Border Voices
WRITING ON THE WALL: Zapata County residents speak up about the wall; prospect of losing land evokes greater good takings for 1950s Falcon Dam construction
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“The government has a green light to destroy this river”
Culture
Poets recite at “Poetry Under the Sundial” at the Treviño Uribe Rancho in SYT
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River Pierce Foundation hosts event
Community
Restoration of historic Leyendecker Home highlights its elegant and enduring features
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Beto Gonzalez: home will feature four bed and breakfast suites
Frontera
THE WALL: Earthjustice adds RGISC to lawsuit challenging Trump’s declaration of a national emergency
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Proposed wall to go through Laredo’s urban center
Culture
1938 program for monument dedication offers snapshot of pre-WW II Laredo
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Monument commemorated City’s founding
Green
Matagorda Bay’s avian diversity offers coastal birding experience like no other
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Palacios hosts third annual Matagorda Bay Birdfest February 15, 16, & 17
Green
RGISC, property owners file illegal dumping complaint against concrete plant upriver of City’s intakes for municipal water delivery
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Environmental assault: flow of Santa Isabel Creek — a tributary to the Río Grande — blocked
Government and Politics
De Leon had detractors in and out of City government, but he also established viable working relationships
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City poised to launch national search for De Leon’s replacement
Green
USBP, RGISC, Audubon meet to discuss Feds no-blade-of-grass-left-behind to clearing valuable avian habitat and riparian ecosystems
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USBP has funds to denude 16 acres of native flora; none to re-vegetate area to mitigate erosion
Culture
Exodus and diaspora: as the North Vietnamese marched on Saigon, 12-year-old Yến Bạch Nguyễn boarded a merchant ship in the China Sea
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The odyssey’s compass point rested at Matagorda Bay