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BREAKING NEWS: BREAK-IN VICTIM WAS CITY COMISH NEECE; HIS SURVEILLANCE VIDEO...
By Juan MontoyaA freelance social media news reporter has posted – and City of Brownsville Commissioner Ben Neece has confirmed – that he was the victim of a car break-in the predawn hours Monday where...
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OFF TO A SLOW START AT 10 A.M, WAIT AFTER COFFEE
(Ed.'s Note: It has been one of those slow mornings Click on graphic to enlarge. The chillens were off to school, it is the day before TGIF, and Thanksgiving – and even lazier week – is just over the...
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BISD LOPEZ RUNNING AGAIN TO CONTINUE MILKING DISTRICT
By Juan MontoyaThe last time he ran in 2014, Cesar Lopez made a lot of hay over the First Amendment lawsuit filed against the district and its board majority by trustees Catalina Presas-Garcia and Luci...
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LAND O'LAKES FOLKS REACT: PAINT OVER ANTI-COP GRAFFITI
(Ed.'s Note: This wall, on an alley on Creekbend, bore graffiti offensive graffiti to the Brownsville Police Department who brushed it off as a prank. It is interesting to note that the home of former...
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HEART ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT SUFFERS HEART ATTACK
By Susan Scutti CNNThe president of the American Heart Association, Dr. John Warner, had a minor heart attack Monday during the organization's scientific conference taking place in Anaheim, California,...
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REALITY SETS IN FOR BIKE-HIKE TRAIL ONLY ADVOCATES
By Juan MontoyaWhat part of "compromise" don't the retirees advocating for a trail-only use for the abandoned Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way between FM 802 and Alton Gloor understand?Even their...
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GARCIA'S ACTIONS AGAINST TSC BETRAY FIDUCIARY TRUST
Fiduciary Responsibility: A legal obligation of one party to act in the best interest of another. The obligated party is typically a fiduciary, that is, someone entrusted with the care of money or...
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MAYOR'S PRINTS ERASED FROM TERMINAL EXPANSION OVERRUN; FIRM ASSOCIATED WITH...
ORIGINAL LETTER IN NOV. 7 CITY COMMISSIONER PACKETSANITIZED LETTER IN PACKET FOR NOV. 7 MEETING WITHOUT MENTIONING MAYOR NOW ONLINEBy Juan MontoyaWe never expected to find this when we made an info...
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CHANGING TIMES: THE FUTURE OF TRUTH; WHO, WHERE, WHY
By Susan HuttonUniversity of MichiganLSA MagazineIt is the summer of 2017 and Rebecca Blumenstein, a deputy managing editor of the New York Times, is wondering what is going to happen next. “Everything...
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A FEW QUESTIONS WE'D LOVE TO SEE THE ANSWERS TO
By Juan MontoyaEvery year, the accounting firm of Patillo Brown & Hill does the audit for the Brownsville Independent School District.Aside from bean-counting of revenues and expenditures and...
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KIDS GLOVES ARE OFF: MARTINEZ IS ALL OUT FOR HIMSELF
Canto XLVWith Apologies to Ezra PoundWith UsuraWith Martinez hath no man a house of good stoneeach block cut smooth and well fittingthat design might cover their face,with Tonyhath no man a painted...
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MARTINEZ'S DEAL ON NOT MERGING 3 MPOs DEFENDED
By Desi Martinez, M.A.Harlingen, TexasWhat was not mentioned is that the 3 existing MPO’s would be dissolved and 1 regional MPO would be created with a set of bylaws that would have members...
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POLITICAL CAMPAIGN SIGNS VANDALISM GETTING BRAZEN
(Ed.'s Note: The vandals defacing the various political candidates' signs across town are getting even more brazen. Apart from vandalizing signs at some of the most traveled intersections and...
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MARTINEZ: THE PROVERBIAL PIOUS BULL IN THE CHINA SHOP
By Juan MontoyaAnywhere else, it can safely be said that if an elected officials did what Cit of Brownsville Mayor Tony Martinez acted as imperiously without any regard for the public trust, he would...
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WORKERS HAVING A BLAST REPAINTING BESTEIRO CABOOSE
(Ed.'s Note: The caboose getting sandblasted is located at the Linear Park and was dedicated to the memory of the late Raul Besteiro, a former Brownsville Independent School District and director of...
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FREE WEDDINGS: DAMN IF YOU DO, DAMNED IF YOU DON'T
By Juan MontoyaWhen JP 2-3 Mary Esther Sorola announced that she had had it with the squabbling and haggling over weddings on the second floor of the new Cameron County Levee Building and would...
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FOR THOSE OF US WHO TRAVELED OUT OF TOWN...
By Juan MontoyaIt's the time again for the Montoyas to head north to the central Texas location and meet the dispersed tribe for Thanksgiving.For us it's Bastrop, in the watershed of the Colorado and...
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THANKSGIVING, DAY TO GIVE THANKS...TO AMERICA'S NATIVES
By Juan MontoyaJust over 525 years ago, natives of a Caribbean island woke up to find three boatloads of hungry (and lost) Europeans announcing to them that they had been discovered. What’s more, they...
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IN CUERO, A CHISHOLM TRIAL MUSEUM. IN BROWNSVILLE, NADA
By Juan MontoyaO the way back from Bastrop, where we and the chillun spent Thanksgiving with the kinfolk, we stopped at Rosie's Diner in downtown Cuero for their chicken-fried steak with gravy and the...
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