LareDOS[redux] | A journal of the borderlands.

The Re-Con

Do pepper spray, batons, bullet-proof vests, shields, armored vehicles, concussion grenades, tear gas, and rubber bullets make police feel invincible and superior?

By Randy Koch | February 6, 2023

The words “police force” refer less to manpower than to the all-too-common methods of many officers

Commentary & Opinion

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!

Commentary & Opinion

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

Commentary & Opinion

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

Commentary & Opinion

Orientation for Newly Elected Officials

By Maria Eugenia Guerra | December 20, 2022

New City Council members get marching orders