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FEATHERS FLY IN THE GOP CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICAN RACE
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />The race for the Republican nomination for the newly-created Congressional District 34 is heating up.<br />There are three candidates for the position, Adela Garza, Jessica Puente Bradshaw and Paul B. Haring.<br />Haring, a one-issue candidate (anti-abortion) has run unsuccessfully at least three times for Congress (2004, 2006, and 2010). Bradhsaw ran for Congress in 2010 and fin<img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 264px; float: right; height: 501px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737233043897488034" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7WrBzyCNW_wUe8-NQV-DqrCVqHz_hXC4twt7FwkFEr0_1PclL4D4oRteJ0qkYBqlSBCFSHwCn2ZtlSfmqYezL1JTsQMmrLCt8afNoJ8hELs6q0xGDQVzBZjfEe2XnlwmflkSpOkPrv9I/s400/adela.png" border="0" />ished fourth in the pack.<br />Some of our readers travelled to Austin recently and brought us back a copy of the Beeville newspaper where and ad for Garza ran pointedly urging conservatives to vote for someone "you can trust/a Republican who can win."<br />The ad then went on to say that Garza, 50, a resident of Cameron County (36 years) and who owns a small business, an independent pharmacy, has been a longtime civic and community leader unlike Bradshaw, who has held no elective office and serves on no public boards. The ad points out that Haring served as a <em>Democratic</em> state representative from 1961-1967.<br />She lists herself as a first-time candidate for Congress and formerly served as a board member with the Los Fresnos Independent School District and is currently on the Texas Southmost Community College board of trustees.<br />Adela is currently a field representative for Congressman Blake Farenthold. Bradshaw, the ad points out, is 37 years old and lists her residence on her registration card as Austin, Texas, but "now claims to reside in Cameron County."<br />But it is in the following comparisons that the contrasts between Garza and Bradshaw become marked. Garza, saying she is a Pro-life Catholic, asks whether her opponent is "Mormon? Catholic?"<br />Garza sates that while she has shown that she can raise money for campaigning against the Democrats and has raised $70,000 as of April, Bradshaw has "failed to file campaign finance reports on time in 2010 and 2012 and failed to pay debt from prior campaign.<br />"In a late filed campaign disclosure form, reported that she had raised $1,480 in donations and given herself a $8,500 loan."<br />It is apparent that Garza's team has done their research on their opponents. for example, while Bradshaw states in her campaign literature that she sells real estate the ad states that records show her license to do so expired in 2010 and has not appeared since on state records. As far as her community involvement, Bradshaw lists only being a den mother for Cub Scout Pack 192 in Austin.<br />With 30 days left before the primaries of both parties, we're sure that the claims by all the candidates in the races will be closely scrutinized. If Adela's ad is any idication of what's coming, Bradshaw might well review all the claims she's made in her literature lest she be surprised with more revelations.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-4730005960314798173?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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<div><br /><div><br /><div>By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong></div><br /><div>We've got to admit that the Advertising 101 class we took when we were in college was not really our cup of tea.</div><br /><div>Imbued as we were with the notion that anyone of us could be the next Woodward or Bernstein, we barely eked out a "B" in the course. Other, more practical students, did embrace the advertising concepts with a flair. Over the years the concepts have been refined and we're sure that what passed for advertising appeals in the 70s and 80s are now passe.</div><br /><div>Now, we've all heard of no-name candidates and dark horses. But have you ever heard of a no-face candidate? What would the strategy be there, we wonder?</div><br /><div>Could it be that the candidate is so well known that you really don't need to show his face? Or that the name has been around so long that even the dead would rise from their graves, upturn their tombstones, and vote for him?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6fliNUdf_gV2dcABi3KZzkkkctwVmdoVdF3Jb8hTs8r5jNis7nTtelywgzWZO6sIzdP6-VCcvF3YhO96bFR6oUxkcJ-Rcjz53iOBZeyzjs683mAlag3GLAMrNOV-a5zlt4YvF3ic-hk/s1600/shadowrene.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 287px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 195px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737230862373527666" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6fliNUdf_gV2dcABi3KZzkkkctwVmdoVdF3Jb8hTs8r5jNis7nTtelywgzWZO6sIzdP6-VCcvF3YhO96bFR6oUxkcJ-Rcjz53iOBZeyzjs683mAlag3GLAMrNOV-a5zlt4YvF3ic-hk/s400/shadowrene.jpg" /></a><br />These thoughts come to mind as we cruise around town at our daily chores and see the campaign signs or sit in our living room reading the Sunday paper which is favored by candidates to run their costly ads.</div><br /><div>The Sunday <em>Brownsville Herald</em> ad for State Rep. Rene <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Oliveira</span> caught our eye this Sunday. Take gander at it. We've heard of ghost workers and phantom workers, but a ghost candidate?</div><br /><div>The insertion of a blank spot where Rene's face should have been left us wondering whether a brand new strategy was being implemented in his candidacy. </div><br /><div>At the northeast corner of the Cameron County parking lot on Harrison Street, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiXLnrlhI8BiuR5xoizyR3n-ujgDGkKmBYQ-FAXb9UFsRF1BDLpCAc6vJWMQ2kqEf_eS7hCUmaWAk3g1czQtEX4ieVMEzVMfy7cg2v_TLyjHkFfJVFLtw-uxFQFNoWs6e03Ed4vnRYheg/s1600/shadowrene2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737231463829843074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiXLnrlhI8BiuR5xoizyR3n-ujgDGkKmBYQ-FAXb9UFsRF1BDLpCAc6vJWMQ2kqEf_eS7hCUmaWAk3g1czQtEX4ieVMEzVMfy7cg2v_TLyjHkFfJVFLtw-uxFQFNoWs6e03Ed4vnRYheg/s320/shadowrene2.jpg" /></a>ere is also an <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Oliveria</span> sign. This one, also, has a square cut into where his face would have been. Is this a pattern, or merely circumstance?</div><br /><div>Then, at the corner of Frontage and 7<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span> Street, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Oliveira's</span> sign is the only one gracing the chain link fence of Pinkerton Memorials, the tombstone manufacturer in Brownsville. Subliminal suggestion?</div><br /><div>As we said, we were terrible in advertising, but we understand that Rene's account if being handled locally by Melissa Zamora's Elite Promotions. Maybe it's a new twist that we don't understand.<img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 600px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 323px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737230546816245938" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3bI1f9VriCTFQszYndxx5urp2IadbCOmOHMu1u8539gAdb3LApg40bMzEA27vwx7d_YHdtmkgva9KkgV9OZezm65r7dbMoJTJFOKG7lDTvpulJ-Su6Y9hS61QUvd5VB-PcY35lq0rhBc/s400/shadowrene1.jpg" /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-175863745940569807?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />The race for the Republican nomination for the newly-created Congressional District 34 is heating up.<br />There are three candidates for the position, Adela Garza, Jessica Puente Bradshaw and Paul B. Haring.<br />Haring, a one-issue candidate (anti-abortion) has run unsuccessfully at least three times for Congress (2004, 2006, and 2010). Bradhsaw ran for Congress in 2010 and fin<img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 264px; float: right; height: 501px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737233043897488034" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7WrBzyCNW_wUe8-NQV-DqrCVqHz_hXC4twt7FwkFEr0_1PclL4D4oRteJ0qkYBqlSBCFSHwCn2ZtlSfmqYezL1JTsQMmrLCt8afNoJ8hELs6q0xGDQVzBZjfEe2XnlwmflkSpOkPrv9I/s400/adela.png" border="0" />ished fourth in the pack.<br />Some of our readers travelled to Austin recently and brought us back a copy of the Beeville newspaper where and ad for Garza ran pointedly urging conservatives to vote for someone "you can trust/a Republican who can win."<br />The ad then went on to say that Garza, 50, a resident of Cameron County (36 years) and who owns a small business, an independent pharmacy, has been a longtime civic and community leader unlike Bradshaw, who has held no elective office and serves on no public boards. The ad points out that Haring served as a <em>Democratic</em> state representative from 1961-1967.<br />She lists herself as a first-time candidate for Congress and formerly served as a board member with the Los Fresnos Independent School District and is currently on the Texas Southmost Community College board of trustees.<br />Adela is currently a field representative for Congressman Blake Farenthold. Bradshaw, the ad points out, is 37 years old and lists her residence on her registration card as Austin, Texas, but "now claims to reside in Cameron County."<br />But it is in the following comparisons that the contrasts between Garza and Bradshaw become marked. Garza, saying she is a Pro-life Catholic, asks whether her opponent is "Mormon? Catholic?"<br />Garza sates that while she has shown that she can raise money for campaigning against the Democrats and has raised $70,000 as of April, Bradshaw has "failed to file campaign finance reports on time in 2010 and 2012 and failed to pay debt from prior campaign.<br />"In a late filed campaign disclosure form, reported that she had raised $1,480 in donations and given herself a $8,500 loan."<br />It is apparent that Garza's team has done their research on their opponents. for example, while Bradshaw states in her campaign literature that she sells real estate the ad states that records show her license to do so expired in 2010 and has not appeared since on state records. As far as her community involvement, Bradshaw lists only being a den mother for Cub Scout Pack 192 in Austin.<br />With 30 days left before the primaries of both parties, we're sure that the claims by all the candidates in the races will be closely scrutinized. If Adela's ad is any idication of what's coming, Bradshaw might well review all the claims she's made in her literature lest she be surprised with more revelations.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-4730005960314798173?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/04/feathers-fly-in-gop-congressional.html
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<div><br /><div><br /><div>By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong></div><br /><div>We've got to admit that the Advertising 101 class we took when we were in college was not really our cup of tea.</div><br /><div>Imbued as we were with the notion that anyone of us could be the next Woodward or Bernstein, we barely eked out a "B" in the course. Other, more practical students, did embrace the advertising concepts with a flair. Over the years the concepts have been refined and we're sure that what passed for advertising appeals in the 70s and 80s are now passe.</div><br /><div>Now, we've all heard of no-name candidates and dark horses. But have you ever heard of a no-face candidate? What would the strategy be there, we wonder?</div><br /><div>Could it be that the candidate is so well known that you really don't need to show his face? Or that the name has been around so long that even the dead would rise from their graves, upturn their tombstones, and vote for him?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6fliNUdf_gV2dcABi3KZzkkkctwVmdoVdF3Jb8hTs8r5jNis7nTtelywgzWZO6sIzdP6-VCcvF3YhO96bFR6oUxkcJ-Rcjz53iOBZeyzjs683mAlag3GLAMrNOV-a5zlt4YvF3ic-hk/s1600/shadowrene.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 287px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 195px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737230862373527666" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6fliNUdf_gV2dcABi3KZzkkkctwVmdoVdF3Jb8hTs8r5jNis7nTtelywgzWZO6sIzdP6-VCcvF3YhO96bFR6oUxkcJ-Rcjz53iOBZeyzjs683mAlag3GLAMrNOV-a5zlt4YvF3ic-hk/s400/shadowrene.jpg" /></a><br />These thoughts come to mind as we cruise around town at our daily chores and see the campaign signs or sit in our living room reading the Sunday paper which is favored by candidates to run their costly ads.</div><br /><div>The Sunday <em>Brownsville Herald</em> ad for State Rep. Rene <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Oliveira</span> caught our eye this Sunday. Take gander at it. We've heard of ghost workers and phantom workers, but a ghost candidate?</div><br /><div>The insertion of a blank spot where Rene's face should have been left us wondering whether a brand new strategy was being implemented in his candidacy. </div><br /><div>At the northeast corner of the Cameron County parking lot on Harrison Street, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiXLnrlhI8BiuR5xoizyR3n-ujgDGkKmBYQ-FAXb9UFsRF1BDLpCAc6vJWMQ2kqEf_eS7hCUmaWAk3g1czQtEX4ieVMEzVMfy7cg2v_TLyjHkFfJVFLtw-uxFQFNoWs6e03Ed4vnRYheg/s1600/shadowrene2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737231463829843074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiXLnrlhI8BiuR5xoizyR3n-ujgDGkKmBYQ-FAXb9UFsRF1BDLpCAc6vJWMQ2kqEf_eS7hCUmaWAk3g1czQtEX4ieVMEzVMfy7cg2v_TLyjHkFfJVFLtw-uxFQFNoWs6e03Ed4vnRYheg/s320/shadowrene2.jpg" /></a>ere is also an <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Oliveria</span> sign. This one, also, has a square cut into where his face would have been. Is this a pattern, or merely circumstance?</div><br /><div>Then, at the corner of Frontage and 7<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span> Street, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Oliveira's</span> sign is the only one gracing the chain link fence of Pinkerton Memorials, the tombstone manufacturer in Brownsville. Subliminal suggestion?</div><br /><div>As we said, we were terrible in advertising, but we understand that Rene's account if being handled locally by Melissa Zamora's Elite Promotions. Maybe it's a new twist that we don't understand.<img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 600px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 323px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5737230546816245938" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3bI1f9VriCTFQszYndxx5urp2IadbCOmOHMu1u8539gAdb3LApg40bMzEA27vwx7d_YHdtmkgva9KkgV9OZezm65r7dbMoJTJFOKG7lDTvpulJ-Su6Y9hS61QUvd5VB-PcY35lq0rhBc/s400/shadowrene1.jpg" /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-175863745940569807?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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WILL SPACE X BROWNSVILLE SITE POSE A HAZARD TO FLORIDA?
