella had, in 1503, issued the astonishing and momentous order to permit the enslavement of natives in the New World "discovered" by Columbus only 11...
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THE TANGLED WEB OF CORRUPTION OF EX-GOVERNOR
Various SourcesAfter a judge ordered former Tamaulipas governor Eugenio Hernández jailed pending his trial for charges of embezzlement with illegally acquired funds and the use of middle men to acquire...
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EXHIBIT OF SHAME AT BISD'S LEARNING ACADEMY
Special to El Rrun-RrunWhile a majority of the board of the Brownsville Independent School District continue to focus on expensive non-academic expenditures – for example, spending in excess of of $6...
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REMEMBER WEIGHING-IN COTTON ON "LA ROMANA" SCALE?
(Ed.'s Note: If you are in your 60s or 70s and grew up in the Rio Grande Valley, you probably saw people picking cotton by hand before the advent of the cotton-picking machines. If you were poor, you...
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WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PICTURES? STATE OF HEALTH
This is a chart of the stock price of United Healthcare (UNH) since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare):Up almost 400% in just 5 years, coupled with steep annual premium increases
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GET BACK TO WHERE YOU ONCE BELONGED, GET BACK MIKE!
By Juan MontoyaRemember Mike Gonzalez, the totally ineffectual CEO of the shadow government called United Brownsville?Come to think of it, remember United Brownsville?It all started when former City of...
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THE BEST-LAID PLANS OF MAYOR TONY MARTINEZ AND MINIONS
(Ed.'s Note: Work continues –forever , it seems, on the city's plan to improve Market Square, the once bustling center of commercial life in Brownsville. Proponents of the pan to "gentrify" downtown...
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OFF IN THE EMERALD ISLE, PAT'S SURROUNDED BY THE GREEN
By Juan MontoyaAs local tongues wag about the frequency of instances where some local politicians have been caught on recordings demanding their quid pro quo, some local wags remember conversations...
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BREAKING NEWS: AMERICAN SURVEILLANCE OWNER JAIME ESCOBEDO NABBED BY DPS FOR...
Special to El Rrun-RrunNumerous reports indicate that American Surveillance Co. owner Jaime Escobedo was arrested by agents for the Department of Public Safety for alleged violations of the Texas...
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