Culture
LC’s much anticipated FlamencoFest offers hands-on workshops at all levels of skill
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August 1 tablao performance: an intimate view of the exchange between dancers, singers, musicians, and its audience
Community
Timely Border Wall and Buoys discussion set for July 25th in San Ygnacio at the Historic Plaza Blas María Uribe
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Topics to include recent flooding, buoy fiasco, siltation, water quality, flood threats, and San Ygnacio’s 1951 exclusion from the “taking” of riverfront lands for the Falcon Reservoir
Frontera
A formidable collection of one-ton-each buoys are pictured jammed up against the piers of the Colombia Solidarity bridge Sunday, July 19, at mid-morning
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Traffic was halted as the Mayor and City officials stoked their collective IQ to deal with these toneladas of flood “debris.”
Frontera
Feds plan to install 536 miles of floating barriers on Rio Grande to deter migrants
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The government is installing the first 17 miles of industrial-grade buoys in Brownsville. Experts warn the buoys could intensify flooding and change the river’s course.
Community
Unmoored one-ton buoys head south; despite “ticking time bomb” warning from experts more buoys still being planned for South Texas
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Experts who predicted this exact scenario were ignored by city and federal officials; citizens demand action to protect them from federal government