TAKE WEST NILE VIRUS SERIOUSLY: A CASE FROM 2002

By Juan Montoya The discovery of a mosquito infected with the West Nile virus at the Galaxia Subdivision near the Rio Grande just west of La...

ZAYAS FROM HARLINGEN NOW? CONFLICT? WHAT CONFLICT? NOT TO BROWNSVILLE HERALD OR NEWSHOUND GARY LONG

By Juan Montoya From the very beginning of the story written by Rick Zayas-Ruben Cortez megaphone Gary Long of the Brownsville Herald , read...

BROWNSVILLE SAFEST DRIVING CITY IN TEXAS... REALLY?

(You're coming up to an intersection with a  side street on International Blvd. and you can just tell that the car with yellow Tamaulipa...

POLITICS OF GREED AND MEAN: JROD, CHAVEZ (jrod jr.) AND ZAYAS TARGET CATY (WE MEAN FORENSIC AUDITOR DEFENBAUGH); SAY THEY WANT $1 MILLION, TOO

By Juan Montoya Not content that he was let off the hook and allowed to walk away from two lawsuits in which he was a defendant and which co...

MAYOR SHOWS TRUE COLORS: FIRM DEFENDS HERNANDEZ'S CAMP VOTER FRAUD IN YOLANDA BEGUM'S LAWSUIT

By Juan Montoya While Hizzoner and self-declared King of Brownsville Tony Martinez has set out to reconstruct Browntown as we know it, he ha...

IT TOOK OUTSIDERS TO SET BROWNTOWN STRAIGHT

"A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house." Matthew 13:57 By Juan Montoya That admonishment...

DYNASTY POLITICS IS THE SCOURGE OF SOUTH TEXAS

By Juan Montoya For 28 years, U.S, Congressman Solomon Ortiz cloaked himself with the mantle of the District 27 Congressional office (now Di...

VOTING ABUSE OF HAULED-IN ELDERLY DONE IN PLAIN SIGHT

By Juan Montoya For at least five days of the week preceding the July 31 runoff elections, anyone going by the early-voting sites at main co...

BANALES NIXES DE LEON'S INDEPENDENT CONGRESSIONAL BID

By Juan Montoya Most observers of the local political scene would not have given Independent Don De Leon a chance of winning the election to...

LOOSE CANNON MINERVA PENA IMPLODES, PANDERS FOR SUPPORT

By Juan Montoya With characteristic bombast and fluster, Brownsville Independent School District trustee Minerva Peña is doing her best impr...

UTB'S LEECHING OFF TSC STOPS IN 2015, LEAN TIMES PREDICTED FOR JULIET

By Juan Montoya While the University of Texas System regents continue to hem and haw about where exactly in the Brownsville area they will p...

MEXICAN CONSUL IN BROWNSVILLE FACES HARSH CRITICISM

By Juan Montoya The ruling by a federal magistrate in the southern U.S. Southern District federal court that the family of Juan Pablo Perez ...

WHY BISD SETTLED: WHY THROW GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD?

By Juan Montoya Ruben Cortez, one of the former trustees who were the main reason for the current majority on the board of the Brownwville I...

ROSENTHAL APPEALS LOPEZ'S "DEATH PENALTY" ORDER IN RAILROAD CASE, DEMANDS SHE RECUSE HERSELF AND ANOTHER JUDGE BE APPOINTED

By Juan Montoya Reiterating that Judge District Judge Migdalia Lopez retaliated against him and his clients by imposing a "death penalt...

BOIL BOIL, TOIL AND TROUBLE AT ELECTION TIME

"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble..." from Macbeth, William Shakespeare By Juan Montoya And so the ...