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj_9MFYEFRabCDf0imORwoJ7xgm2XznPbSd1u38yKJ3VV4LH4XJnJXaJs_WGmZn5dyCFw3ynz_QP-5HhDbBC4lMKLbiSp8kVHzy4mC5rf6GqZojbVKEwtVZCXexikFHlTIsFkAkLAW7Zk/s1600/xlaunch.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj_9MFYEFRabCDf0imORwoJ7xgm2XznPbSd1u38yKJ3VV4LH4XJnJXaJs_WGmZn5dyCFw3ynz_QP-5HhDbBC4lMKLbiSp8kVHzy4mC5rf6GqZojbVKEwtVZCXexikFHlTIsFkAkLAW7Zk/s400/xlaunch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736549704982318210" border="0" /></a><a href="http://space.brevardtimes.com/2012/04/is-texas-space-x-launch-site-dangerous.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">BrevardTimes.com</span></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- The Federal Aviation Administration issued a notice on April 10, 2012 that Space X proposes to construct a vertical launch area and a control center area to support up to 12 commercial launches per year near Brownsville, Texas.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">The geography is strikingly similar to that of Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach, Florida with barrier islands attached to the mainland with a port inlet. The proposed site is also next to the Los Palomas Wildlife Management Area and Boca Chica State Park similar to the uninhabited Merritt Island National Refuge. But there is one major difference between launches from the proposed Texas site and that of launches from Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - a clear shot to the open Atlantic Ocean.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">According to the FAA notice, all launch trajectories would be to the east over the Gulf of Mexico. Although the notice does not give an exact trajectory, a launch due east from the Texas site would place a payload over heavily populated South Florida metro areas of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach within minutes after launch (yellow line on map above).</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">Now to be clear, the possibility of a payload crashing down on Florida is extremely remote because the launch failure would have to occur within a window measured in milliseconds at the altitude necessary for a payload to reach Florida. But ever since the creation of NASA, space flight is shaped more often by politics rather than practicality (which is why NASA has centers spread across the U.S. to curry favor for funding from politicians). Most people would rather have a 0 percent chance of having a satellite crash on them than a .00000000000001 chance. The irony of the Texas site is that the Space Coast of Florida would actually lie in a potential launch debris field.</span></div> <div style="font-family: lucida grande; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;"> <span style=" ;font-size:100%;" >Safety issues will be addressed by the FAA, along with environmental studies and other factors for consideration. The <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/04/10/2012-8556/office-of-commercial-space-transportation-notice-of-intent-to-prepare-an-environmental-impact#p-12">full FAA notice</a> also solicits comments from the public.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-3270808408224354170?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/04/will-space-x-brownsville-site-pose.html
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MULE DEER FOUNDATION STARTING NEW CAMERON COUNTY CHAPTER
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCtFZxGDF_uE1SzyJFJh7-Cp2t43i8FslGiw0gMmMpp83RaWZCTv9t2suMkgLM8EJRR2ilgwXgCOcWdPIv-suMQO-aC96Fn9sXFKQesNsvxfOm-1DfaO7cPBqr9cYNqCVFNz7R6u9B9kg/s1600/mdeer.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCtFZxGDF_uE1SzyJFJh7-Cp2t43i8FslGiw0gMmMpp83RaWZCTv9t2suMkgLM8EJRR2ilgwXgCOcWdPIv-suMQO-aC96Fn9sXFKQesNsvxfOm-1DfaO7cPBqr9cYNqCVFNz7R6u9B9kg/s400/mdeer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736546913133908530" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.lsonews.com/hunting-news/2138-edited-for-web-by-conor-harrison"><span style="font-style: italic;">Lone Star Outdoor News</span></a><br /><br />The Mule Deer Foundation is looking for members for a new chapter in South Texas.<br /><br />The Mule Deer Foundation, a 25-year-old grassroots conservation organization, is starting a local chapter in the Cameron County area. An organizational meeting will be held Wed., May 16, 2012, at the Loma Alta Skeet and Trap Range, 500 Old Port Isabel Rd., Brownsville, Texas. The meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. All interested individuals are encouraged to attend and bring along a friend.<br /><br />The Mule Deer Foundation is nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of mule deer, black-tailed deer and their habitat. Unlike other big game animals, mule deer have not adapted well to changes in their environment. As urban areas continue to sprawl, and more people build homes in rural settings, mule deer and their habitat suffer. Throw in a few major interstate highways and an occasional Texas drought, and it is a recipe for disaster. But we can help change the future for mule deer.<br /><br />Nearly 115 local MDF chapters are located throughout the central and western United States. Chapter members help raise money for conservation, initiate programs that benefit wildlife and offer educational and outdoor opportunities to all.<br /><br />Your support helps fund:<br /><br />• Habitat Enhancement Projects<br />• Land and Easements Acquisitions<br />• Scientific Research<br />• Support of Responsible Wildlife Management<br />• Conservation Education<br />• Support for our Hunting Heritage<br />• Youth Programs and More!<br /><br />For more information about the MDF or about this meeting, contact<br />Charles S. Stockstill at (817) 565-7121 or charlie@muledeer.org"> charlie@muledeer.org. http://www.lsonews.com/hunting-news/2138-edited-for-web-by-conor-harrison<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-134421384889424741?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/04/mule-deer-foundation-starting-new.html
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KIDS DRESS TO THE NINES FOR BEGUM FUNDRAISER
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDN1u8bqoJd2pOIjuEvLYbPT5TqdFmRqleIfP4R4XfETrd8u5PNBth1baxDMv5kNNw7JpHsfdotIGbcT3PrmEOWa3stBb_VXfIv8KRZS41cC4tg2OJpF6t2457I87gLDHDQyPUWG2rtM8/s1600/yoli.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 417px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 535px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736525918252814034" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDN1u8bqoJd2pOIjuEvLYbPT5TqdFmRqleIfP4R4XfETrd8u5PNBth1baxDMv5kNNw7JpHsfdotIGbcT3PrmEOWa3stBb_VXfIv8KRZS41cC4tg2OJpF6t2457I87gLDHDQyPUWG2rtM8/s400/yoli.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div></div><div>Please make a note: The Yolanda Begum Children's Fashion and Talent Show slated for April 15 has been moved to Sunday April 29th. This will take place at the same location, the Valley International Country Club at 2:00 pm. Check out the post above and make your plans to attend. We hope to see you there for a fun afternoon. Please sign up on the Yolanda Begum Children's Fashion and Talent Show Event Page on Facebook.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-4755220300777546347?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/04/kods-put-on-nines-for-brgum-fundraiser.html
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FEDS MOVE TO SEIZE PROPERTIES IN HARLINGEN, BROWNSVILLE, SPI
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<div>The San Antonio Express-News reported today that the federal government is moving to sieze commercial and residential properties in San Antobio and in the Rio Grande Valley they allege were purchased with money embezzled from the government of Coahuila, according to court documents cited by the newspaper.</div><br /><div>The daily reported that the laundering of state funds was orchestrated by Hector Javier Villarreal, 41, the former Coahuila state treasurer, who is wanted on money laundering and <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBmWvonSdFKDORXbPS9JblUNZtnYG4AlOFh-_FnkLNzntqor7WuzFendJiKyT6oTJAcidofoslgnqmdshjQiPrSBas6T-fchzQ0IfEmwAoNDfL1lBaBju2I77z7nKs7YAr88xqm09VXz0/s1600/villarreal.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 214px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 198px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736517425380731154" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBmWvonSdFKDORXbPS9JblUNZtnYG4AlOFh-_FnkLNzntqor7WuzFendJiKyT6oTJAcidofoslgnqmdshjQiPrSBas6T-fchzQ0IfEmwAoNDfL1lBaBju2I77z7nKs7YAr88xqm09VXz0/s320/villarreal.jpg" /></a>engaging in organized criminal activity charges in Bexar County, and quoted a spokesman for the Texas attorney general's office.<br />Villarreal, who's at large, is also wanted in Mexico, where authorities say he falsified documents to borrow $222 million on the state's credit, then shuffled the money to family in the United States.</div><br /><div>They're going after a condo unit on South Padre Island and a carwash in Harlingen. </div><br /><div><em>In Brownsville, they're trying to seize a house and several commercial properties, including an unfinished apartment complex, a gas station and another carwash at the corner of Boca Chica Boulevard and Padre Highway, a busy intersection home to a number of chain restaurants and stores</em>.<br />Villarreal, a former computer equipment salesman who went into government service in 2008, was arrested in Mexico in October 2011 and was freed after posting bail of 10 million pesos, about $769,000. Shortly afterward, he came to the U.S.</div><br /><div>Read more: <a style="COLOR: #003399" href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/DA-feds-in-SA-file-claim-to-6-5-million-and-a-3516621.php#ixzz1tMO7RjIW">http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/DA-feds-in-SA-file-claim-to-6-5-million-and-a-3516621.php#ixzz1tMO7RjIW</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-8105914916863992985?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/04/feds-move-to-seize-properties-in.html
