Commentary & Opinion
Orientation for Newly Elected Officials
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New City Council members get marching orders
Past Perfect
The Peyote Chronicles IV: Agent “Pussyfoot” Johnson comes to Laredo; sworn enemy of booze and peyote takes on merchants Villegas and Wormser, suppliers of sacred plant for Native American religious ceremonies
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Peyote buttons, also called “Japanese Buttons,” cost $2.5o per thousand f.o.b. Los Ojuelos in 1909; they were shipped by Tex-Mex rail from Aguilares to Laredo for distribution to reservations north of the Red River
Government and Politics
Dr. Victor Treviño is City’s next mayor; Gonzalez takes District 1 runoff race; King prevails in District 6
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Paltry voter turnout speaks volumes about civic interest in city government
Culture
A brief history of the Flor de Noche Buena
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It was named in 1836 for U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Joel Robert Poinsett
Commentary & Opinion
Elected drivellers Trump, Cruz, Paxton, Patrick, and their Laredo imitators and inferiors care little of citizens’ prosperity; their focus is reelection
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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