Wednesday, November 10, 2010

HAIL, MARY: The Total Ruination of A Once-Good Catholic Boy...Excerpt...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief McALLEN, Texas - She was one of those flighty girls who learned to play hard-to-get at an early age....
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Nibbling On Enchiladas: One Man's Travels Through The Heart Of A Lovely Land...The $2.99 Breakfast...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief PORT ISABEL, Texas - Away from here, much is made of the Rio Grande Valley's lifestyle. Often, i...
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Monday, November 8, 2010

When All The Laughter Turned To Sorrow...Family Doings...Morning At A Tex-Mex Cafe...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief McALLEN, Texas - Back when I was a young boy, when laughter filled my days, it was always the cookin...
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Sunday, November 7, 2010

The Mind Of The Mexican: How An American Bordertown Ignored A Bloody, Bloody War Next Door...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief BROWNSVILLE, Texas - The most popular myth about this town and its failure to progress has it that s...
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Saturday, November 6, 2010

You May Be A Gorgeous Dame, But that Skeleton Of Yours Turns Me Off...One Man's Battles With The Human Design...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief McALLEN, Texas - Is it just me, or do all of us have a fight with the human body's perplexing des...
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Friday, November 5, 2010

The Killing Tamales:...They're Tasty...But One Tamale Takes 30 Seconds Off Your Life Expectancy...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Eating is fun here along the Texas-Mexico border. You can find generous helping...
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Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Time of Times:...Comes A Day To Be Civil...Politics Is Only One Game We Play...Thank God For Year's End...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief McALLEN, Texas - And so we're near the end of another year. There, in ragged images still clear ...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Elections 2010:...So, Now What?...The Ground Moved, But It Always Moves In Our National Politics...Nobody Died...We Beat Onward...

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"Buy the ticket, take the ride..." - Hunter S. Thompson By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief McALLEN, Texas - American pol...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

The Blogger's Confession:...It's As We'd Imagined...Just Another Urchin...We're Not Interested, Lad...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief HARLINGEN, Texas - We're pretty loose here at The Tribune . Often, we allow some sort of questio...
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The Party of Exclusion: Teabaggers & The Craziest American Way...Kooks, Thugs and Crippled On Parade...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief HARLINGEN, Texas - When they arrived for their march on the nation's capital this past summer, m...
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Monday, November 1, 2010

Election 2010: A Year of Living Stupidly...Who Will Win & Who Will Lose?...Few Novel Ideas...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief McALLEN, Texas - As American voters march to the polls tomorrow, they will be casting votes for some...
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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Romancing McAllen: Making It & Selling It...Downtown's Gone Tri...Some Now Call It Little Monterrey...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief McALLEN, Texas - Downtown here has been All-Mexico, All-The-Time for years. Shops geared toward the...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

The Tribune Will Not Be Endorsing Any Area Candidate For Elected Office...Voters Ought To Educate Themselves...

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By RICARDO KLEMENT Staff Writer BROWNSVILE, Texas - After careful consideration, The Tribune has decided it will not endorse any area c...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

The Word of Reason:...Harlingen City Commissioner Robert Leftwich Addresses The Tony Chapa Mess...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief HARLINGEN, Texas - More and more, people here are saying it is now very much like the final note of ...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

THE LAST TRIAL: In McAllen, A Lawyer Who Fell From Grace With His Profession...Allen Odum Dead...

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[ EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was initially published last May. Allen Barry Odum, the subject of the story, died on Monday. His funeral ...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The Rise of Harlingen Birthers...They Want Answers...Is Tony Chapa A Mexican?...He's Not Talking...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief HARLINGEN, Texas - Is it even important? Does it matter if local Blogger Tony Chapa is not an America...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

DEATH OF A BLOG:...How Harlingen's Tony Chapa Lost His Groove...Empty Bus On A Darkened Road...Doing The Right Thing...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Shorts HARLINGEN, Texas - Who says, we are driven to wonder, this city of 74,000 fun-starved souls can...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Election Central:...Something's Up, But What?...Is This Really Election Week?...How Can You Tell?...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Bill Clinton is coming to town. It'll be a little Early Christmas for the 1...
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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Without Yanks, This Year's World Series Will Be Crap...Where's Dick Young?...Texas Rangers?...Boring...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief McALLEN, Texas - In the late-1980s, after he'd made something of a name for himself with the low...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

10 Hours On South Padre Island...Los Fresnos Is A Rural Hoot...We Love Port Isabel's Energy...

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By PATRICK ALCATRAZ Editor-In-Chief SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas - It is by any measure of the word "lost" the only rib of sand i...
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