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AT THE PORT: DUBIOUS NUMBERS, DUBIOUS CLAIMS FROM EDDIE AND THE SUNSHINE BOYS
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />If we are to believe the statements attributed to Port of Brownsville executive director Eddie Campirano and his PR man Manny Ortiz, the Navigation District has caught fire and we have now reached a decade high import of cargo volumes under their able watch.<br />"The Port of Brownsville enjoyed its best year in terms of cargo volume moving through the port," the <em>Brownsville Herald</em> reported in a front-page lead story Thursday. He went on to tell the Herald's reporter who dutifully regurgitated the info to us gullible readers, that the port "moved more than 6.1 million metric tons in 2011 â€" a 16 percent increase over 2010."In fact, Campirano waxed a few paragraphs further in the article, "Brownsville is one of the top three U.S. steel ports only behind Houston and New Orleans."<br />Heady stuff, isn't it?<br />But something didn't sound quite right to some longtime port observers.<br />Since 2008, the port has been trying to regain ground against a worldwide recession that saw steel cargoes â€" and other related imports â€" plunge to all-time lows. In fact, 2008 is seen as the banner year for ports along the Gulf Coast.<br />The Port of Brownsville, for example, reported to the Texas Port Authority that in that year, 6,300,000 metric tons of cargo moved through its wharves and docks. Now, we're feeble minded with numbers sometimes, but it does seem that the 6.3 million metric tons reported in 2008 when compared with the 6.1 million metric tons for 211 still has us lagging behind the cargoes moving though the Golden Ditch a scant three years ago, never mind, a whole decade. In fact, the port's audit for 2010 by Long & Chilton reported that "revenues from vessel services related to cargo traffic were...down 17 percent."<br />A 16 percent increase in cargoes in 2011 would mean we're still not quite up to 2008 levels. wouldn't it?<br />But don't take our word for it, check it out yourself.<br />On Page A-4, the numbers reported by the Authority, and provided by the Port of Brownsville clearly shows this.<br /><a href="ftp://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/library/reports/gov/tpp/tpa_report10.pdf">ftp://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/library/reports/gov/tpp/tpa_report10.pdf</a><br />Campirano is one of 7 members of the The Texas Port Authority Advisory Committee<br />appointed by the Texas Transportation Commission. The purpose of the committee is to provide a forum for the exchange of information between the commission, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and committee members representing the port industry in Texas and others who have an interest in ports.<br />So, if anybody should know that the claims made in the newspaper w<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiitQhz9A4fe9QIQhyUDeKG3qJuLx3klSSVfsWZHrJdYh2NwNG4i5ETwMBZiZRdBWg_RY8C9ugRn-mBtffxjGlcOiQ0RfyVi7FIJvHQn-WfpfvfI-4KOjEQh876cDh1VAe2bzkoimJzas/s1600/port.png"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736504759319661538" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiitQhz9A4fe9QIQhyUDeKG3qJuLx3klSSVfsWZHrJdYh2NwNG4i5ETwMBZiZRdBWg_RY8C9ugRn-mBtffxjGlcOiQ0RfyVi7FIJvHQn-WfpfvfI-4KOjEQh876cDh1VAe2bzkoimJzas/s400/port.png" /></a>ere dubious at best, it would have to be Eddie.<br />We asked about the apparent inconsistency and got back a colorful graph in return that seemingly supported the port's claims. But there was nary a word about the numbers provided by Campirano and the port administration to the Texas Port Authority that would seem to challenge their credibility with the current claims. In the interest of fairness, we<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC7d92y9ux3pbkbq6SuVElKx-s0eQJ4014LKYQKMYJXS-cM9AzNRk3Cjy7VxOwAJMNm1YUq8FskNdfsgCmYtYTKgZPUQXs8G96datZjd0Ilpd33BrYjaEPVo7aTTKX3NKYN5vk1Ux8Ly8/s1600/port.png"></a> print that graph (it's mighty pretty, Manny) here.<br /><br />OK. So what gives?<br />Did the port lie to the Texas Port Authority, or is the administration lying to us?<br />Not content to fudge the cargo numbers, Eddie went on to compare Brownsville to (gasp) the ports of New Orleans and Houston.<br />Now, if we in 2011 handled 6.1 million metric tons in 2011, let's see how we stack up against New Orleans.<br />According to its website, the "Port of New Orleans handles about 62 million short tons of cargo a year. The port also handles about 50,000 barges and 700,000 cruise passengers per year with several ships from Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian cruise lines making it one of the nation's premier cruise ports."<br />So let's be merciful and just skip the comparison with the Port of Houston, shall we?<br />Then we hear Eddie repeat the growing chant that manufacturers have grown disillusioned with China and are now returning to the Western Hemisphere to set up shop. The examples are at best inconsequential. There's an auto plant here, an electronics maquila there. But if we are to believe the cheerleaders at the port, "Mexico is the new China," and Brownsville is poised to pluck the benefits of this new trend.<br />Somebody better tell the Mexican Maquila Association and its chambers of commerce that they are enjoying the winter of discontent with China by worldwide manufacturers. Except for a few anecdotal examples, this just ain't so. Delphi moved out of Mexico this past year to build huge plants in rural China, as did a host of other manufacturers from the U.S. and other countries and continue to do so. That's not going to change in the foreseeable future, Eddie's wishes notwithstanding. But we can dream, though, can't we?<br />Oh, there's more.<br />"I heard a term the other day" Campirano expounded against a backdrop of former port commissioners in the port board 's meeting room: "'We are now the Saudi Arabia of natural gas.'"<br />Now, we have nothing against thinking big when it comes to the future of our port. In fact, we're all for it to progress out of its Middle Age thinking that left us effectively out of the containerized cargo market for decades as past port board members with interest in commercial fishing struggled to save their shrimping investments and kept us in the backwaters of world commerce.<br />Let's just say that after some lean years (three, to be exact), the port is finally getting back to its 2008 levels of cargo and that we hope we sustain this trend. We have four years to make this up. What Campirano and Ortiz are really saying is that the movement of cargo through the port is directly affected by the global economy and that â€" being situated on the border with emerging economies like Mexico and Latin America â€" our economic fortunes are directly tied to the vagaries of those economic dynamics.<br />It doesn't matter that Campirano â€" at $175,000 â€" goes to China and spends $1,800 on a single meal in Shanghai with two other commissioner one day, then comes back the next day and spends another $1,600 on another single meal â€" this time with the two commissioner and Brownsville Economic Development Corporations guru Jason Hilts as a guest.<br />That and other junkets under the guise of seeking business by the marketing directors, commissioners and their flunkies to all points of the world really didn't help to spur this increase of cargoes at the port. The upswing in the in the Mexican economy â€" tied as it is to the recovering global economy â€" did.<br />With any luck, 2012 will be the year that the port finally come out of its economic doldrums and â€" regardless who's at the helm â€" might become the economic engine it has the potential of becoming to provide opportunity to local communities and give people work.<br />For the meantime, take it easy on the superlatives and just get the job done, please.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-8137844771091428190?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/04/by-juan-montoya-if-we-are-to-believe.html
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JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, OR WAS IT FORGOT?
