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WHILE PUB BOARD MEMBERS PLAY POLITICS, SNAIL-PACE WORK ON CITY PROJECT IRK RESIDENTS
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />While public works projects handled by Brownsville Public Utility Board contractors such as the mess at Sixth and Seventh streets near Jackson continue to delay traffic and cause headaches for local motorists, the majority on the board of the utility has ignored their performance and instead engage in political schems to retain their control<br />For the better part of four months, a local businessman has coped with detouring Sixth Street from Ringgold Street south to get to his company along Levee Street.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPIcamH5uW0_NuiRCx8jjeU3fu9PJtQ_ppUpmfQhnnOOodK8_ifBsR8X7-pl3lEUMmPuU-C_3nHYxCk0Y8iDPV6cNbVQCY9uXancm0qgaEMZ2bS1pAAwV3knfLpDOiyB39ocI7wtmNj2A/s1600/road.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPIcamH5uW0_NuiRCx8jjeU3fu9PJtQ_ppUpmfQhnnOOodK8_ifBsR8X7-pl3lEUMmPuU-C_3nHYxCk0Y8iDPV6cNbVQCY9uXancm0qgaEMZ2bS1pAAwV3knfLpDOiyB39ocI7wtmNj2A/s400/road.gif" width="400" /></a>Like his colleagues in his office, he has been patiently waiting for the contractors hired by the PUB to finally finish the utility work that has seen torn up streets and congestion causing severe traffic delays for people coming to and leaving their jobs downtown.<br />"Do we have any engineers watching these guys?," asked the incredulous business owner. "First one tears up the street, then another comes in and paves it only to have yet someone else tear it up again."<br />Don't ask former chairman Manny Vasquez. He has been too busy lately kowtowing to politicians and seeking their influence to tell you what's gong on. For that matter, don;t even ask outgoing chairman Arturo Farias, he's one of the members of the board that went along with Vasquez and Oscar Garcia to place their buddy David Morales in the hot chair.<br />Hinojosa, the vice chair, was scheduled to take the chairman's position and had counted on Vasquez to honor his commitment to the transition to that post. However, Vasquez's latest political maneuver that Vasquez has engineered is reneging on his promise to Raymond Hinojosa assuring him that he would follow him at the chairman's spot only to nominate Morales to fill the spot.<br />"It came as a surprise to Raymond when Vasquez nominated Morales to the chairman's spot when he had agreed to have Hinojosa take his turn," said a former board member. "Vasquez still continues to pay heed to the political masters who put him there.<br />One person who could have made a difference in the outcome was PUB ex-officio member Mayor Tony Martinez, but, as his been his wont, he has become the "Stealth Mayor," conveniently absent when his presence counted most.<br />"Tony is off on his own somewhere," said the former PUB official. "Apparently, he believes in governing by benign neglect."<br />Many questions have been asked on why Director of Water and Wastewater Engineering and Operations Genoveva Gomez has not exercised stronger control of the PUB-funded projects that have languished for months such as the Seventh and Sixth street improvements that have cause such headaches for city residents.<br />"Is anyone getting on these people to finish these projects?" asked the businessman. "I have seen projects in Matamoros get done faster and with worse equipment and fewer workers. Don't the board members live in town? hey should get rid of the politicians on the board and get some professionals in there."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-2149077754258215101?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2011/12/while-pub-board-members-play-politics.html
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CAMPIRANO AND BND BOARD GENEROUS WITH TAXPAYERS' MONEY
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">By Juan Montoya </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">This Christmas, like a few Christmas in the past few years, many local residents will have to tighten their belts and there will be fewer presents under their families' tree.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl1r3tuqEKTQQQbHRDRl3HovdiRUvOIOAQ8_MY3l3M96CoLJ84oDBc0CJSKS-SEcEV9WNDIzVfpeibgowA2yDFF7VF5aWQXfiWcKRK4Hi2drA-gY9lrOEs7MqCRb0X43MjVbjrdTboyjU/s1600/edc.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl1r3tuqEKTQQQbHRDRl3HovdiRUvOIOAQ8_MY3l3M96CoLJ84oDBc0CJSKS-SEcEV9WNDIzVfpeibgowA2yDFF7VF5aWQXfiWcKRK4Hi2drA-gY9lrOEs7MqCRb0X43MjVbjrdTboyjU/s320/edc.gif" width="320" /></a>But not at the Port of Brownsville. There, as in years past, Port of Brownsville employees â€" already some of the highest paid public servants in the area â€" will share in the spirit of Christmas compliments of the port administration and the board of the Brownsville Navigation District with a nice bonus and a gift card for their shopping pleasure.Last year, 92 port employees received the a $200 bonus and a $50 gift card. This year, if nothing changes, a similar giveaway will take place for the hardworking elves out at the Golden Ditch. An estimate of the actual cost of the giveaway at taxpayer expense was provided to El Rrun-Rrun by the port's administration and totalled some $24,497. The actual number, the administration warns, could be higher because of withholding of taxes on the actual amount.