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Andrea Aguilera sits at the Erie Neighborhood House in Chicago, Thursday. Aguilera, 20, a student at a suburban Chicago college, said she feels uncertain since the election. She was brought to the country illegally as a child and has been able to get a work permit and avoid deportation through a federal program called, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
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Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) is inviting the area’s ranchers and farmers to an informational meeting with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Texas Farm Service Agency (FSA) and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service on Tuesday, November 22 at the Zapata County Pavilion, located at 405 W 23rd Street in Zapata, Texas. Registration starts at 9:30 a.m. with the program commencing at 10 a.m. “I decided to organize this
meeting as a result of meetings between my Washington, D.C., legislative staff and officials and constituents Cuellar in Zapata County last month,” said Congressman Cuellar. “My office met with county leaders, and one topic of concern was the lack of an FSA office in Zapata. I am hopeful that this meeting will answer a lot of the questions that ranchers and farmers may have. I Meeting continues on A11
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CHICAGO — Immigration hotlines are buzzing. Legal clinics are seeing an influx of clients. Public schools are fielding frantic questions from parents and students. Since the election, Donald Trump’s tough talk on immigration has stirred anxiety Future continues on A11
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Moises Hernandez looks outside from his office on Thursday. Moises Hernandez, a longtime Chicago immigration attorney, said he's seen an uptick in inquiries from clients since the election.
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Developer won’t consider reroute By John Mone and Blake Nicholson ASSOCIATED PRE SS
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Energy Transfer CEO Kelcy Warren poses for a portrait after an Associated Press interview, Friday, in Dallas. Energy Transfer is the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline, which traverses a 1000 miles, much of it through North Dakota.
DALLAS — The head of the company building the Dakota Access oil pipeline said Friday that it won’t be rerouted but that he’d like to meet with the head of an American Indian tribe to try to ease the tribe’s concerns about the project. Kelcy Warren, the CEO of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, told The Associated Press that the company has no alternative than to stick to its plan for the $3.8 billion pipeline, which would ship oil from North Dakota to Illinois and which is nearly completed. “There’s not another way. Pipeline continues on A11
A supervisory Border Patrol agent assigned to the Zapata Station was arrested this week accused of harassing, intimidating and even making one agent fear for his life, according to court documents. The suspect, Rudy Lopez, 44, turned himself to the Zapata County Sheriff’s Office to be served with an arrest warrant Monday but bonded out later that day. Lopez was charged with two counts of harassment. Border Patrol released a statement regarding the arrest of one of their own. “CBP stresses honor and integrity in every aspect of our mission, and the overwhelming majority of CBP officers and agents perform their duties with honor and distinction, working tirelessly every day to keep our country safe,” the statement reads. “We will cooperate with any criminal or administrative
‘Swept under the rug’ The National Border Patrol Council released a statement saying this was “part of a chronic situation which had previously been reported to the Border Patrol chain of command in the Laredo Sector.” However, the council said the numerous grievances, unfair labor practices and complaints filed against Lopez were “swept under the rug.” “Lopez would then file complaints against the complaining agents and union representatives through Customs and Border Protection's Joint Intake Center. “This systemic abuse of the grievance procedure and Joint Intake Center left agents with no other recourse than to con-
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1 Spiritual Wisdom on Conquering Fear. 1-2:30 p.m. Fairfield Inn & Suites Meeting Room, 700 W. Hillside Road. Free bilingual discussion with booklet included.