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"<em>When I hold you in my arms</em><br /><br /><div><em>And I feel my finger on your trigger</em></div><br /><div><em>I know nobody can do me no harm because..."</em></div><br /><div>Happiness is a Warm Gun</div><br /><div style="font-style: italic;">Lennon-McCartney</div><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong></div><br /><div>If you have attended the many pachangas and fundraisers this primary season, you have probably stood around the keg in the corner trading political rumors and in<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzA-28je7Iln8nvPWei8c9aNQvcwKuV9DNSNIcv1eCKJ_XDnlvs0X-NSWOXM8ZDfStxABr150LluC1_RyOsqq3P0a6yIRDlaOlxqvZpr7WZKfm_jUQtUvHoFJQ_2PsHbAzoFrtjDlR6Cc/s1600/gun.png"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 256px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736493233891701074" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzA-28je7Iln8nvPWei8c9aNQvcwKuV9DNSNIcv1eCKJ_XDnlvs0X-NSWOXM8ZDfStxABr150LluC1_RyOsqq3P0a6yIRDlaOlxqvZpr7WZKfm_jUQtUvHoFJQ_2PsHbAzoFrtjDlR6Cc/s320/gun.png" border="0" /></a>side scuttlebutt with the boys (and girls).</div><br /><div>The saying that you shout believe only half of what you see and nothing of what you hear might well apply to the level of discourse around the barrel of mirth. </div><br /><div>"Did you hear so-and-so was messing around with so-and-so's wife (secretary, ex-wife, girlfriend, fill in the appropriate culprit in the blank)?</div><br /><div>Or, "Did you hear who's going to get indicted?", a popular phrase in the post-Limas era that stops the Styrofoam cup in mid air as people strain to hear over the hubbub of conversation and norteño music blaring from the electrified conjunto nearby.</div><br /><div>Law enforcement candidates are by far the notorious at spreading gossip. </div><br /><div>There are rumors aplenty that some of the law-enforcement candidates had their homework done by others to pass their certification, that the sheriff often gets lost in the back county roads because he forgets where he's at, that a candidate for sheriff has had women troubles before and that reports exist, that a candidate whose campaign photo has him wearing a gun when he's not supposed to because he's not currently a peace officer, etc.</div><br /><div>But a recent fundraiser for an elected official, the teller of the following rumor got the award for best topic hands down.</div><br /><div>"Did you hear of the candidate for constable who lost his gun and couldn't find it for a whole three weeks?", he asked casually as he pumped on the keg valve to increase the flow.</div><br /><div>The conversation came to a halt at this delicious tidbit.</div><br /><div>Now, there is nothing more circumspect than a Cameron County political gossip. They tell you just enough for you to try to guess who they're talking about.</div><br /><div>For example, there are at two candidates for Constable Pct. 1. They are Horacio Zamora and Pedro Antonio “Pete†Collazo.<br />For Constable Pct. 2 you have Juan Torres, Roel Arreola, Pedro “Pete†Avila Jr. and Abelardo “Abel†Gomez Jr. Likewise, for Constable Pct. 3, Joe Cavazos and Frank Robles Jr. are vying for the position. In the race for Constable Pct. 4, Benito “Benny†Errisuriz, Juan Muñoz and Merced Burnias Jr. are in the running. and out in the boondocks, in the race for Constable Pct. 5, Reynaldo Gonzalez Sr., Joe Frias, Cesar Rene Diaz and Angela Ramirez-Gonzalez are the candidates. </div><br /><div>They are all democrats and no Republican opponents will await the eventual winners of the May 29 primary in the November general election.</div><br /><div>With all these potential targets, you would almost have to flip a coin to determine who they are talking about. </div><br /><div>"This person also worked for a while as an investigator with the DA," the gossip hinted, throwing a piece of raw meat at the frenzy of piranhas around the keg.</div><br /><div>Now, it would be even harder to guess even with that clue because some constables â€" at one time or another â€" have performed work in their jurisdictions for the county DA or the Cameron County Sheriff. What could be more convenient than having a resource who knows his jurisdiction better than most?</div><br /><div>Having gotten to bite and left us salivating at the tidbit, the the gossip made his way to the conjunto but not before he hurled his last hook.</div><br /><div>"He already recovered his gun, but we don't know whether he replaced it with another or if it's the same one," he smiled as he turned his back on the group and walked away. </div><br /><div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7332541975974400896?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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WILL SPACE X BROWNSVILLE SITE POSE A HAZARD TO FLORIDA?
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj_9MFYEFRabCDf0imORwoJ7xgm2XznPbSd1u38yKJ3VV4LH4XJnJXaJs_WGmZn5dyCFw3ynz_QP-5HhDbBC4lMKLbiSp8kVHzy4mC5rf6GqZojbVKEwtVZCXexikFHlTIsFkAkLAW7Zk/s1600/xlaunch.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 353px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj_9MFYEFRabCDf0imORwoJ7xgm2XznPbSd1u38yKJ3VV4LH4XJnJXaJs_WGmZn5dyCFw3ynz_QP-5HhDbBC4lMKLbiSp8kVHzy4mC5rf6GqZojbVKEwtVZCXexikFHlTIsFkAkLAW7Zk/s400/xlaunch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736549704982318210" border="0" /></a><a href="http://space.brevardtimes.com/2012/04/is-texas-space-x-launch-site-dangerous.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">BrevardTimes.com</span></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- The Federal Aviation Administration issued a notice on April 10, 2012 that Space X proposes to construct a vertical launch area and a control center area to support up to 12 commercial launches per year near Brownsville, Texas.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">The geography is strikingly similar to that of Cape Canaveral and Cocoa Beach, Florida with barrier islands attached to the mainland with a port inlet. The proposed site is also next to the Los Palomas Wildlife Management Area and Boca Chica State Park similar to the uninhabited Merritt Island National Refuge. But there is one major difference between launches from the proposed Texas site and that of launches from Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - a clear shot to the open Atlantic Ocean.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">According to the FAA notice, all launch trajectories would be to the east over the Gulf of Mexico. Although the notice does not give an exact trajectory, a launch due east from the Texas site would place a payload over heavily populated South Florida metro areas of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach within minutes after launch (yellow line on map above).</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size:100%;">Now to be clear, the possibility of a payload crashing down on Florida is extremely remote because the launch failure would have to occur within a window measured in milliseconds at the altitude necessary for a payload to reach Florida. But ever since the creation of NASA, space flight is shaped more often by politics rather than practicality (which is why NASA has centers spread across the U.S. to curry favor for funding from politicians). Most people would rather have a 0 percent chance of having a satellite crash on them than a .00000000000001 chance. The irony of the Texas site is that the Space Coast of Florida would actually lie in a potential launch debris field.</span></div> <div style="font-family: lucida grande; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify; font-family: lucida grande;"> <span style=" ;font-size:100%;" >Safety issues will be addressed by the FAA, along with environmental studies and other factors for consideration. The <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/04/10/2012-8556/office-of-commercial-space-transportation-notice-of-intent-to-prepare-an-environmental-impact#p-12">full FAA notice</a> also solicits comments from the public.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-3270808408224354170?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/04/will-space-x-brownsville-site-pose.html
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MULE DEER FOUNDATION STARTING NEW CAMERON COUNTY CHAPTER
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCtFZxGDF_uE1SzyJFJh7-Cp2t43i8FslGiw0gMmMpp83RaWZCTv9t2suMkgLM8EJRR2ilgwXgCOcWdPIv-suMQO-aC96Fn9sXFKQesNsvxfOm-1DfaO7cPBqr9cYNqCVFNz7R6u9B9kg/s1600/mdeer.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCtFZxGDF_uE1SzyJFJh7-Cp2t43i8FslGiw0gMmMpp83RaWZCTv9t2suMkgLM8EJRR2ilgwXgCOcWdPIv-suMQO-aC96Fn9sXFKQesNsvxfOm-1DfaO7cPBqr9cYNqCVFNz7R6u9B9kg/s400/mdeer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736546913133908530" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.lsonews.com/hunting-news/2138-edited-for-web-by-conor-harrison"><span style="font-style: italic;">Lone Star Outdoor News</span></a><br /><br />The Mule Deer Foundation is looking for members for a new chapter in South Texas.<br /><br />The Mule Deer Foundation, a 25-year-old grassroots conservation organization, is starting a local chapter in the Cameron County area. An organizational meeting will be held Wed., May 16, 2012, at the Loma Alta Skeet and Trap Range, 500 Old Port Isabel Rd., Brownsville, Texas. The meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. All interested individuals are encouraged to attend and bring along a friend.<br /><br />The Mule Deer Foundation is nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of mule deer, black-tailed deer and their habitat. Unlike other big game animals, mule deer have not adapted well to changes in their environment. As urban areas continue to sprawl, and more people build homes in rural settings, mule deer and their habitat suffer. Throw in a few major interstate highways and an occasional Texas drought, and it is a recipe for disaster. But we can help change the future for mule deer.<br /><br />Nearly 115 local MDF chapters are located throughout the central and western United States. Chapter members help raise money for conservation, initiate programs that benefit wildlife and offer educational and outdoor opportunities to all.<br /><br />Your support helps fund:<br /><br />• Habitat Enhancement Projects<br />• Land and Easements Acquisitions<br />• Scientific Research<br />• Support of Responsible Wildlife Management<br />• Conservation Education<br />• Support for our Hunting Heritage<br />• Youth Programs and More!<br /><br />For more information about the MDF or about this meeting, contact<br />Charles S. Stockstill at (817) 565-7121 or charlie@muledeer.org"> charlie@muledeer.org. http://www.lsonews.com/hunting-news/2138-edited-for-web-by-conor-harrison<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-134421384889424741?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/04/mule-deer-foundation-starting-new.html
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KIDS DRESS TO THE NINES FOR BEGUM FUNDRAISER
