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Laredo

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    Ruby Rogers of The Black Belles Says Jack White's Not a Puppeteer

    Although they may look like rejects from the casting call for a sequel to The Craft, Nashville's The Black Belles are actually more original than their look suggests. The band was "discovered" by Jack White, but the four Belles see him more as mentor than Svengali. Speaking from Laredo and in anti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    Council to Get Sneak Peek at Muni Building Redo, Update on UNT's Downtown Law School

    ​Mighty kind of Dallas City Hall to offer all these briefings wrapping up a few loose ends before I get up outta here. First Sylvan Thirty, then the old Dallas High School, then the Cotton Bowl, and now Old Dallas City Hall, which one day should become the University of North Texas at Dallas Colle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Former Rangers Prez Mike Stone Talks About Helping to Save the Fort Worth Cats

    You can buy this 1953 Cats-Oilers game program for a mere $38.​Longtime Friends of Unfair Park will recall: In early 2009, United League Baseball co-founders John Bryant (yes, that John Bryant) and Byron Pierce said that come time for first pitch 2010, they would have a minor-league ballclub on th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    FedEx is the Way to Go and Other Shipping Lessons From the Big North Texas Drug Bust

    Don't trust him. He might be a drug mule.​Late yesterday, our local feds got to brag up a good half-decade's worth of sleuthing when they announced charges against more than a dozen people in connection with a multi-state cocaine- and heroin-trafficking syndicate based in Forth Worth. The acc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Last Night: Band of Horses, Midlake at Verizon Theatre

    Band of Horses, MidlakeVerizon Theatre in Grand PrairieApril 7, 2011Better than: seeing a band of actual horses, which the group of people behind me seemed to think was the funniest joke possibly ever.Band of Horses​With certain performers, it's all about the voice. And so it was last night at the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    What Makes Iguana Meat Worth Smuggling?

    www.jagendorf.comTastes just like...yeah, you guessed it.​The attempted iguana meat caper that unfolded yesterday at the Laredo border posed a pressing question for food enthusiasts: Just what did those confiscated iguana tamales taste like? U.S. Customs and Border Patrol seized 58 pounds of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    Laredo State Senator's Proposed Legislation Would Put $46 Mil Toward Muni Building Redo

    ​A subscription-only piece in the Bond Buyer this morning directs our attention to S.B. 272, which was introduced December 17 by state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, a D from Laredo. The proposed legislation would authorize the issuance of $3.2 billion in tuition-backed revenue bonds to fund what Zaffirin ... More >>

  • News

    October 21, 2010

    When Operation Streamline Deters: One Immigrant's Story

    ​A subscription-only piece in the Bond Buyer this morning directs our attention to S.B. 272, which was introduced December 17 by state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, a D from Laredo. The proposed legislation would authorize the issuance of $3.2 billion in tuition-backed revenue bonds to fund what Zaffirin ... More >>

  • News

    October 21, 2010

    Operation Streamline costs taxpayers millions, tramples on the Constitution, treats immigrants like cattle and doesn't work. So why are the feds so committed to it?

    ​A subscription-only piece in the Bond Buyer this morning directs our attention to S.B. 272, which was introduced December 17 by state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, a D from Laredo. The proposed legislation would authorize the issuance of $3.2 billion in tuition-backed revenue bonds to fund what Zaffirin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 27, 2010

    Long Way Go Down

    ​A subscription-only piece in the Bond Buyer this morning directs our attention to S.B. 272, which was introduced December 17 by state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, a D from Laredo. The proposed legislation would authorize the issuance of $3.2 billion in tuition-backed revenue bonds to fund what Zaffirin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    So Far, Dallas (And Much of Texas) Hasn't Been Very Good About Sending in Census

    ​Today, Census Bureau Director Robert Groves sent out a press release urging Texans to send back their 2010 Census forms. Because, according to the numbers, most of the state's major cities are lagging well behind the national average of a 46-percent return rate. Brownsville (at 25 percent) ranks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    Where's Greggo? In Wichita Falls. Sorta.

    ​I found Greg Williams. On the radio. Again. Sounding coherent, opionated and refreshingly edgy. Sounding like, well, the Greggo you know and love. "I've had to hook my delay back up," says Williams' new radio partner John Clay Wolfe. "This guy makes me want to cuss." Wolfe, who happens t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    If You've Ever Considered Getting Into the Spanish-Language Radio Business, Well ...