Today is Saturday, Nov. 19, the 324th day of 2016. There are 42 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 19, 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made the second manned landing on the moon.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21 1 Chess Club. 4—6 p.m. Every Monday. Inner City Branch Library, 202 W. Plum St. Compete in this cherished strategy game played internationally. Free. For all ages and skill levels. Instruction is offered. 1 Movie and Popcorn. Every Monday, 4—5 p.m. Santa Rita Express Library, 83 Prada Machin Drive, on the corner of Malaga Drive and Castro Urdiales Avenue. Enjoy a family movie and refreshments. 1 Ray of Light Anxiety and Depression Support Group Meeting in Spanish. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Holding Institute, 1102 Santa Maria Ave., Classroom No. 1. Adults suffering from anxiety and depression are invited to attend our free, confidential and anonymous support group meetings. For more information, call 307-2014.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22 1 Rock wall climbing. 4—5:30 p.m. LBV-Inner City Branch Library, 202 W. Plum St. Take the challenge and climb the rock wall! Fun exercise for all ages. Free. Bring ID. Must sign release form. Every Tuesday. For more information, call 795-2400 x2520. 1 LEGO Workshop. Every Tuesday, 4—5 p.m. Santa Rita Express Library, 83 Prada Machin Drive, on the corner of Malaga Drive and Castro Urdiales Avenue. Create with LEGOs, DUPLOs and robotics.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24 1 9th annual Thanksgiving 10K/5K Run/Walk. 8 a.m. 603 Shiloh Dr. $10 for students, $25 for those who register ahead of time, $30 for all who register on race day. Pre-registration begins at 7 a.m. Package pickup on Nov. 23 at Town Place Suites, 6519 Arena Blvd. from 6-8 p.m. All proceeds benefit battered women and children of surrounding areas. For questions, contact Delia “Nenita” Mendez at 285-6362. 1 36th annual Guajolote 10K and 1 Mile Walk. 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Hamilton Trophies, 1320 Garden St. Registration is at Hamilton Trophies and Hamilton Jewelry, 607 Flores Ave. $20 to run the 10K, $15 to walk the mile. $25 on race day for all participants. Register online at itsyourrace.com
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26 1 Elysian Social Club Annual Black & White Ball. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Formal attire strictly black and white. For more information call Martha Salinas at 206-0522.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28 1 Chess Club. 4—6 p.m. Every Monday. Inner City Branch Library, 202 W. Plum St. Compete in this cherished strategy game played internationally. Free. For all ages and skill levels. Instruction is offered. 1 Movie and Popcorn. Every Monday, 4—5 p.m. Santa Rita Express Library, 83 Prada Machin Drive, on the corner of Malaga Drive and Castro Urdiales Avenue. Enjoy a family movie and refreshments.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 1 Rock wall climbing. 4—5:30 p.m. LBV-Inner City Branch Library, 202 W. Plum St. Take the challenge and climb the rock wall! Fun exercise for all ages. Free. Bring ID. Must sign release form. Every Tuesday. For more information, call 795-2400 x2520. 1 LEGO Workshop. Every Tuesday, 4—5 p.m. Santa Rita Express Library, 83 Prada Machin Drive, on the corner of Malaga Drive and Castro Urdiales Avenue. Create with LEGOs, DUPLOs and robotics.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3 1 Book sale. 8:30 a.m.—1 p.m. Widener Book Room, First United Methodist Church. No admission charge. Everyone is invited.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 5 1 Movie and Popcorn. Every Monday, 4—5 p.m. Santa Rita Express Library, 83 Prada Machin Drive, on the corner of Malaga Drive and Castro Urdiales Avenue. Enjoy a family movie and refreshments. 1 Ray of Light anxiety and depression support group meeting. 6:30—7:30 p.m. Area Health Education Center, 1505 Calle del Norte, Suite 430. Every first Monday of the month. People suffering from anxiety and depression are invited to attend this free, confidential and anonymous support group meeting. While a support group does not replace an individual’s medical care, it can be a valuable resource to gain insight, strength and hope.
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This photo provided by the Wichita Police shows Sofia Victoria Gonzalez Abarca, a missing week-old baby in Wichita, Kan.
POLICE SEEK HELP TO FIND NEWBORN By Jim Suhr ASSOCIATED PRE SS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police assisted by the FBI pressed an urgent appeal for public help Friday in finding a Kansas newborn a day after her mother was shot to death in her home, insisting the weekold girl was imperiled during a disappearance the police chief considered vexing. Wichita, Kansas, police trying to locate Sofia Victoria Gonzalez Abarca, who went missing Thursday, said tips of special interest to investigators would be any reports about someone suddenly passing off
Judge orders Border Patrol to improve detention conditions PHOENIX — A federal judge in Tucson, Arizona, has ordered the Border Patrol to improve conditions at its holding facilities in most of the state, saying the agency was not following its own standards by keeping migrants in crowded, cold cells without proper bedding.
an infant as their own, or buying large quantities of baby formula or clothing. Police Chief Gordon Ramsay said leads as of late Friday afternoon were proving elusive in what he called “a very sad and tragic case.” Authorities as of Friday evening had not issued an Amber Alert seeking the public’s help in the search because investigators haven’t identified a suspect — a criteria for issuing such an advisory.“We have no information. That’s why I’m here, just pleading for information,” Ramsay said. “We’re pleading with the community, asking everybody to help us.”