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDN1u8bqoJd2pOIjuEvLYbPT5TqdFmRqleIfP4R4XfETrd8u5PNBth1baxDMv5kNNw7JpHsfdotIGbcT3PrmEOWa3stBb_VXfIv8KRZS41cC4tg2OJpF6t2457I87gLDHDQyPUWG2rtM8/s1600/yoli.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 417px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 535px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736525918252814034" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDN1u8bqoJd2pOIjuEvLYbPT5TqdFmRqleIfP4R4XfETrd8u5PNBth1baxDMv5kNNw7JpHsfdotIGbcT3PrmEOWa3stBb_VXfIv8KRZS41cC4tg2OJpF6t2457I87gLDHDQyPUWG2rtM8/s400/yoli.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div></div><div>Please make a note: The Yolanda Begum Children's Fashion and Talent Show slated for April 15 has been moved to Sunday April 29th. This will take place at the same location, the Valley International Country Club at 2:00 pm. Check out the post above and make your plans to attend. We hope to see you there for a fun afternoon. Please sign up on the Yolanda Begum Children's Fashion and Talent Show Event Page on Facebook.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-4755220300777546347?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/04/kods-put-on-nines-for-brgum-fundraiser.html
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FEDS MOVE TO SEIZE PROPERTIES IN HARLINGEN, BROWNSVILLE, SPI
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<div>The San Antonio Express-News reported today that the federal government is moving to sieze commercial and residential properties in San Antobio and in the Rio Grande Valley they allege were purchased with money embezzled from the government of Coahuila, according to court documents cited by the newspaper.</div><br /><div>The daily reported that the laundering of state funds was orchestrated by Hector Javier Villarreal, 41, the former Coahuila state treasurer, who is wanted on money laundering and <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBmWvonSdFKDORXbPS9JblUNZtnYG4AlOFh-_FnkLNzntqor7WuzFendJiKyT6oTJAcidofoslgnqmdshjQiPrSBas6T-fchzQ0IfEmwAoNDfL1lBaBju2I77z7nKs7YAr88xqm09VXz0/s1600/villarreal.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 214px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 198px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736517425380731154" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBmWvonSdFKDORXbPS9JblUNZtnYG4AlOFh-_FnkLNzntqor7WuzFendJiKyT6oTJAcidofoslgnqmdshjQiPrSBas6T-fchzQ0IfEmwAoNDfL1lBaBju2I77z7nKs7YAr88xqm09VXz0/s320/villarreal.jpg" /></a>engaging in organized criminal activity charges in Bexar County, and quoted a spokesman for the Texas attorney general's office.<br />Villarreal, who's at large, is also wanted in Mexico, where authorities say he falsified documents to borrow $222 million on the state's credit, then shuffled the money to family in the United States.</div><br /><div>They're going after a condo unit on South Padre Island and a carwash in Harlingen. </div><br /><div><em>In Brownsville, they're trying to seize a house and several commercial properties, including an unfinished apartment complex, a gas station and another carwash at the corner of Boca Chica Boulevard and Padre Highway, a busy intersection home to a number of chain restaurants and stores</em>.<br />Villarreal, a former computer equipment salesman who went into government service in 2008, was arrested in Mexico in October 2011 and was freed after posting bail of 10 million pesos, about $769,000. Shortly afterward, he came to the U.S.</div><br /><div>Read more: <a style="COLOR: #003399" href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/DA-feds-in-SA-file-claim-to-6-5-million-and-a-3516621.php#ixzz1tMO7RjIW">http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/DA-feds-in-SA-file-claim-to-6-5-million-and-a-3516621.php#ixzz1tMO7RjIW</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-8105914916863992985?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/04/feds-move-to-seize-properties-in.html
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AT THE PORT: DUBIOUS NUMBERS, DUBIOUS CLAIMS FROM EDDIE AND THE SUNSHINE BOYS
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />If we are to believe the statements attributed to Port of Brownsville executive director Eddie Campirano and his PR man Manny Ortiz, the Navigation District has caught fire and we have now reached a decade high import of cargo volumes under their able watch.<br />"The Port of Brownsville enjoyed its best year in terms of cargo volume moving through the port," the <em>Brownsville Herald</em> reported in a front-page lead story Thursday. He went on to tell the Herald's reporter who dutifully regurgitated the info to us gullible readers, that the port "moved more than 6.1 million metric tons in 2011 â€" a 16 percent increase over 2010."In fact, Campirano waxed a few paragraphs further in the article, "Brownsville is one of the top three U.S. steel ports only behind Houston and New Orleans."<br />Heady stuff, isn't it?<br />But something didn't sound quite right to some longtime port observers.<br />Since 2008, the port has been trying to regain ground against a worldwide recession that saw steel cargoes â€" and other related imports â€" plunge to all-time lows. In fact, 2008 is seen as the banner year for ports along the Gulf Coast.<br />The Port of Brownsville, for example, reported to the Texas Port Authority that in that year, 6,300,000 metric tons of cargo moved through its wharves and docks. Now, we're feeble minded with numbers sometimes, but it does seem that the 6.3 million metric tons reported in 2008 when compared with the 6.1 million metric tons for 211 still has us lagging behind the cargoes moving though the Golden Ditch a scant three years ago, never mind, a whole decade. In fact, the port's audit for 2010 by Long & Chilton reported that "revenues from vessel services related to cargo traffic were...down 17 percent."<br />A 16 percent increase in cargoes in 2011 would mean we're still not quite up to 2008 levels. wouldn't it?<br />But don't take our word for it, check it out yourself.<br />On Page A-4, the numbers reported by the Authority, and provided by the Port of Brownsville clearly shows this.<br /><a href="ftp://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/library/reports/gov/tpp/tpa_report10.pdf">ftp://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/library/reports/gov/tpp/tpa_report10.pdf</a><br />Campirano is one of 7 members of the The Texas Port Authority Advisory Committee<br />appointed by the Texas Transportation Commission. The purpose of the committee is to provide a forum for the exchange of information between the commission, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and committee members representing the port industry in Texas and others who have an interest in ports.<br />So, if anybody should know that the claims made in the newspaper w<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiitQhz9A4fe9QIQhyUDeKG3qJuLx3klSSVfsWZHrJdYh2NwNG4i5ETwMBZiZRdBWg_RY8C9ugRn-mBtffxjGlcOiQ0RfyVi7FIJvHQn-WfpfvfI-4KOjEQh876cDh1VAe2bzkoimJzas/s1600/port.png"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736504759319661538" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiitQhz9A4fe9QIQhyUDeKG3qJuLx3klSSVfsWZHrJdYh2NwNG4i5ETwMBZiZRdBWg_RY8C9ugRn-mBtffxjGlcOiQ0RfyVi7FIJvHQn-WfpfvfI-4KOjEQh876cDh1VAe2bzkoimJzas/s400/port.png" /></a>ere dubious at best, it would have to be Eddie.<br />We asked about the apparent inconsistency and got back a colorful graph in return that seemingly supported the port's claims. But there was nary a word about the numbers provided by Campirano and the port administration to the Texas Port Authority that would seem to challenge their credibility with the current claims. In the interest of fairness, we<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC7d92y9ux3pbkbq6SuVElKx-s0eQJ4014LKYQKMYJXS-cM9AzNRk3Cjy7VxOwAJMNm1YUq8FskNdfsgCmYtYTKgZPUQXs8G96datZjd0Ilpd33BrYjaEPVo7aTTKX3NKYN5vk1Ux8Ly8/s1600/port.png"></a> print that graph (it's mighty pretty, Manny) here.<br /><br />OK. So what gives?<br />Did the port lie to the Texas Port Authority, or is the administration lying to us?<br />Not content to fudge the cargo numbers, Eddie went on to compare Brownsville to (gasp) the ports of New Orleans and Houston.<br />Now, if we in 2011 handled 6.1 million metric tons in 2011, let's see how we stack up against New Orleans.<br />According to its website, the "Port of New Orleans handles about 62 million short tons of cargo a year. The port also handles about 50,000 barges and 700,000 cruise passengers per year with several ships from Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian cruise lines making it one of the nation's premier cruise ports."<br />So let's be merciful and just skip the comparison with the Port of Houston, shall we?<br />Then we hear Eddie repeat the growing chant that manufacturers have grown disillusioned with China and are now returning to the Western Hemisphere to set up shop. The examples are at best inconsequential. There's an auto plant here, an electronics maquila there. But if we are to believe the cheerleaders at the port, "Mexico is the new China," and Brownsville is poised to pluck the benefits of this new trend.<br />Somebody better tell the Mexican Maquila Association and its chambers of commerce that they are enjoying the winter of discontent with China by worldwide manufacturers. Except for a few anecdotal examples, this just ain't so. Delphi moved out of Mexico this past year to build huge plants in rural China, as did a host of other manufacturers from the U.S. and other countries and continue to do so. That's not going to change in the foreseeable future, Eddie's wishes notwithstanding. But we can dream, though, can't we?<br />Oh, there's more.<br />"I heard a term the other day" Campirano expounded against a backdrop of former port commissioners in the port board 's meeting room: "'We are now the Saudi Arabia of natural gas.'"<br />Now, we have nothing against thinking big when it comes to the future of our port. In fact, we're all for it to progress out of its Middle Age thinking that left us effectively out of the containerized cargo market for decades as past port board members with interest in commercial fishing struggled to save their shrimping investments and kept us in the backwaters of world commerce.<br />Let's just say that after some lean years (three, to be exact), the port is finally getting back to its 2008 levels of cargo and that we hope we sustain this trend. We have four years to make this up. What Campirano and Ortiz are really saying is that the movement of cargo through the port is directly affected by the global economy and that â€" being situated on the border with emerging economies like Mexico and Latin America â€" our economic fortunes are directly tied to the vagaries of those economic dynamics.<br />It doesn't matter that Campirano â€" at $175,000 â€" goes to China and spends $1,800 on a single meal in Shanghai with two other commissioner one day, then comes back the next day and spends another $1,600 on another single meal â€" this time with the two commissioner and Brownsville Economic Development Corporations guru Jason Hilts as a guest.<br />That and other junkets under the guise of seeking business by the marketing directors, commissioners and their flunkies to all points of the world really didn't help to spur this increase of cargoes at the port. The upswing in the in the Mexican economy â€" tied as it is to the recovering global economy â€" did.<br />With any luck, 2012 will be the year that the port finally come out of its economic doldrums and â€" regardless who's at the helm â€" might become the economic engine it has the potential of becoming to provide opportunity to local communities and give people work.<br />For the meantime, take it easy on the superlatives and just get the job done, please.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-8137844771091428190?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/04/by-juan-montoya-if-we-are-to-believe.html
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JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, OR WAS IT FORGOT?