    It's doubtful you've ever heard of Border Media Partners: It's a miniature radio conglomerate founded in 2002 in McAllen but now HQ'd in the same shiny N. Central Expressway office tower as Richards Group, and it owns and operate more than two dozen Hispanic-centric stations from Waco down to Austin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2009

    Dude Food: Tacos Chano's

    Google MapsTacos Chano's934 W. Jefferson Blvd.214-948-1846Dude Factor: 6, or "Cheap Floor Tiles" on a scale of 1 ("Montezuma's Revenge") to 10 ("Cheap Prescription Meds")One of my favorite things about visiting Mexico is haggling over the price of souvenirs. There's nothing like the rush of taking h ... More >>

  • News

    October 16, 2008

    Border Town

    New book depicts true life and history on the Mexican border

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2008

    A Dallas Coke Smuggler's Blues

    New book depicts true life and history on the Mexican border

  • News

    February 14, 2008

    Texas' Peyote Hunters Struggle to Find a Vanishing, Holy Crop

    Harvesting peyote is legal for only three people, and all of them live in Texas

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2008

    Clearly, It Ain't Easy Being Green

    Harvesting peyote is legal for only three people, and all of them live in Texas

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2008

    Clinton's Coming to Texas, While Obama Takes His Campaign to Spanish-Language Radio

    Harvesting peyote is legal for only three people, and all of them live in Texas

  • News

    January 24, 2008

    Patrolling South Texas for Illegal Immigrants

    Border Patrolman Jorge Diaz left Mexico at 12. For 20 years, he's trolled the South Texas brush for illegal compatriots.

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2007

    IH-35: The Highway to Hell!

    Border Patrolman Jorge Diaz left Mexico at 12. For 20 years, he's trolled the South Texas brush for illegal compatriots.

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2007

    Waiting on a Train

    Border Patrolman Jorge Diaz left Mexico at 12. For 20 years, he's trolled the South Texas brush for illegal compatriots.

  • Calendar

    September 20, 2007

    Lesbozos

    See some queer comedy in Fort Worth

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2007

    Stampede to the Border

    See some queer comedy in Fort Worth

  • News

    July 26, 2007

    El Tren de la Muerte

    Central American migrants risk life and limb on the death trains to Texas

  • News

    June 28, 2007

    Dark Horse

    Is Steve Asmussen the greatest racehorse trainer in America, or is he a cheater?

  • Calendar

    April 12, 2007

    One Helluva Bonfire

    Joe Ely graces area bookstores

  • News

    January 18, 2007

    Paper Chase

    A former INS agent goes into business to smoke out fake documents

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2006

    The Bridge Over the River Trade

    A former INS agent goes into business to smoke out fake documents

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2006

    Crash II: Dallas

    A former INS agent goes into business to smoke out fake documents

  • News

    April 20, 2006

    The Promised Land

    A former INS agent goes into business to smoke out fake documents

  • News

    August 18, 2005

    Bubba Patrol

    The Minutemen are ready to patrol Texas' border. Are we ready for them?

  • Calendar

    August 11, 2005

    This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

    The Minutemen are ready to patrol Texas' border. Are we ready for them?

  • Calendar

    October 14, 2004

    Old Gold

    The Minutemen are ready to patrol Texas' border. Are we ready for them?

  • Calendar

    July 22, 2004

    Writers' Block

    Life is but a dream at the Annual Romance Writers of AmericaConference

  • News

    January 29, 2004

    Good as Cash

    The unlikely story of the greatest Texas athlete you've never heard of

  • Music

    January 15, 2004

    Who Is Chip Taylor?

    Songwriter, gambler, musician, legend

  • News

    November 27, 2003

    Puppet Samba

    By pulling strings, road hustlers can make the city council dance

  • News

    May 2, 2002

    Dirty or Duped?

    Who's to blame for the fake-drug scandal rocking Dallas police? Virtually everyone.

  • News

    November 15, 2001

    The Opposite of True

    How The Dallas Morning News spins the Trinity River project

  • News

    August 30, 2001

    The Lazarus Effect

    Moribund Dallas County Democrats set their sights on judgeships

  • News

    July 5, 2001

    Run Over

    Small towns in the Big Bend area brace for an onslaught of Mexican trucks rolling their way thanks to NAFTA

  • News

    May 31, 2001

    Trick Town

    Boys will be boys, especially in Nuevo Laredo, Where legal prostitution draws generations of Texas men across the border for cheap, sleazy and anonymous sex

  • News

    May 27, 1999

    Children of the Storm

    Hurricane Mitch left thousands homeless, jobless, and alone, forcing them to cross the border in search for new lives in America. And those were just the kids.

  • News

    October 29, 1998

    Bush's free ride

    With a little help from his Democratic pals, George W. Bush has become the GOP front-runner for president. But it's a cold world beyond Texas' borders, and it may take more than charm and luck to carry a good ol' boy to the White House.

  • Music

    July 17, 1997

    Roadshows

    With a little help from his Democratic pals, George W. Bush has become the GOP front-runner for president. But it's a cold world beyond Texas' borders, and it may take more than charm and luck to carry a good ol' boy to the White House.

  • Calendar

    October 31, 1996

    Events for the week

    With a little help from his Democratic pals, George W. Bush has become the GOP front-runner for president. But it's a cold world beyond Texas' borders, and it may take more than charm and luck to carry a good ol' boy to the White House.

  • Calendar

    March 28, 1996

    Events for the week

    With a little help from his Democratic pals, George W. Bush has become the GOP front-runner for president. But it's a cold world beyond Texas' borders, and it may take more than charm and luck to carry a good ol' boy to the White House.

  • Music

    August 24, 1995

    Dust and wind

    Joe Ely sends a sad, beautiful Letter to Laredo

  • News

    March 2, 1995

    Rough road ahead

    NAFTA road warriors fight it out for federal funding

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