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Commentary & Opinion

Commentary & Opinion

Hey, Cornyn and Cruz: you can’t powder over history’s warts

By Rev. James C. Harrington | March 1, 2023

Trying to rewrite the history of the Texas Rangers is offensive – they should stop trying.

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First, they came for the gays then they came for me, but there was no one left to defend my arguments

By David Almaraz | February 28, 2023

Today’s Republican party is turning more far-right and white nationalistic daily. Lost is the art of compromise.

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Unbelievable in so many respects! Home in Regency has 20 junk cars in its side yard, six in the driveway, old toilet on the pool side of the house

By Maria Eugenia Guerra | January 25, 2023

Tires, auto parts, patches of oil; pool and hot tub water the color of pond scum – Dengue heaven!

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Council quashes Mayor’s motion to re-open  application period for City Manager’s position

By Maria Eugenia Guerra | January 16, 2023

Jan. 5 meeting – a lesson in transparency’s double edge: the kind rooted in honesty and the kind in the mayor’s ruse to re-open the field to local applicants

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Abbot and Paxton: punishing the innkeeper in Bethlehem

By LareDOS Staff | December 23, 2022

Abbott’s cynical spending of $14 million Texas tax dollars to inhumanely physically “relocate” some 12,000 asylum seekers was political theatrics, not benevolence

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Orientation for Newly Elected Officials

By Maria Eugenia Guerra | December 20, 2022

New City Council members get marching orders

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Elected drivellers Trump, Cruz, Paxton, Patrick, and their Laredo imitators and inferiors care little of citizens’ prosperity; their focus is reelection

By Admin | December 17, 2022

The ludicrous statements of Laredo’s Republican “leadership” inanely parroting propaganda is shameful, but not as senseless as the silence of eligible Webb County citizens not voting

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Crime Scene Confessions: Trump and his incompetent attorneys planned to overthrow the government by violent insurrection; if all you watch is Fox News, then you would not know anything

By Admin | December 7, 2022

Currently under five criminal and civil investigations, he has announced his candidacy for the presidency; he has pled the 5th 440 times – a first for any president, former or present

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The General Election: voter apathy, runoffs, and reminders that the playing field is pocked with pot holes and steep slopes

By Maria Eugenia Guerra | November 12, 2022

Serial candidates recycle themselves onto the ballot

Commentary & Opinion

Immigrants driven from their homes by callous exploitation of Abbott and DeSantis

By Rev. James C. Harrington and Rev. T. Carlos Anderson | September 21, 2022

Aim of relocation was political gain, not benevolence

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