Commentary & Opinion
Boulevard of the Americas design: two of three firms follow City RFQ specs and citizen charette input
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Council selects firm Monday
Commentary & Opinion
Ask for the key if you don’t want to climb through any of the broken windows
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Who would throw $25K into this blighted hazard?
(Answer implied.)
Commentary & Opinion
Old Mercy Hospital ad hoc chair La Vaude: demolition is a remedy; City wants to find Hail Mary funding to repurpose Carranco’s blighted and decrepit ruin in the Heights
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“We can hear the owner’s sad story once more about his lack of money to fix the massive health and quality of life problem he created; we can hear about his phantom buyer, but what we are not going to hear is that the owner is going to take full responsibility for the mess he made.”
Culture
Thompson book-signing reception well attended; author donates proceeds of book sales to WCHF after costs
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Coach Batey and 1956 MHS basketball team honored at Villa Antigua museum reception
Government and Politics
Lead plaintiffs El Cenizo, Mayor Reyes await SB4 ruling along with Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Laredo, La Joya, and El Paso County
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This is not El Cenizo’s first stand to uphold civil rights against government overreaching.
Government and Politics
De Leon and López to attend Bloomberg Harvard Leadership Program
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Participation in program fully funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies
Santa Maria Journal
Storm defies la canicula and rains bounty on a parched landscape
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I find here the redemptive, restorative power of work.
Community
From rotary dial to Smartphones: Lupita Zepeda’s four-decade tenure in telecommunications
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Zepeda will take post as district administrator for District 80 office of State Rep. Tracy O. King.
Government and Politics
City Manager Horacio De Leon Jr.: focused, data-driven decision making
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On the learning curve from code enforcement
officer to Laredo City manager
