One of the functions of the new Brownsville Police Department downtown substation will be to monitor the 40 video cameras strategically placed on light poles at a cost of $480,000.
Since "perception is reality," perhaps Brownsvillians will feel more comfortable with the extra sets of eyes provided, especially if a BPD officer is actually monitoring in the substation 24/7, although in my years of going downtown, I've not seen one violent incident, just the homeless asleep in business doorways and ladies or transvestites of the evening on street corners.
When Channel 5's Daisy Martinez interviewed Laura Foncerrada, the co-owner of El Hueso de Fraile, a downtown coffee shop/bistro, Mrs. Foncerrada agreed that video monitoring would increase business downtown, so the city may be on the right track.
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| Livestreaming Political Talk Show on Sunday(Roman Perez, Jim Barton, Christian Juarez, Erasmo Castro)
For the past two Sundays, we've joined Erasmo Castro, Roman Perez and others at 4:00 PM for a livestreamed talk show featured on Castro's Facebook page.
Two weeks ago we broadcast from Angelita's Casa de Cafe on Boca Chica Blvd. Last week we we were hosted by the law office of Angela Nix on E. Madison Street. This coming Sunday's venue will be Gio's Villa Italian Restaurant on Central Blvd.
The panel has opined about the Eddie Trevino vs. Carlos Cascos county judge race, the turbulence at the city commission and, of course, the BISD school board extravaganza.
Yesterday, Erasmo sent this note:
 
The blogger from dusty, boring McAllen gave us this tearful summation of his fruitless effort to attract readership in historic, intoxicating Brownsville. Calling himself The Republic, Duardo, while publicly wailing, vowed to "keep on keepin' on."
The boy's condescending words:
We have come to a certain celestial point where we seem to have created a new collection of city residents living and breathing only to hate The Republic. It is an expected development, what with so many birdbrains in town, yet it seems to us that that it is that low-flying provincialism that keeps Brownsville down. Our feeling is that if we have that much power over some city residents, well, we’ll keep wielding it, keep hammering home our message and keep feeling good about it.
My grandson Jack, 8, was dying to write a line here, so I will let him(I got up to let Jack do the typing and did not edit his words, even though he used Brownsville twice in a single sentence.):
Duardo isn't liked at Brownsville because he talks down to everyone here at Brownsville to look "cool."
That's true, Jack. No one likes a pompous know-it-all pontificating about their city, especially one with no real interaction or knowledge.
Duardo's anti-Brownsville diatribe continues:
This city is the proverbial Texas punching bag, a community with no cache elsewhere in the state, no art of any import nor culture of any great measure to attract the better-educated or the well-heeled, for any reason. Tourism here?Dream on.
Some guys are slow learners.
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Jack is simply the victim of bad DNA, not just Nena and I, but his dad, the counter-culture Diego Lee Rot.
ReplyDeleteThis is the new law in Trumpmerica : White people don't have to obey any stinkin' laws. In fact, like the criminal Trump, it only increases their stature when they flaunt them. Non-white people on the other hand can be killed for reaching for a cell phone. And all of them need to show white folks their papers.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Jerry McHale cut off the legs of this posting, Jim. Wonder why.
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