READY FOR THIS BUNCH? SWEARING IN FOR NEW BATCH

Cameron County Clerk Joe Rivera administers the oath of office to newly-elected officials during a Monday ceremony at the Oscar Dancy Buildi...

ARE YOU ALL IN...CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS STUFF?

By Juan Montoya We understand that despite the badly-worded agenda item that was pulled from the agenda last time before it went for consid...

NO ONE ELECTED PERSON OF THE YEAR 2012

By T. Herman Zweibel Publisher Emeritus The Onion No one. Yes, you deciphered those words correctly, simpleton news-reader: Every human in t...

SANCHEZ KEEPS GNAWING AT COUNTY JUDGE CANDIDACY

By Juan Montoya Ever since he was elected as Cameron County Commissioner for Precinct 4, Dan Sanchez has not been very successful at flying ...

SALAZAR WEDS COUPLE NEW YEAR'S DAY: COURT WORKERS INSECURE

By Juan Montoya Put on your Tuesday best in 2013 so you can take part in the wedding ceremonies to be hosted by Justice of the Peace Linda S...

IT'S BEEN AT HALF STAFF LONG ENOUGH

By Juan Montoya That flag has flown half-staff too long Brought down in unavailing grief too long It's flown half staff when it recalls ...

ATKINSON'S HANDIWORK: CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST

By Juan Montoya The troubles started right after the Brownsville Independent School District administration named Sylvia Atkinson the Asst. ...

LOONEY LENNY PUTS DASTARDLY ARSONISTS ON NOTICE

By Juan Montoya Not quite ready-for-prime-time Brownsville Fire Chief Lenny Perez says he is ready to nab the dastardly arsonists who he say...

FROM ALEJANDRO: A SELF-SERVING GOODBYE WITH NO QUESTIONS ASKED OR ALLOWED

By Juan Montoya Sunday's self-serving paid goodbye ad by former 357th District Judge Leonel Alejandro on his leaving the bench two years...

IS SOMEONE PUTTING THE HEX ON MELISSA CASTRO?

By Juan Montoya A few years ago in a previous lifetime when I was a road and bridge precinct supervisor for Cameron County, we had just won ...

X-MAS WISHES FROM LOCAL LUMINARIES

By Juan Montoya What will be under the tree this Tuesday for some of our local political stars? If you're Chuck Mattingly, who lost to L...

MAYOR'S MAKES NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION: GETS A HAIRCUT

By Juan Montoya We'll we wouldn't have believed it if we hadn't seen it with our own eyes. There was the Honorable His Majesty D...

VALLES FLYING MACHINE CRASH LANDS AT JOHN LENNON PARK END-OF-THE-WORLD PARTY, LENNON AND HARRISON THERE IN SPIRIT

It was billed as the party to end all parties, a kind of apocalyptic binge of music and planet alignment extravaganza in Olmito's John L...

THE PIG: FAR FROM HOME AND NO CHICHARRONES OR CARNITAS IN SIGHT

By Juan Montoya I ran into Felipe in a honky-tonk bar in Brownsville somewhat by accident. I had not seen him for months, although I had hea...

HAMMER WILL BE HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. ALLELUJAH!

By Juan Montoya By the time you read this, the man at right, former marine Jon Hammar, detained since August in the notorious Cartel-ridden...

FORMER B'VILLIAN COMES OUT OF CLOSET AT NOTRE DAME

By Sam Stryker News Editor CNN Mia Lillis is a junior originally Brownsville, Texas who transferred to Notre Dame from Austin, Texas, with ...

COACH JOE SYNDROME: BROWNTOWN'S HALL OF INFAMY

By Juan Montoya Former Brownsville Independent School District Athletic Director Joe Rodriguez's chance to grab at the brass ring came o...