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"<em>When I hold you in my arms</em><br /><br /><div><em>And I feel my finger on your trigger</em></div><br /><div><em>I know nobody can do me no harm because..."</em></div><br /><div>Happiness is a Warm Gun</div><br /><div style="font-style: italic;">Lennon-McCartney</div><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div>By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong></div><br /><div>If you have attended the many pachangas and fundraisers this primary season, you have probably stood around the keg in the corner trading political rumors and in<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzA-28je7Iln8nvPWei8c9aNQvcwKuV9DNSNIcv1eCKJ_XDnlvs0X-NSWOXM8ZDfStxABr150LluC1_RyOsqq3P0a6yIRDlaOlxqvZpr7WZKfm_jUQtUvHoFJQ_2PsHbAzoFrtjDlR6Cc/s1600/gun.png"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 256px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736493233891701074" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzA-28je7Iln8nvPWei8c9aNQvcwKuV9DNSNIcv1eCKJ_XDnlvs0X-NSWOXM8ZDfStxABr150LluC1_RyOsqq3P0a6yIRDlaOlxqvZpr7WZKfm_jUQtUvHoFJQ_2PsHbAzoFrtjDlR6Cc/s320/gun.png" border="0" /></a>side scuttlebutt with the boys (and girls).</div><br /><div>The saying that you shout believe only half of what you see and nothing of what you hear might well apply to the level of discourse around the barrel of mirth. </div><br /><div>"Did you hear so-and-so was messing around with so-and-so's wife (secretary, ex-wife, girlfriend, fill in the appropriate culprit in the blank)?</div><br /><div>Or, "Did you hear who's going to get indicted?", a popular phrase in the post-Limas era that stops the Styrofoam cup in mid air as people strain to hear over the hubbub of conversation and norteño music blaring from the electrified conjunto nearby.</div><br /><div>Law enforcement candidates are by far the notorious at spreading gossip. </div><br /><div>There are rumors aplenty that some of the law-enforcement candidates had their homework done by others to pass their certification, that the sheriff often gets lost in the back county roads because he forgets where he's at, that a candidate for sheriff has had women troubles before and that reports exist, that a candidate whose campaign photo has him wearing a gun when he's not supposed to because he's not currently a peace officer, etc.</div><br /><div>But a recent fundraiser for an elected official, the teller of the following rumor got the award for best topic hands down.</div><br /><div>"Did you hear of the candidate for constable who lost his gun and couldn't find it for a whole three weeks?", he asked casually as he pumped on the keg valve to increase the flow.</div><br /><div>The conversation came to a halt at this delicious tidbit.</div><br /><div>Now, there is nothing more circumspect than a Cameron County political gossip. They tell you just enough for you to try to guess who they're talking about.</div><br /><div>For example, there are at two candidates for Constable Pct. 1. They are Horacio Zamora and Pedro Antonio “Pete†Collazo.<br />For Constable Pct. 2 you have Juan Torres, Roel Arreola, Pedro “Pete†Avila Jr. and Abelardo “Abel†Gomez Jr. Likewise, for Constable Pct. 3, Joe Cavazos and Frank Robles Jr. are vying for the position. In the race for Constable Pct. 4, Benito “Benny†Errisuriz, Juan Muñoz and Merced Burnias Jr. are in the running. and out in the boondocks, in the race for Constable Pct. 5, Reynaldo Gonzalez Sr., Joe Frias, Cesar Rene Diaz and Angela Ramirez-Gonzalez are the candidates. </div><br /><div>They are all democrats and no Republican opponents will await the eventual winners of the May 29 primary in the November general election.</div><br /><div>With all these potential targets, you would almost have to flip a coin to determine who they are talking about. </div><br /><div>"This person also worked for a while as an investigator with the DA," the gossip hinted, throwing a piece of raw meat at the frenzy of piranhas around the keg.</div><br /><div>Now, it would be even harder to guess even with that clue because some constables â€" at one time or another â€" have performed work in their jurisdictions for the county DA or the Cameron County Sheriff. What could be more convenient than having a resource who knows his jurisdiction better than most?</div><br /><div>Having gotten to bite and left us salivating at the tidbit, the the gossip made his way to the conjunto but not before he hurled his last hook.</div><br /><div>"He already recovered his gun, but we don't know whether he replaced it with another or if it's the same one," he smiled as he turned his back on the group and walked away. </div><br /><div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7332541975974400896?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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ERNIE HERNANDEZ GOES TO THE DOGS: HE'S AT IT AGAIN, MA
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br /><br />Like a recurring bad <em>novela,</em> Cameron County Precinct 2 Commissioner Ernie Hernandez is making a move to advance his daughter Erin's political prospects at the expense of poor families in the county's forgotten extreme east side.<br /><br />Just as he did last month when he pulled his longtime support at the last moment and folded to the vocal anti-toll road crowd against the Westside Parkway, Ernie is now sniffing at the potential political benefits that he could accrue if he appears to be in support for an animal shelter from the animal-rights crowd.<br /><br />Now he's proposing to change the allocation of the some $1 million from the $23.6 million bond issuance approved by the county commissioners last year.<br /><br />He is proposing to give up his $500,00 allocated for an Olmito Community Center and have Pct. 1 Commissioner Sofie Benavides give up the rest from her $1.4 million allocation for the Pete Benavides Park and Browne Road Social Center improvements.<br /><br />That center â€" the cornerstone of years of service from the late commissioner and his widow Sofia to the Southmost community â€" has been an ongoing project pushed by the entire commissioners court. But now, as Ernie hears the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgptrXxpzPsiOXm_TygdCgV7I4kTIkvExdVi0oJ2YTC5fVwh-lTWv1cGDyo7atOubdSKLZMyctajGT8KCcRxH4koCu3ZoX2WvkZL1EN4XIA2R3uH5CVsiTSOi4Vk8rxdPHUgBHqCiZUFbs/s1600/legacy2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 140px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736112759751888450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgptrXxpzPsiOXm_TygdCgV7I4kTIkvExdVi0oJ2YTC5fVwh-lTWv1cGDyo7atOubdSKLZMyctajGT8KCcRxH4koCu3ZoX2WvkZL1EN4XIA2R3uH5CVsiTSOi4Vk8rxdPHUgBHqCiZUFbs/s320/legacy2.jpg" /></a>drumbeat and smells the potential votes that could help his daughter Erin get elected to the coveted Justice of the Peace 2-2 position once held by the late Tony Torres, he is attempting to become the darling of the doggie crowd by forcing the court to send money their way.<br /><br />"Just as he did on the Westside Parkway, he is now trying to do the same to curry the support of the animal rights groups in Cameron County to gather sympathy for his daughter's election," said a courthouse watcher."<br /><br />Observers say that during the Parkway debate, Ernie's abstained from an initial vote and left he voting stand at 5-5. One of those voting for the Parkway project was Benavides, who said the opposition had plenty of time to object to the project but waited until the last minute, when the yes or no vote would decide its facte, to come out against it.<br /><br />After leaving the decision at a stalemate, dozens of calls to Hernandez and Benavides from anti-Parkway activists flooded the precinct office phone lines. Then, at the next meeting, not only did Hernandez vote against it, he also got the support of Stealth Mayor Tony Martinez and made his brownie points by going against it.<br /><br />"The city had supported the project all along until the vocal opposition made Ernie and Martinez back down," said a county official who attended the raucous meeting. "Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent on studies, bike trials, walkways, landscaping, you name it, everything the opposition wanted was included in the project only to have Ernie back down when he saw potential political fallout from it. The residents complained about potential noise hazards, but, hell, they used to have a freight train pass by there every day and never raised an objection.<br /><br />That was Hernandez at his political pandering best."<br /><br />Now, all of a sudden, Hernandez wants Benavides to give up on del<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFfWXqNXhKcRiuCdO2QeXAfClLnoTIltivEyPbCwuAQR5fvk_CpC7GRoltrUAFa9kh42hG9I07WZXMrk9LrU76i3jtT8JvOEBrVhujM4SimCEEl60p3mJ9elDMstgTzZ-GnSRXRkR4y1k/s1600/erneee.png"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 309px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736113075106846754" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFfWXqNXhKcRiuCdO2QeXAfClLnoTIltivEyPbCwuAQR5fvk_CpC7GRoltrUAFa9kh42hG9I07WZXMrk9LrU76i3jtT8JvOEBrVhujM4SimCEEl60p3mJ9elDMstgTzZ-GnSRXRkR4y1k/s320/erneee.png" /></a>ivering on her promises to the forgotten neighborhoods of the county's extreme east side neighborhoods and give up the money to construct a $1 million shelter for stray dogs.<br /><br />That idea is not sitting well with even with some of his longtime political supporters. One woman who has helped the Hernandezs in their past forays into the governmental coffers said this was the limit for her.<br /><br />"I don't care what you say about me after I say this," she said. "If you looked at the people that Hernandez brought to put pressure on the commissioners, they were pretty much white, middle age, middle class people who want a better animal shelter for the dogs. Ernie is willing to take the money for poor, Mexican kids in the east side barrios of Southmost and give it to them to make points for his daughter. That was the limit for me. I hope Sofia and the commisisoners don't give in to him."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-287659628972060485?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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ERNIE HERNANDEZ GOES TO THE DOGS: HE'S AT IT AGAIN, MA
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br /><br />Like a recurring bad <em>novela,</em> Cameron County Precinct 2 Commissioner Ernie Hernandez is making a move to advance his daughter Erin's political prospects at the expense of poor families in the county's forgotten extreme east side.<br /><br />Just as he did last month when he pulled his longtime support at the last moment and folded to the vocal anti-toll road crowd against the Westside Parkway, Ernie is now sniffing at the potential political benefits that he could accrue if he appears to be in support for an animal shelter from the animal-rights crowd.<br /><br />Now he's proposing to change the allocation of the some $1 million from the $23.6 million bond issuance approved by the county commissioners last year.<br /><br />He is proposing to give up his $500,00 allocated for an Olmito Community Center and have Pct. 1 Commissioner Sofie Benavides give up the rest from her $1.4 million allocation for the Pete Benavides Park and Browne Road Social Center improvements.<br /><br />That center â€" the cornerstone of years of service from the late commissioner and his widow Sofia to the Southmost community â€" has been an ongoing project pushed by the entire commissioners court. But now, as Ernie hears the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgptrXxpzPsiOXm_TygdCgV7I4kTIkvExdVi0oJ2YTC5fVwh-lTWv1cGDyo7atOubdSKLZMyctajGT8KCcRxH4koCu3ZoX2WvkZL1EN4XIA2R3uH5CVsiTSOi4Vk8rxdPHUgBHqCiZUFbs/s1600/legacy2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 140px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736112759751888450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgptrXxpzPsiOXm_TygdCgV7I4kTIkvExdVi0oJ2YTC5fVwh-lTWv1cGDyo7atOubdSKLZMyctajGT8KCcRxH4koCu3ZoX2WvkZL1EN4XIA2R3uH5CVsiTSOi4Vk8rxdPHUgBHqCiZUFbs/s320/legacy2.jpg" /></a>drumbeat and smells the potential votes that could help his daughter Erin get elected to the coveted Justice of the Peace 2-2 position once held by the late Tony Torres, he is attempting to become the darling of the doggie crowd by forcing the court to send money their way.<br /><br />"Just as he did on the Westside Parkway, he is now trying to do the same to curry the support of the animal rights groups in Cameron County to gather sympathy for his daughter's election," said a courthouse watcher."