Special to The Tribune
HARLINGEN, Texas - This past weekend, local cops arrested a man here for failing to cross a street at the crosswalk, or so said the police blotter at headquarters. Jaywalking took that man, someone by the name of Ramirez, to the city jail, where he awaited arraignment alongside a few others busted for public intoxication. It was unclear whether Ramirez simply strolled at mid-point of a city block, or whether his arrest had some other, perhaps ornery, element - like maybe bitching to the cops about the loud noise coming from city politics.
Intoxication in that world has gone malarious here. Viruses heretofore unknown in public service have reared their ugly heads. Name-calling rules. There are male liars and female fibbers from one end of town to the other. Reputations are being made and lost with every verbal uppercut. What's the Big Deal?
Well, of late...that's it right there: deal, as in Jerry Deal, operator of a website going by the name of MyLeaderNews.com. Suddenly, it is the primo defender of City Commissioner Kori Marra. And just as quickly, Deal has garnered both praise and scorn from supporters and opponents of the first-year commissioner whose style of late is to let others wage her battles. He does not apologize, noting on his Blog that he is responding to cruel and caustic commentary aimed at Ms. Marra over on MyHarlingenNews.com - the flag-waver for progress in this under-achieving community now on the lip of major political change. A former newsman employed by the local daily, The Valley Morning Star, Deal wonders why half the town is out to get Commissioner Marra, critics he says arrive with an ammo box full of armor-piercing bullets.
As they say in outdoor cooking, it's all bad chili for Harlingen.
At MyHarlingenNews.com, Editor Tony Chapa is unrelenting in his desire to expose Commissioner Marra. He is of the opinion that the commissioner is not good for this community. At present, the verbal jabs are pretty much even, some for Ms. Marra and some against. She, however, has largely been absent from the fray, shoveling one response to MyLeaderNews.com and ignoring Chapa's blog. In the context of the bigger world, this local four-round flyweight fight is of little consequence. Not a word of it has filtered out to neighboring communities.
News of the jaywalker's arrest, however, did get out...and no doubt it got a few laughs.
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6 comments:
Harlingen, is a town to be laughed about, it simply exist. There is nothing going on that city. I mean Nothing. As the younger generations say at times, it sucks.
Nothing ever happens, bunch of kkk people, who think they are better than others.
A police chief with a hight school degree, a downtown area, which is dead, few junkie looking stores, and mall half empty.
Folks, it sucks.
The word is, that it has been like that for over 16 years, a struggling city, barely styaing alive.
There are no jobs, looks helpless.
The Editor of the leadernews,is an old man, that hangs around the local baseball team. No one takes him serious, he is to old, and worked at the vms years back.
He was one of the biggest critic of city goverment during the Natalie Prim years. Suddendly, he is a big defender of city politics. Oh well, he is trying to revive his leader news, by catering to the supporters of the old keep the city stagnant guard.
I think he suffers from dementia.
KGBT is a joke, frankly, I am tired of Ryan Wolf and his restaurant reporting. He loves to embarrass people. And the zapping stuff, and trying to get people to make comments is just crazy.
I consider,Kgbt and the Valley Morning star, at the same level, tabloid media.
Don Pancho:...We don't think Jerry Deal suffers from dementia. He simply has strong feelings about some things, and that's okay, isn't it? Opinions are what they are. As for KGBT, TV (Action 4 News), well, those food patrols are laughable. That's not reporting. They take city health inspection reports and make them theirs. Minor league journalism, is what it is... - Editor
... Sop it Means that The Health Department are Just a Bunch of Lazy - Beer drinking and Fajitas Eaters Compadres, Ha, ha !!!
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