Commentary & Opinion
Republican legislators: control the curriculum; tiptoe around slavery and racism, rewrite history
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Richard Raymond, lone Democrat to support that effort
Community
Dining under seven flags: Laredo Restaurant Week underway
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First-ever culinary celebration marks founding of Laredo
The Re-Con
Chasing the waning moon — the tidal pull of the pale gibbous moon drew me westward
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Now headed home, the moon was like me on its way east; I expected we’d find each other in the morning
Past Perfect
The remarkable life of Laredo plantswoman Anna B. Nickels lost to the river of forgetfulness; the cactus collection she discovered and assembled for the 1893 Columbia World Exposition in Chicago was located at her Arcadia Gardens nursery at the corner of Matamoros and San Agustín
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She traveled by rail to Chicago and so did a boxcar carefully packed with the 300 specimens of her exhibit
