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FAKE NEWS FROM MCALLEN BLOGGER AGAINST SOROLAS GOES ON; FACTS GET IN THE WAY...
By Juan MontoyaFor months now, we have heard that an out-of-town blogger has been beating on a dead horse and ragging Associate District Judge Louis Sorola and his wife JP 2-3 Mary Esther about...
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IS NURITH GALONSKY BEING GROOMED FOR MAYOR?
By Juan MontoyaThat's what some people are wondering about Nurith Galonsky, a local resident who has been appointed to some of the most important boards on the City of Brownsville.For example, she is a...
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SCARY-LOOKING VAN-TRUCK ACCIDENT, BUT NO ONE HURT
(Ed,'s Note: Right at about 3 p.m. today motorists and passersby at the corner of 9th and Adams witnessed a scary accident involving a van and a semi-trailer.None of the members of a family traveling...
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POSSIBLE MPO MERGER HINGES ON GOVERNANCE MODEL; DA MAYOR THROWS WET TOWEL ON...
By Juan MontoyaDespite numbers shared with the policy Committee of the Brownsville Metropolitan Planning Organization by new Texas Dept. of Transportation District Engineer Pete Alvarez showing that...
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TO KBRO: CHARLES STILLMAN DECLARES SLAVES IN CENSUS
"In 1854, Chisum moved to Denton County where he settled on Clear Creek, three miles above the town of Bolivar. He soon went to work for a large rancher as a cowboy and started to develop his own herd....
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IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF CHATO HADN'T ASKED
D.A.R.Chato had just been released on parole from a seven-year stint at Huntsville and was back in Browntown.Over time, he ran into the woman he had been with when he had been nabbed by the...
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INFLUENCE PEDDLING OR INCOMPETENCE EATING UP CITY $?
By Juan MontoyaThe latest change order boondoggle involving the improvements to the terminal building at the Brownsville-South Padre Island International Airport is but the tip of the iceberg of the...
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GLOBALIZATION HAS MARGINALIZED REGIONS IN RICH WORLD
The EconomistEven before the disaster, Scranton had been having a poor century.In 1902 the Lackawanna Steel Company left north-east Pennsylvania in search of better access to transport and a less...
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TEX. HISTORICAL COMM. OKS BUFFALO SOLDIERS' MARKER AT FT. BROWN; THC OKS 4...
Narrative to application for Texas Historical Commission marker at Ft. Brown for Buffalo Soldiers. At the local level applications are handled by Gene Fernandez, Commissioner and Chairman of the Texas...
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TOWN HALL MEETING ON JEFF DAVIS MEMORIAL TONIGHT
(Ed.'s Note: Tonight's the night for the public to voice their opinion on whether the City of Brownsville should remove the Jefferson Davis Memorial (Stone) from Washington Park to another location or...
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THC OKs HISTORICAL MARKER FOR FIRST COUNTY JAIL
Special to El Rrun-Rrun(Part 2, of 4)The Texas Historical Commission has approved the application for a historical marker for the original Cameron County Jail dating back to 1882.The building served as...
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ONCE AGAIN: REPORTS THAT GARZA WAS SUSPENDED, FIRED
Special to El Rrun-RrunThe dust hasn't cleared yet, but just today we have received word that the Cameron County Sheriff's Dept. administration – which had suspended Capt. Carlos Garza from service and...
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ERASMO CASTRO TRIES TO USE TOWN HALL AS HIS SOAPBOX
By Juan MontoyaIt was billed as a forum to let the community express their views on whether to move the Jefferson Davis Memorial Monument out of Washington Park to another, less prominent site.But from...
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MELEE IN THE HOOSEGOW: 60 INMATES CHARGED W/FIGHTING
\Special to El Rrun-RrunAt least 60 inmates at the Cameron County Rucker-Carrizales Corrections Center in Olmito were charged with fighting after an all-out melee broke out in the jail.Details are...
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C'MON. WOULD YOU VOTE FOR THIS, AHEM, MAN FOR JP?
(Ed.'s Note: Truth-challenged and disbarred attorney Robert Wightman is publicly threatening to run for office again. IF he can get people to give him money; IF he can get volunteers to bock walk for...
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THE NOOSE TIGHTENS FOR SHERIFF DEPARTMENT CAPTAIN
Special to El Rrun-RrunIn at least two previous posts we have detailed the troubles surrounding suspended Capt. Carlos Garza who was sent home without his badge or service weapon about two weeks...
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COMMISSION APROVES ESPIRITU SANTO LAND GRANT MARKER
Special to El Rrun-RrunThe Brownsville Historical Association has received word that the Texas State Historical Commission has approved the application for a historical marker to be placed on the...
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SOME CITY TOWING COMPANIES GOUGING LOCAL MOTORISTS
By Juan MontoyaIt is s a scene repeated on daily basis in Brownsville.A motorist parks his or her car on a parking lot and goes about to do his business unaware that the owner or parent company has...
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