The Rio Grande Guardian reports on a youth-oriented town meeting in Edinburg last Friday and says there are more coming, on April 10 at the Pecan campus of South Texas College and in “late April” in Brownsville. The events are sponsored by a grant from the Margaret Casey Foundation to AVANCE-RGV, a non-profit.
–Stan

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The first thing noticed coming out the door of the Reagan National Airport to wait on that fabled shuttle from the Holiday Inn was the row of cherry trees blooming on the bank opposite under the Metro platform. The cherry in my grandfather’s yard blossomed white. These were a dark pink, heading towards vermillion.
So, off [...]

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Here’s a view of the rebuilt lane on Pablo Kisel a few yards south of Drainage Ditch Number One where the street expands to four lanes. The repair continues to Morrison Road, a distance close to half a mile and included a considerable stretch of replaced curbing as well.

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I received a call from Liza Valdez (or Vega, the email uses both) of the City Secretary’s office today asking me to clarify my e-mail address so she could send me the material she had received from Public Works. I was astounded to hear it was a single memo, a Word document, which I [...]

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I’ve got to keep better track of these things, but it seems as though it’s been a month or so since I made a request for information about the repair costs and agreements on the construction of Pablo Kisel Boulevard.
But a call today to the City Secretary’s office found that, no, there was no report. [...]

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Let us review. I wrote to City Councilman Carlos Cisneros on February sixth concerning repairs to Pablo Kisel Boulevard which culminating in a response from the city engineer, Carlos Lastros, with some information about the project’s inception and who was involved. It wasn’t very informative, frankly. In response to a question about [...]

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I recommend Paul Krugman’s column today for some straight discussion of an often skewed topic, poverty.

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Calls to the City of Brownsville Public Works Department have not produced answers to the basic questions about the cost of repairs to Pablo Kisel Boulevard. When I called Monday afternoon, however, an unnamed woman told me that Mr. Santiago Navarro had “left a message for you,” she said. “He’s going to get with you [...]

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As noted last week, the Art of Brownsville is featuring weekly doses of collaborative art for a while. When I saw the notice last week, I sent in the artwork I’d used for the cover of a chapbook of poetry which had come, originally, from a pastel drawing which Cris Soto and Joseph Raines [...]

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