People Who Mattered In 2010: Harlingen's Joe Rubio, A Private Investigator Who Investigated...

By PATRICK ALCATRAZ
Editor-In-Chief

HARLINGEN, Texas - He's the only one who's publicly gone after wrongdoing at City Hall, actually been the tireless gumshoe doing the legwork local bloggers and other ever-concerned residents didn't do. He's gone after Mayor Chris Boswell, after City Commissioner Kori Marra, after a slew of local bureaucracies falling short on service or accomplishment.

And he's taken on the city police department - his former employer - on a variety of cases he says were worked badly, or never worked. A presence at most local socio-political functions, he was even accused of raiding a botana at one such gathering, reportedly scarfing more than his share of free tamales. Nothing wrong with that when you're doing pro bono work for your community, says this observer.

For those reasons alone, The Tribune today names local Private Investigator Joe Rubio as one of its People Who Mattered in 2010...

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