<br /><br />Observers say that during the Parkway debate, Ernie's abstained from an initial vote and left he voting stand at 5-5. One of those voting for the Parkway project was Benavides, who said the opposition had plenty of time to object to the project but waited until the last minute, when the yes or no vote would decide its facte, to come out against it.<br /><br />After leaving the decision at a stalemate, dozens of calls to Hernandez and Benavides from anti-Parkway activists flooded the precinct office phone lines. Then, at the next meeting, not only did Hernandez vote against it, he also got the support of Stealth Mayor Tony Martinez and made his brownie points by going against it.<br /><br />"The city had supported the project all along until the vocal opposition made Ernie and Martinez back down," said a county official who attended the raucous meeting. "Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent on studies, bike trials, walkways, landscaping, you name it, everything the opposition wanted was included in the project only to have Ernie back down when he saw potential political fallout from it. The residents complained about potential noise hazards, but, hell, they used to have a freight train pass by there every day and never raised an objection.<br /><br />That was Hernandez at his political pandering best."<br /><br />Now, all of a sudden, Hernandez wants Benavides to give up on del<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFfWXqNXhKcRiuCdO2QeXAfClLnoTIltivEyPbCwuAQR5fvk_CpC7GRoltrUAFa9kh42hG9I07WZXMrk9LrU76i3jtT8JvOEBrVhujM4SimCEEl60p3mJ9elDMstgTzZ-GnSRXRkR4y1k/s1600/erneee.png"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 309px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5736113075106846754" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFfWXqNXhKcRiuCdO2QeXAfClLnoTIltivEyPbCwuAQR5fvk_CpC7GRoltrUAFa9kh42hG9I07WZXMrk9LrU76i3jtT8JvOEBrVhujM4SimCEEl60p3mJ9elDMstgTzZ-GnSRXRkR4y1k/s320/erneee.png" /></a>ivering on her promises to the forgotten neighborhoods of the county's extreme east side neighborhoods and give up the money to construct a $1 million shelter for stray dogs.<br /><br />That idea is not sitting well with even with some of his longtime political supporters. One woman who has helped the Hernandezs in their past forays into the governmental coffers said this was the limit for her.<br /><br />"I don't care what you say about me after I say this," she said. "If you looked at the people that Hernandez brought to put pressure on the commissioners, they were pretty much white, middle age, middle class people who want a better animal shelter for the dogs. Ernie is willing to take the money for poor, Mexican kids in the east side barrios of Southmost and give it to them to make points for his daughter. That was the limit for me. I hope Sofia and the commisisoners don't give in to him."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-287659628972060485?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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MLS RECOGNIZES BROWNTOWN PLAYER AGUIRRE AS ONE OF SIX TOP DALLAS PLAYERS
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By <strong>Major League Soccer, USA</strong> <br /><div>Six players -- five field players and a goalie -- were named finalists to represent FC Dallas at the Sueno MLS 2012, the nationally televised player search showcased on Univision's Republica Deportiva.<br />Now celebrating its sixth year, Sueno MLS 2012 is being staged by three MLS clubs: first-time host Seattle, Chivas USA and FC Dallas. Up to 400 tryout spots were made available at each city on a first-come, first-serve basis. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9tl_hlWE5nu4itYw_qPcI9c_tIg5WrcIR_rtWJKJ0ZM3s145kdNhSRy7BdEnekez6Rc-1HyI8Sw4bTjsDamk_FEij236TSezcZJTpJ3pcSHiF8xWmsQfa1xTp-7VUytHViRRiJ3Wg1c/s1600/aguirre.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 360px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 189px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5735735655798428530" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9tl_hlWE5nu4itYw_qPcI9c_tIg5WrcIR_rtWJKJ0ZM3s145kdNhSRy7BdEnekez6Rc-1HyI8Sw4bTjsDamk_FEij236TSezcZJTpJ3pcSHiF8xWmsQfa1xTp-7VUytHViRRiJ3Wg1c/s400/aguirre.jpg" /></a><br />The four-day “Final Event" will be staged in the greater Los Angeles area and hosted by former MLS star <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Guillermo Barros Schelotto</span>. The finals will include training sessions, scrimmages, guest celebrity scouts, and an opportunity to meet some of the League’s biggest stars. The champion will be crowned on May 13, live on Republica Deportiva.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">FC Dallas Favorites</span></div><br /><div><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Livan Aguirre</span> (Goalkeeper â€" 14 years old â€" Brownsville, TX). The winner of the Allstate “Good Hands†top goalkeeper award is the youngest of the Dallas 2012 finalists at only 14 years old.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Jose Hernandez</span> (Forward â€" 16 years-old â€" Dallas, TX). Born in Monterrey, Mexico, Hernandez is making his second consecutive appearance at the Sueno MLS finals. He currently attends Thomas Jefferson High School.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Pedro Ocampo </span>(Midfielder â€" 17 years old â€" Rockford, IL). Ocampo is the Dallas finalist who traveled the farthest to participate in the program, driving down with nine other teammates and their youth soccer coach.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Jose Romero</span> (Forward â€" 17 years old â€" Athens, TX) He recently completed his soccer career at Athens High School as the team’s third best all-time scorer with 44 goals.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Tony Santibanez</span> (Forward - 17 years-old â€" Plano, TX). The tall and skillful attacker captained Plano High School.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Alfredo Vasquez</span> (Midfielder â€" 17 years old â€" Athens, TX). He is a teammates of Dallas Sueno MLS finalist Jose Romero at Athens High School.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><strong>AGUIRRE</strong></div><br /><div>Born in Brownsville, Texas, a border town in the southern-most reaches of the state where more than 90 percent of the population is Hispanic, Aguirrre, the rising goalkeeper naturally developed a love for soccer at an early age and began playing at just three years old.<br />During his early soccer career, Aguirre helped lead his club teams to the Texas state championship three times and posted shutouts in each match. Aguirre realized he had his ticket â€" an undeniable talent to prevent balls from going in the back of the net â€" to get out of a city where the median income for a family is below $25,000.</div><br /><div>Although high school teams from the Rio Grande Valley â€" the region of Texas where Brownsville is located â€" have claimed soccer state championships in the past, the culture and financial situations often prevent teenagers from living out their soccer dreams. Aguirre wants to break that chain and put his hometown on the map.<br />“Everybody back in Brownsville is very excited for me. All my friends, all my family, and even soccer players from around the city are so happy for me,†Aguirre said. “No one has the opportunity to compete in an MLS tryout. My Facebook even started to go crazy because this is the first time somebody from Brownsville is doing something big in soccer.â€</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-713409615762149345?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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MLS RECOGNIZES BROWNTOWN PLAYER AGUIRRE AS ONE OF SIX TOP DALLAS PLAYERS
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By <strong>Major League Soccer, USA</strong> <br /><div>Six players -- five field players and a goalie -- were named finalists to represent FC Dallas at the Sueno MLS 2012, the nationally televised player search showcased on Univision's Republica Deportiva.<br />Now celebrating its sixth year, Sueno MLS 2012 is being staged by three MLS clubs: first-time host Seattle, Chivas USA and FC Dallas. Up to 400 tryout spots were made available at each city on a first-come, first-serve basis. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9tl_hlWE5nu4itYw_qPcI9c_tIg5WrcIR_rtWJKJ0ZM3s145kdNhSRy7BdEnekez6Rc-1HyI8Sw4bTjsDamk_FEij236TSezcZJTpJ3pcSHiF8xWmsQfa1xTp-7VUytHViRRiJ3Wg1c/s1600/aguirre.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 360px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 189px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5735735655798428530" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9tl_hlWE5nu4itYw_qPcI9c_tIg5WrcIR_rtWJKJ0ZM3s145kdNhSRy7BdEnekez6Rc-1HyI8Sw4bTjsDamk_FEij236TSezcZJTpJ3pcSHiF8xWmsQfa1xTp-7VUytHViRRiJ3Wg1c/s400/aguirre.jpg" /></a><br />The four-day “Final Event" will be staged in the greater Los Angeles area and hosted by former MLS star <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Guillermo Barros Schelotto</span>. The finals will include training sessions, scrimmages, guest celebrity scouts, and an opportunity to meet some of the League’s biggest stars. The champion will be crowned on May 13, live on Republica Deportiva.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">FC Dallas Favorites</span></div><br /><div><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Livan Aguirre</span> (Goalkeeper â€" 14 years old â€" Brownsville, TX). The winner of the Allstate “Good Hands†top goalkeeper award is the youngest of the Dallas 2012 finalists at only 14 years old.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Jose Hernandez</span> (Forward â€" 16 years-old â€" Dallas, TX). Born in Monterrey, Mexico, Hernandez is making his second consecutive appearance at the Sueno MLS finals. He currently attends Thomas Jefferson High School.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Pedro Ocampo </span>(Midfielder â€" 17 years old â€" Rockford, IL). Ocampo is the Dallas finalist who traveled the farthest to participate in the program, driving down with nine other teammates and their youth soccer coach.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Jose Romero</span> (Forward â€" 17 years old â€" Athens, TX) He recently completed his soccer career at Athens High School as the team’s third best all-time scorer with 44 goals.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Tony Santibanez</span> (Forward - 17 years-old â€" Plano, TX). The tall and skillful attacker captained Plano High School.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Alfredo Vasquez</span> (Midfielder â€" 17 years old â€" Athens, TX). He is a teammates of Dallas Sueno MLS finalist Jose Romero at Athens High School.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><strong>AGUIRRE</strong></div><br /><div>Born in Brownsville, Texas, a border town in the southern-most reaches of the state where more than 90 percent of the population is Hispanic, Aguirrre, the rising goalkeeper naturally developed a love for soccer at an early age and began playing at just three years old.<br />During his early soccer career, Aguirre helped lead his club teams to the Texas state championship three times and posted shutouts in each match. Aguirre realized he had his ticket â€" an undeniable talent to prevent balls from going in the back of the net â€" to get out of a city where the median income for a family is below $25,000.</div><br /><div>Although high school teams from the Rio Grande Valley â€" the region of Texas where Brownsville is located â€" have claimed soccer state championships in the past, the culture and financial situations often prevent teenagers from living out their soccer dreams. Aguirre wants to break that chain and put his hometown on the map.<br />“Everybody back in Brownsville is very excited for me. All my friends, all my family, and even soccer players from around the city are so happy for me,†Aguirre said. “No one has the opportunity to compete in an MLS tryout. My Facebook even started to go crazy because this is the first time somebody from Brownsville is doing something big in soccer.â€</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-713409615762149345?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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FITCH RATES BCIC'S SALES TAX BONDS 'AA-'; OUTLOOK STABLE