Judge David Bury issued the temporary order Friday requiring the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector to provide clean mats and thin blankets to migrants held for longer than 12 hours and to allow them to wash or clean themselves. Bury said plaintiffs presented persuasive evidence that basic human needs of migrants were not being met. The case was brought last year by the ACLU, the Morrison and Foerster law firm, and other immigrant rights organizations on behalf of migrants
who say the Border Patrol’s holding facilities in Arizona are unsanitary, extremely cold and inhumane. Migrants regularly call holding cells “hieleras,” the Spanish word for “freezer.” “We believe that the conditions were so below par that when you have people, whether it’s two nights or one night sleeping on the floor, that is just below any constitutional standards or norms of decency,” ACLU senior counsel Dan Pochoda said. — Compiled from AP reports
AROUND THE WORLD Large anti-Park protest planned in Seoul SEOUL, South Korea — For the fourth straight weekend, masses of South Koreans were expected to descend on major avenues in downtown Seoul demanding an end to the presidency of Park Geun-hye, who prosecutors plan to question soon over an explosive political scandal. Police expected about 50,000 protesters to turn out on Saturday near City Hall and a boulevard in front of an old palace gate, where hundreds of thousands a week before marched in what may have been the country’s largest demonstration since it shook off dictatorship three decades ago. Organizers anticipated a crowd as large as half a million. It will be the latest in a wave of demonstrations calling for the ouster of Park, who critics accuse of undermining the
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Pedestrians wait to cross the road under a banner demanding the resignation of South Korean President Park Geun-hye.
country’s democracy by allegedly allowing a secretive confidante to manipulate power from the shadows and amass an illicit fortune. Park’s supporters were planning to hold smaller counter protests in nearby streets around Seoul Station, raising concerns about potential clashes with the anti-Park activists
whose gatherings in recent weeks have been peaceful. Prosecutors plan to formally charge Park’s friend, Choi Soon-sil, by Sunday, and also are seeking to question Park in the next few days. Choi has been suspected of interfering with state affairs despite having no government job. — Compiled from AP reports
On this date: In 1794, the United States and Britain signed Jay’s Treaty, which resolved some issues left over from the Revolutionary War. In 1831, the 20th president of the United States, James Garfield, was born in Orange Township, Ohio. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. In 1915, labor activist Joe Hill was executed by firing squad in Utah for the murders of Salt Lake City grocer John Morrison and his son, Arling. In 1919, the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles (vehr-SY’) by a vote of 55 in favor, 39 against, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification. In 1924, movie producer Thomas H. Ince died after celebrating his 42nd birthday aboard the yacht of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. (The exact circumstances of Ince’s death remain a mystery.) In 1942, during World War II, Russian forces launched their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front. In 1959, Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the unpopular Edsel. In 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel. In 1985, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva. In 1996, 14 people were killed when a commuter plane collided with a private plane at an airport in Quincy, Illinois. The United States vetoed U.N. Secretary-General Boutros BoutrosGhali’s bid for a second term. The space shuttle Columbia lifted off with the oldest crew member to that time, 61-year-old mission specialist Story Musgrave. Ten years ago: British authorities said they were investigating the apparent poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent who had been critical of the Russian government (Litvinenko died in London four days later of polonium poisoning). Actor Jeremy Slate died in Los Angeles at age 80. Five years ago: Moammar Gadhafi’s former heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, was captured by revolutionary fighters in the southern desert just over a month after his father was killed, setting off joyous celebrations across Libya. British-born Canadian actor John Neville, who’d appeared in the TV series “The X-Files,” died in Toronto at age 86. One year ago: Actor Rex Reason, 86, died in Walnut, California. Today’s Birthdays: Talk show host Larry King is 83. Former General Electric chief executive Jack Welch is 81. Talk show host Dick Cavett is 80. Broadcasting and sports mogul Ted Turner is 78. Singer Pete Moore (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) is 77. Former Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, is 77. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson is 75. Fashion designer Calvin Klein is 74. Sportscaster Ahmad Rashad is 67. Actor Robert Beltran is 63. Actress Kathleen Quinlan is 62. Actress Glynnis O’Connor is 61. Broadcast journalist Ann Curry is 60. Former NASA astronaut Eileen Collins is 60. Actress Allison Janney is 57. Rock musician Matt Sorum (Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver) is 56. Actress Meg Ryan is 55. Actress-director Jodie Foster is 54. Actress Terry Farrell is 53. TV chef Rocco DiSpirito is 50. Actor Jason Scott Lee is 50. Olympic gold medal runner Gail Devers is 50. Actress Erika Alexander is 47. Rock musician Travis McNabb is 47. Singer Tony Rich is 45. Actress Sandrine Holt is 44. Country singer Jason Albert (Heartland) is 43. Country singer Billy Currington is 43. Dancer-choreographer Savion Glover is 43. Country musician Chad Jeffers is 41. Rhythm-andblues singer Tamika Scott (Xscape) is 41. Rhythm-and-blues singer Lil’ Mo is 39. Olympic gold medal gymnast Kerri Strug is 39. Actor Reid Scott is 39. Actress Katherine Kelly is 37. Neo-soul musician Browan Lollar is 34. Actor Adam Driver is 33. Country singer Cam is 32. Rapper Tyga is 27. Thought for Today: “The facts are always less than what really happened.” — Nadine Gordimer, South African Nobel Prize-winning author (1923-2014).