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Things haven't been going well in the local and national economy, but if the port's largess to its employees at taxpayer expense is any indication, the hard times facing local residents isn't any skin off its nose or the port's board of directors.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">Merry Christmas from Port Director Eddie Campirano, board members John Reed, Martin Arambula, Ralph Cowen, Tito Lopez, and Carlos Masso! </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-3944428370129044056?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2011/12/campirano-and-bnd-board-generous-with.html
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Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh’s Tomb
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<style>@font-face { font-family: "ï¼ï¼³ 明æœ";}@font-face { font-family: "ï¼ï¼³ 明æœ";}@font-face { font-family: "Cambria";}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria; }span.yshortcuts { }.MsoChpDefault { font-family: Cambria; }div.WordSection1 { page: WordSection1; }</style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-SFESYmtShU" width="560"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">By Raul Garcia Jr. / <span style="color: red;">Dec. 10, 2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.valleywoodblog.com/">www.valleywoodblog.com</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Special to El Rrun Rrun</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"> In 1922 on November 4<sup>th </sup><span class="yshortcuts">George Herbert, 5<sup>th</sup> Earl of Carnarvon</span> and Howard Carter unearthed the first intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Upper Egypt. The find was that of King Tutankhamun, the boy pharaoh. The two archaeologists almost quit their expedition after eighteen years of excavation but months before their dig was set to expire they found the riches and royal splendor in King Tut’s tomb. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84AiBKgFqiWShPNkk7oIKeaKeBErLroJd6dYoLxYbGn0rswRHTVFVpzoLVjsTmFMMd9sZWoaGI2sfQG0pkhPMkjMlFQk-_HW8bFPuASO8UQxTTZAnihXESrRSrGQU3sAF8rBhg_7tNiA/s1600/tut1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84AiBKgFqiWShPNkk7oIKeaKeBErLroJd6dYoLxYbGn0rswRHTVFVpzoLVjsTmFMMd9sZWoaGI2sfQG0pkhPMkjMlFQk-_HW8bFPuASO8UQxTTZAnihXESrRSrGQU3sAF8rBhg_7tNiA/s400/tut1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Today and only for a few more weeks a traveling exhibit of reproduced ancient artifacts of King Tut and his royal possessions are on display in Edinburg, TX.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"> The exhibits title is, “Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh’s Tomb.â€</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">People in the Rio Grande Valley only have until January 4<sup>th</sup> to rediscover the same marvelous treasure at the University of Texas Pan American’s UTPA Visitors Center. The university has been hosting the free exhibit of King Tut’s artifacts since Sep. 26 when the it first went on display. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The original artifacts are in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt and over thirty years had past since Tut and his things went on display in the United States in 2005 and 2007.<br /><br />King Tut was worshiped as a God and ruled Egypt during the 18th Dynasty (1333 BC â€" 1323 BC) for ten years from the age of nine to 19-years-old. The cause of his death in unknown. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7itKclzc4xAh-WPTqnGqBDiXE40QRiGn4cDIQ3gQkY7BDXcNQMWSinEwqBW8yvXhywQyyHZi5fJDNE-mLNfB-VAFFzu7yP7jgfPKkn3_1FNwZ86RS52FNV6WkaTBPoJp6LydIbwLcXRk/s1600/tut2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7itKclzc4xAh-WPTqnGqBDiXE40QRiGn4cDIQ3gQkY7BDXcNQMWSinEwqBW8yvXhywQyyHZi5fJDNE-mLNfB-VAFFzu7yP7jgfPKkn3_1FNwZ86RS52FNV6WkaTBPoJp6LydIbwLcXRk/s640/tut2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh's Tomb are recreations of the original finds. They are crafted in the same design and are a well representation of King Tut and the way he lived. In total the exhibit showcases 130 artifacts.<br /><br />Explore a rulers life and experience his marvelous treasure that was sought after for so many years in the Desert of the Tomb of the Valley of the Kings.<br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Exhibit Hours:<br />Monday-Friday 9 a.m. â€" 5 p.m., Saturday: 9 a.m. â€" 2 p.m., Sunday: closed<br /><br />WHERE: University of Texas-Pan American, 1201 W. University Drive, Edinburg.<br /><br />Request a Tour:<br />Large groups and school tours must submit a tour request form to schedule a group tour.<b style="font-weight: normal;"> 1 (866) 441 UTPA</b> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-6684561143579854090?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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