Saturday, April 16, 2011

In McAllen, A New Ballteam, No Stadium, Few Fans And A Barely Major Leaguer As Manager...

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By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ Editor-In-Chief McALLEN, Texas - It's been a long, long, long time since Choche Gonzalez toiled behind the p...
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

A Village's Life Impulse: Where Dreams Grow...They're Not Dreams Elsewhere...Just Another Desperate Move Here...

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By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ Editor-In-Chief BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Resident and aspiring politician Ezequiel "Zeke" Silva went for t...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

The Gentleman From San Juan: Harsh Words On Sunday...He's Fightin' Bob Garza...

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By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ Editor-In-Chief SAN JUAN, Texas - The bastion of regional religion is located here, a cathedral to Catholicism t...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Monday, Monday: A Day Of Love And Pain...Of Daughters And Boots...Of Friends And Enemies...

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By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ Editor-In-Chief KYLE, Texas - One of our favorite Tex-Mex cafes is open today. It wasn't yesterday. On Monda...
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Monday, April 11, 2011

For Mexico, Violence Is Nothing New...Part Of The Culture...Has Been for 100 Years...

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By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ Editor-In-Chief HARLINGEN, Texas - When I lived in Mexico City while writing for The Houston Post , one of my fa...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Vietnam Blues: Veterans Still Pained By War Experience...It Was A Dark, Bloody Time For America...Good Soldiering, Bad Soldiering...

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By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ Editor-In-Chief McALLEN, Texas - It is the one war America cannot forget, even though it really wasn't a war...
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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Dance Of The Doomed: How I Saved Harlingen From Itself...No News At Eleven...Pan Camera 3...

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By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ Editor-In-Chief HARLINGEN, Texas - Nothing much happened here yesterday. Nothing, really. Some people waltzed in...
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Friday, April 8, 2011

Minor League Baseball: In The Valley, It's Three Up & Three Down...Warning Track Flyballs...

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"No matter what, after it's all said and done, I'm the best field manager that ever put the WhiteWings uniform on..." - ...
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Thursday, April 7, 2011

La Pistola y El Corazon: In The Valley, It's Open Season On Love & Marriage...Guns, No Roses...

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By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ Editor-In-Chief RIO HONDO, Texas - They killed a young mother here last week and the news fell like a lead ballo...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Politics & Catholics: Why Things Change, But Don't Change In Poor, Little Brownsville...Life As A Bad Sermon...Abre, Maria...

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By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ Editor-In-Chief BROWNSVILLE, Texas - It's almost May and another long round of elections looms for this hagg...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

The Grand Plan: How The State Lottery Did & Didn't Save Texas Public Education...Big Money, Big Dream...Then Nothing...

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By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ Editor-In-Chief AUSTIN, Texas - When giddy state officials first announced plans for a Texas lottery, they crowe...
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Monday, April 4, 2011

The Quirky World of Athletics: Win Or Lose, Taxpayers Carry The Load...UT's Head Coaches Make $5.1 Million...

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By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ Editor-In-Chief AUSTIN, Texas - Mack Brown, the head football coach for the Texas Longhorns, is paid $2.5 millio...
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

In Brownsville, A Judge Admits Taking Bribes...He Follows A Long Line Of Lawbreakers In Office...Money For Nothing...

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By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ Editor-In-Chief BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Really, why is anyone surprised? Abel C. Limas, the former 404th District J...
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