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6 1 Rock wall climbing. 4—5:30 p.m. LBV-Inner City Branch Library, 202 W. Plum St. Take the challenge and climb the rock wall! Fun exercise for all ages. Free. Bring ID. Must sign release form. Every Tuesday. For more information, call 795-2400 x2520. 1 LEGO Workshop. Every Tuesday, 4—5 p.m. Santa Rita Express Library, 83 Prada Machin Drive, on the corner of Malaga Drive and Castro Urdiales Avenue. Create with LEGOs, DUPLOs and robotics.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12 1 Movie and Popcorn. Every Monday, 4—5 p.m. Santa Rita Express Library, 83 Prada Machin Drive, on the corner of Malaga Drive and Castro Urdiales Avenue. Enjoy a family movie and refreshments.
AROUND TEXAS Unemployment for October down slightly to 4.7 percent AUSTIN — Texas added about 13,700 jobs in October as the state unemployment rate dipped to 4.7 percent, the Texas Workforce Commission reported Friday. The adjusted unemployment rate is down slightly from the 4.8 percent recorded in September, the
CONTACT US commission said in a release. The national unemployment rate for October was 4.9 percent. The Austin metro region and the Amarillo-Lubbock area had the lowest unemployment rate in the state at 3.2 percent, commission officials said, while the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission area had the highest rate at 6.7 percent. “Texas employers continue to demonstrate the resiliency of the Texas economy with 207,500 jobs added over the past year,” commission Chairman Andres Alcantar
said. The transportation and utility field led the way in private industry employment growth with 8,200 additional jobs in October. Also recording growth was the financial services sector with some 4,400 jobs. Manufacturing, meanwhile, expanded by an estimated 2,000 jobs. “Private-sector employment has been strong over the year with an overall job growth of 162,700,” Commissioner Ruth R. Hughs said. — Compiled from AP reports
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DALLAS — A Texas judge on Friday ruled that a man is mentally competent enough to be executed next month for fatally shooting his two young daughters more than 15 years ago while their mother listened helplessly over the phone. State District Judge Robert Burns made the determination about 61-year-old John David Battaglia after a two-day hearing that concluded earlier this week. The U.S. Supreme Court has declared that a prisoner can be executed if he or she is aware that the death penalty is set to be carried out and has a rational understanding of why he or she is facing that punishment. Three psychologists testified that Battaglia, a former accountant, doesn’t understand why he is scheduled to die. A fourth said Battaglia is faking his delusions. Battaglia was due to be executed March 30, but a federal appeals court halted it so that his competency could be reviewed. Battaglia was convicted of killing his daughters, ages 6 and 9, at his Dallas apartment in May 2001. Authorities said he killed the girls to get back at his ex-wife, who was their mother, for lodging complaints with his parole officer that led to a warrant for his arrest.
Famed Texas heart surgeon Denton Cooley died at 96 By Juan A. Lozano ASSOCIATED PRE SS
HOUSTON — Dr. Denton Cooley, the cardiovascular surgeon who performed some of the nation’s first heart transplants and implanted the world’s first artificial heart, died Friday. He was 96. A leading practitioner of the coronary bypass operation, Cooley contributed to the development of techniques to repair and replace diseased heart valves and was renowned for operations to correct congenital heart problems in infants and children. He performed the first successful human heart transplant in the U.S. in 1968 and implanted the world’s first artificial heart in 1969 as a temporary measure while a heart transplant was arranged. Cooley died at his Houston home surrounded by family, said Jenn Jacome, a spokeswoman for Texas Children’s Hospital, where he had worked earlier in his career. Linden Emerson, a spokeswoman for the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, which Cooley founded, also confirmed Cooley’s death. Cooley had continued to work despite declining health over the last year and was at his office at the Texas Heart Institute as recently as Monday, Jacome said. “The heart is truly a remarkable organ,” Cooley said in 1989, “and developing a perfect substitute is going to be a challenge not only for this generation, but for gener-
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In this Feb. 9, 1999 file photo, Dr. Denton Cooley, poses next to a display at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston. Cooley, a Texas surgeon who performed some of the earliest heart transplants and implanted the world's first artificial heart in 1969, has died. Cooley died on Friday at the age of 96.