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAA3ZS2zTMPDmWMvOjbGSIubkcEslXr3vuxzi-xqDTxSPN1zzsDDoP5s6hCLCXAclCeAMN8BoqD9Om3dpQsLtMiJfwQhNSPJHnrxrXkCNYGzQ-KBKJp27GyMtapdOPL0bGXNfgj80wss4/s1600/hypno.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAA3ZS2zTMPDmWMvOjbGSIubkcEslXr3vuxzi-xqDTxSPN1zzsDDoP5s6hCLCXAclCeAMN8BoqD9Om3dpQsLtMiJfwQhNSPJHnrxrXkCNYGzQ-KBKJp27GyMtapdOPL0bGXNfgj80wss4/s400/hypno.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5735413831108740146" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fitch-rates-brownsville-community-improvement-corp-texas-sales-tax-bonds-aa-outlook-stable-2012-04-24">BUSINESS WIRE</a><br /><br />Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA-' rating to the following Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation, Texas (BCIC) bonds: <p id="" class=""> --$8.175 million sales tax revenue refunding bonds, series 2012. </p><p id="" class=""> The bonds are expected to price via negotiation the week of April 23. Proceeds will be used to refund a portion of the corporation's outstanding obligations.</p><p class="">In addition, Fitch affirms the following ratings: </p> <p id="" class=""> --$157 million city of Brownsville limited tax bonds and certificates of obligation (COs) at 'AA-'; </p> <p id="" class=""> --$9.76 million BCIC sales tax bonds at 'AA-'. </p> <p id="" class=""> The Rating Outlook is Stable. [AUSTIN, Texas, Apr 24, 2012] </p><p id="" class=""> <span style="font-weight: bold;">SECURITY </span></p> <p class=""> The BCIC sales tax revenue bonds are secured by a 1/4% sales tax. The bonds are also secured by a cash funded reserve fund in an amount equal to the average annual debt service of all parity obligations. The GOs and COs are secured by an annual property tax levy, limited to $2.50 per $100 taxable assessed valuation (TAV). The COs are additionally payable from surplus revenues of the city's municipal landfill. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Fitch%20Rates%20Brownsville%20Community%20Improvement%20Corp,%20Texas%20Sales%20Tax%20Bonds%20%27AA-%27;%20Outlook%20Stable">[click here for full article]</a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-735692708394799189?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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BVU STUDENT FROM BROWNSVILLE TO PRESENT RESEARCH ON CLEAN WATER AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeD8ZtN5WCf11y69odbmq7S7MGiHHGCbVrHT3PPn7OPDFt47mkYUhDTLers4tLmlQ8R3I_snF_l7XmnOdzoVG63LUBNgOxNczzPksHbUWdulRmlJW0_a-zPkErVICpjM4SV5N2BRHwBR8/s1600/KPerez.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeD8ZtN5WCf11y69odbmq7S7MGiHHGCbVrHT3PPn7OPDFt47mkYUhDTLers4tLmlQ8R3I_snF_l7XmnOdzoVG63LUBNgOxNczzPksHbUWdulRmlJW0_a-zPkErVICpjM4SV5N2BRHwBR8/s400/KPerez.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5735406590436056978" border="0" /></a><a href="http://readme.readmedia.com/BVU-student-to-present-research-on-clean-water-at-international-conference/3831408#%21prettyPhoto"><span style="font-style: italic;">By readMedia</span></a><br /><br />STORM LAKE, IA -- Kimberly Perez, a junior mathematics and biochemistry double major at Buena Vista University (BVU) from Brownsville, Texas, will make a presentation on her research project at the International Conference of Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts in San Diego, Calif., in June.<p> </p><p> The abstract of Kimberly's project - entitled "Use of Cladophora spp. to Purify Freshwater Systems and Produce Biodiesel on a Laboratory Scale" - was also presented at the recent Iowa Academy of Science annual meeting and will be presented at BVU's Scholars Day on April 30.</p><p> </p><p> As a J. Leslie Rollins Fellow, Kimberly spent the summer of 2010 doing missionary work in Guatemala. This experience inspired Kimberly's project. She was working in a clinic and saw much illness as a result of a lack of clean drinking water.</p><p> </p><p> "I watched people walk long distances to get water, and then that water had to be boiled before anyone could drink it. I watched people drink Coke all day because water was unavailable. In order to obtain clean water, it had to be bought from stores," says Kimberly. "It pained me that they had water sources but they were polluted and therefore unsafe to drink. Having studied particularly in the science field, I know how vital water is to life and that's where I began my thought process to develop my research. I thought the reason underdeveloped countries didn't clean their polluted water was because of the cost."</p><p> </p><p> Kimberly theorized that if underdeveloped countries could make money out of cleaning their water, they would be more prone to cleaning it. In addition, the citizens of that country would have ready access to clean, drinkable water. Kimberly decided to see if it was possible to clean polluted water with algae and then use the same algae to produce biodiesel.</p><p> </p><p> Dr. Melinda Coogan, assistant professor of biology, has been a mentor for Kimberly throughout the course of the project, providing insights and asking questions.</p><p> </p><p> "In her major, Kimberly has numerous career options, and she is taking advantage of her opportunities with BVU as she continues to investigate these options," says Coogan. "Kimberly has an intuitive understanding of how providing basic human needs in a sustainable manner not only helps maintain healthy ecosystems, but it also contributes to a higher level of human health. Having her project accepted for presentation with the international conference in San Diego this June will allow her the opportunity to further apply critical thinking and creative problem solving skills as she discusses her project with scientists from around the globe."</p><p> </p><p> Through BVU's Honors Program, Kimberly was able to secure funding for the crucial tests in her research.</p><p> </p><p> "BVU, through its rigorous courses that I have completed and multiple opportunities to present any type of research, has helped me prepare for this opportunity," says Kimberly. "I have gained confidence in speaking and making presentations to an audience. I am more than prepared to present my research in California."(04/25/2012)(readMedia)</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-6882006693161612082?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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FITCH RATES BCIC'S SALES TAX BONDS 'AA-'; OUTLOOK STABLE
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAA3ZS2zTMPDmWMvOjbGSIubkcEslXr3vuxzi-xqDTxSPN1zzsDDoP5s6hCLCXAclCeAMN8BoqD9Om3dpQsLtMiJfwQhNSPJHnrxrXkCNYGzQ-KBKJp27GyMtapdOPL0bGXNfgj80wss4/s1600/hypno.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAA3ZS2zTMPDmWMvOjbGSIubkcEslXr3vuxzi-xqDTxSPN1zzsDDoP5s6hCLCXAclCeAMN8BoqD9Om3dpQsLtMiJfwQhNSPJHnrxrXkCNYGzQ-KBKJp27GyMtapdOPL0bGXNfgj80wss4/s400/hypno.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5735413831108740146" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fitch-rates-brownsville-community-improvement-corp-texas-sales-tax-bonds-aa-outlook-stable-2012-04-24">BUSINESS WIRE</a><br /><br />Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA-' rating to the following Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation, Texas (BCIC) bonds: <p id="" class=""> --$8.175 million sales tax revenue refunding bonds, series 2012. </p><p id="" class=""> The bonds are expected to price via negotiation the week of April 23. Proceeds will be used to refund a portion of the corporation's outstanding obligations.</p><p class="">In addition, Fitch affirms the following ratings: </p> <p id="" class=""> --$157 million city of Brownsville limited tax bonds and certificates of obligation (COs) at 'AA-'; </p> <p id="" class=""> --$9.76 million BCIC sales tax bonds at 'AA-'. </p> <p id="" class=""> The Rating Outlook is Stable. [AUSTIN, Texas, Apr 24, 2012] </p><p id="" class=""> <span style="font-weight: bold;">SECURITY </span></p> <p class=""> The BCIC sales tax revenue bonds are secured by a 1/4% sales tax. The bonds are also secured by a cash funded reserve fund in an amount equal to the average annual debt service of all parity obligations. The GOs and COs are secured by an annual property tax levy, limited to $2.50 per $100 taxable assessed valuation (TAV). The COs are additionally payable from surplus revenues of the city's municipal landfill. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Fitch%20Rates%20Brownsville%20Community%20Improvement%20Corp,%20Texas%20Sales%20Tax%20Bonds%20%27AA-%27;%20Outlook%20Stable">[click here for full article]</a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-735692708394799189?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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BVU STUDENT FROM BROWNSVILLE TO PRESENT RESEARCH ON CLEAN WATER AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeD8ZtN5WCf11y69odbmq7S7MGiHHGCbVrHT3PPn7OPDFt47mkYUhDTLers4tLmlQ8R3I_snF_l7XmnOdzoVG63LUBNgOxNczzPksHbUWdulRmlJW0_a-zPkErVICpjM4SV5N2BRHwBR8/s1600/KPerez.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeD8ZtN5WCf11y69odbmq7S7MGiHHGCbVrHT3PPn7OPDFt47mkYUhDTLers4tLmlQ8R3I_snF_l7XmnOdzoVG63LUBNgOxNczzPksHbUWdulRmlJW0_a-zPkErVICpjM4SV5N2BRHwBR8/s400/KPerez.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5735406590436056978" border="0" /></a><a href="http://readme.readmedia.com/BVU-student-to-present-research-on-clean-water-at-international-conference/3831408#%21prettyPhoto"><span style="font-style: italic;">By readMedia</span></a><br /><br />STORM LAKE, IA -- Kimberly Perez, a junior mathematics and biochemistry double major at Buena Vista University (BVU) from Brownsville, Texas, will make a presentation on her research project at the International Conference of Algal Biomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts in San Diego, Calif., in June.<p> </p><p> The abstract of Kimberly's project - entitled "Use of Cladophora spp. to Purify Freshwater Systems and Produce Biodiesel on a Laboratory Scale" - was also presented at the recent Iowa Academy of Science annual meeting and will be presented at BVU's Scholars Day on April 30.</p><p> </p><p> As a J. Leslie Rollins Fellow, Kimberly spent the summer of 2010 doing missionary work in Guatemala. This experience inspired Kimberly's project. She was working in a clinic and saw much illness as a result of a lack of clean drinking water.</p><p> </p><p> "I watched people walk long distances to get water, and then that water had to be boiled before anyone could drink it. I watched people drink Coke all day because water was unavailable. In order to obtain clean water, it had to be bought from stores," says Kimberly. "It pained me that they had water sources but they were polluted and therefore unsafe to drink. Having studied particularly in the science field, I know how vital water is to life and that's where I began my thought process to develop my research. I thought the reason underdeveloped countries didn't clean their polluted water was because of the cost."</p><p> </p><p> Kimberly theorized that if underdeveloped countries could make money out of cleaning their water, they would be more prone to cleaning it. In addition, the citizens of that country would have ready access to clean, drinkable water. Kimberly decided to see if it was possible to clean polluted water with algae and then use the same algae to produce biodiesel.</p><p> </p><p> Dr. Melinda Coogan, assistant professor of biology, has been a mentor for Kimberly throughout the course of the project, providing insights and asking questions.</p><p> </p><p> "In her major, Kimberly has numerous career options, and she is taking advantage of her opportunities with BVU as she continues to investigate these options," says Coogan. "Kimberly has an intuitive understanding of how providing basic human needs in a sustainable manner not only helps maintain healthy ecosystems, but it also contributes to a higher level of human health. Having her project accepted for presentation with the international conference in San Diego this June will allow her the opportunity to further apply critical thinking and creative problem solving skills as she discusses her project with scientists from around the globe."</p><p> </p><p> Through BVU's Honors Program, Kimberly was able to secure funding for the crucial tests in her research.</p><p> </p><p> "BVU, through its rigorous courses that I have completed and multiple opportunities to present any type of research, has helped me prepare for this opportunity," says Kimberly. "I have gained confidence in speaking and making presentations to an audience. I am more than prepared to present my research in California."(04/25/2012)(readMedia)</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-6882006693161612082?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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