Dysfunctional Bloggers Only Safety Net Left for the City of Brownsville

  




      As my late uncle Joe would phrase it:  "Brownsville is in a mell of a hess".    Not only is our city and county likely the poorest in the United States, but we maintain a high tolerance for political corruption.   The legally forced departures of Abel Limas and Conrado Cantu, Jr. is not great consolation to a community still retaining Gilberto Hinojosa, Eddie Hernandez, Jr., Eddie Lucio, Rene Oliveira and however many letters of the alphabet eventually follow Limas.
     If you share the above pessimism, please add the fact that this town has no newspaper to the equation.   Tragically, the Brownsville Herald daily uses the precious paper pulp of sacrificial trees to print a bland assortment of innocuous, inoffensive, meaningless "stories" with the depth of a resaca in a six month drought.  TV journalism seems limited to segments like "Dirty Dining", utiizing health inspection reports to feature restaurants with sanitation problems or perfect scores.  In all fairness, establishments that serve pre-formed frozen meats, potato patties, powdered eggs and microwaved breads have a distinct advantage over restaurants that actually do cooking.  No knife ever touches a vegetable on a cutting board and of course, the roaches are not fooled by such so-called food.
     So, we're down to the above-pictured flawed assortment, not a Robert Redford or Ricardo Montalbán in the mix.  These are the four that I know, so I include them all because they meet one simple criteria.  Either you blog or you don't.   Whatever you think of the four guys above, they have risked ever enjoying a free chicken plate by giving us at least some detail with regard to the local political scene, BISD, the election process, UTB/TSC, the unions,  details that paid local journalists are unable or unwilling to provide.
     This, folks, is our safety net.