Community
RGISC invites Laredoans to experience fall migration of the Monarch butterfly
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Nov. 6 event at Valdez Park includes unveiling of Tony Briones’ mural: Plight of the Monarch
Community
Health Department inaugurates mobile health unit with Thursday ribbon-cutting
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Unit to offer expanded services
Culture
Altares, ballet folklorico, outdoor market, film screening on tap for Laredo Center for the Arts Dia de los Muertos Celebration
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Annual event begins at 5 p.m. Nov. 2
Commentary & Opinion
A city map dotted with incidences of the pregnancies of girls, 13 to 15 were concentrated on either side of Arroyo Zacate and south of Market Street, indicating that more affluent and better educated Laredoans afforded taking their daughters out of town for abortions
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The rest were restricted by poverty, ignorance, and religion-induced shame; there was no mention of pregnancies by child abuse, rape, or incest
Past Perfect
Cactus commerce in Laredo ended after Anna B. Nickels; then came Margret Sackville Jones and her collection of 3000 species behind the Cactus Gardens Café
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Native Americans have long considered the Bordas Escarpment east of Laredo holy ground for harvesting sacramental peyote