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DOMINGUEZ SE SACA LA DAGA, APPLIES FOR DIST. 37 JOB
(Ed.'s Note: Since April 28, when the news that his opponent in the runoff election for District 37 State Rep. incumbent Rene Oliveira had caused an accident by slamming into the rear of a car driven...
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A HERMAPHRODITE'S TALE ON THE SEXUAL AND SOCIAL FRINGE
By Juan MontoyaWhen she was born, Cynthia's (not her real name) parents in a poor colonia near Tampico, Tamaulipas, were amazed and distraught.They found out that she was both a girl and a boy. Unlike...
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LA BABOSA SAYS WE'RE THE BEST SHOW? HOW ABOUT HIM?
By Juan MontoyaEight years ago, Chase Bank sent a large mailing to potential customers who might want to apply for a credit card.Instantly, because one was sent to him and another person who had been...
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VALADEZ, CASCOS' ADMIN ASST: $500 T0 PUT UP SIGNS 4 RENE
By Juan Montoya How long has Cris Valadez, the administrative assistant for former GOP Texas Secretary of State and former Cameron County Judge Carlos...
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OLIVEIRA: PROMISE THEM THE WORLD, AND GIVE THEM LNGs
By Juan MontoyaPatrick Anderson, who has made a run for a seat at the Brownsville Navigation District Commission has been promised that he'll get District 37 State Rep. Rene Oliveira's support when he...
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DISTRICT 37 IS NOT RENE'S ATM: VOTE 4 CHANGE, VOTE ALEX.
VOTE IN TODAY'S RUNOFF ELECTIONSThe Democratic Party runoff election today also gives that party's followers the choice of nominating Sheriff Lupe Valdez or Andrew White to be the challenger against...
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AND NOW, A RESPITE FROM PEDESTRIAN POLITICS, LITERATURE
"And they went out in certain seasons to hunt enemies; they called it ‘la guerra florida.’" Julio Cortazar, The Night Face Up."By Juan MontoyaIt has been said elsewhere that when the Aztec emperor...
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FINE WORKS OF ART FOR A TRIFLE: LA CALACA ARMADA
(Ed.'s Note: It's not often that you can walk in downtown Brownsville and find art works such as this fine rendition of la calavera sitting with a bottle of tequila and strumming on a shotgun (yeah, I...
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YA BASTA! CALL A SPADE A SPADE: OLIVERIA LIED. VOTE ALEX
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DOMINGUEZ OVERCOMES PRIMARY DEFICIT, UNSEATS RENE
By Juan MontoyaIncumbent District 37 State Rep. Rene Oliveira and his campaign team may not have known it, but by the time the polls opened Tuesday for election day, they were already 482 votes behind...
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A REAWAKENING; COB, PUB CONTINUE TO SCREW THE PEOPLE
By Juan MontoyaFew people noticed an agenda item in the City of Brownsville commission's agenda last week approving the issuance of $26 million in utility revenue bonds for the Public Utility Board...
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HAVE YOU SEEN THE LITTLE PIGGIES, CRAWLING IN THE DIRT
By Juan Montoya...Under the lights, luring the barrio boys...They are there, where the blue-collar workers go,The carpenters, mechanics, those who toil with their handsAll gravitate toward congales en...
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THE ONION: TRUMP; I'LL BE DEAD IN ABOUT 15 TO 20 YEARS
(Recently it has been learned that Donald J. Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen demanded that the satirical publication The Onion remove a piece it wrote about the death of the now-president in 2013. Cohen...
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MOM CHARGES STRONG ARMED ROBBERY VS. HANNA ROTC
By Juan MontoyaA local mom whose daughter is enrolled in the Hanna Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) has field a complaint with the Brownsville Police Department charging that ROTC...
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NUGGETS OF WISDOM FOR DOMINGUEZ FROM THE 3 SISTERS
Jerry McHale, endorsed Rene Oliveira"Nevertheless, life is the moment and it's been an entertaining series of moments during this long campaign season. "According to The McHale Report's last poll,...
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THE OLIVEIRA LOSS TO DOMINGUEZ, BY THE NUMBERS
EARLY VOTING (May 14-18)Alex Dominguez 2,131Rene Oliveria 1,530 Difference 601 + DominguezMAIL-IN VOTESAlex Dominguez 164Rene Oliveira...
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CITY MOVES TO CORRECT DECADES-OLD STREET SNAFU
By Juan MontoyaFifteen years ago Jimmy and Janie Perez bought a commercially-zoned lot adjacent to the frontage road along us 77 and bound on the other side by Paredes Line Road.It seemed like a good...
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OFFSHORE TERMINAL PLANNED FOR PORT OF BROWNSVILLE
By Sergio ChapaSan Antonio Business JournalA Dallas-area midstream company has plans to add super tanker service to an export terminal it is building at the Port of Brownsville.JupiterMLP LLC – which...
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