We were having coffee with some of our friends at a downtown cafe within spitting distance of the Brownsville Municipal Court and City Hall when we noticed a profusion of small plastic bags often used by jewelers to pack small items for their customers.
As we stood by the door of the restaurant, one of our friends pointed to the curb by a parked truck and said that the crack and cocaine dealers are apparently doing a land-rush business by the number of plastic bags littering the street. We counted no less than nine or 10 bags on the curb, some of them still containing white residue.
While merchants complain of the lack of business downtown, it is obvious that some people are doing very well, thank you. The three bags you see above were just a small number of those that we co9uld see all up and down the curb. Business – someone's business – is apparently on the upswing.
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