ations of researchers to come.” He also pioneered techniques for the repair of aneurysms of the aorta. He had a longtime feud with fellow Texan Dr. Michael DeBakey that ended only a year before DeBakey died in 2008, at age 99. Both doctors pioneered key techniques to help heart patients. They both earned national and international reputations, too, making headlines and attracting rich and famous patients. Cooley was born in 1920, the son of a wealthy Houston dentist. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1941 and earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1944. “Denton’s pioneering contributions to medicine are, of course, legend,”
former President George H. W. Bush, who lives in Houston, said in a statement. The same year he earned his medical degree, Cooley assisted Dr. Alfred Blalock in the first “blue baby” operation to correct an infant’s congenital heart defect, which helped pave the way for modern heart surgery. In 1951, Cooley joined Baylor College of Medicine at Houston’s Methodist Hospital, where he was appointed a surgical instructor under DeBakey. Cooley moved to Texas Children’s Hospital in the mid-1950s where he began a series of heart operations on children. He founded the Texas Heart Institute as part of St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in 1962, when he and DeBakey made a formal
split. Over the years, Cooley’s institute research team became widely recognized for the development and testing of heart assist devices for patients awaiting transplants. In May 1968, Cooley sewed the heart of a 15year-old into Everett Thomas, a 47-year-old accountant from Phoenix. Thomas later received a second transplant, and he lived about seven months — making him the first U.S. heart transplant recipient to be well enough to go home from the hospital. In April 1969, Cooley implanted the world’s first artificial heart into 47-year-old Haskell Karp as a temporary measure while a transplant was arranged. Karp lived 65 hours until the transplant was performed, but died
of pneumonia a day and a half later. The operation widened the rift with DeBakey, who alleged that Cooley took the heart used in Karp from his laboratory. Cooley and DeBakey publicly made amends in 2007, when Cooley presented DeBakey with a lifetime achievement award. When DeBakey died, Cooley said, “There is no question that he was one of the pioneers of cardiovascular surgery in the last half of the 20th century.” Among his honors, Cooley received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, from President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Cooley is survived by his four daughters. His wife, Louise, died in October. A fifth daughter died in 1985.
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The Medicare Killers By Paul Krugman TH E N EW YORK T IME S NEWS
During the campaign, Donald Trump often promised to be a different kind of Republican, one who would represent the interests of working-class voters who depend on major government programs. “I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” he declared, under the headline “Why Donald Trump Won’t Touch Your Entitlements.” It was, of course, a lie. The transition team’s point man on Social Security is a longtime advocate of privatization, and all indications are that the incoming administration is getting ready to kill Medicare, replacing it with vouchers that can be applied to the purchase of private insurance. Oh, and it’s also likely to raise the age of Medicare eligibility. So it’s important not to let this bait-and-switch happen before the public realizes what’s going on. Three points in particular need to be made as loudly as possible. First, the attack on Medicare will be one of the most blatant violations of a campaign promise in history. Some readers may recall George W. Bush’s attempt to privatize Social Security, in which he claimed a “mandate” from voters despite having run a campaign entirely focused on other issues. That was bad, but this is much worse — and not just because Trump lost the popular vote by a significant margin, making any claim of a mandate bizarre. Candidate Trump ran on exactly the opposite position from the one President-elect Trump seems to be embracing, claiming to be an economic populist defending the (white) working class. Now he’s going to destroy a program that is crucial to that class? Which brings me to the second point: While Medicare is an essential program for a great majority of Americans, it’s especially important for the white working-class voters who supported Trump most strongly. Partly that’s because Medicare beneficiaries are considerably whiter than the country as a whole, precisely because they’re older and reflect the demography of an earlier era. Beyond that, think of what would happen if Medicare didn’t exist. Some older Americans would probably be able to retain health coverage by staying at jobs that come with such coverage. But this option would by and large be available only to those with extensive education: Labor force participation among seniors is strongly correlated with education, in part because the highly educated are healthier than the less
educated, and in part because their jobs require less physical effort. Working-class seniors would be left stranded, unable to get the health care they needed. Still, doesn’t something have to be done about Medicare? No — which is my third point. People like Speaker Paul Ryan, have often managed to bamboozle the media into believing that their efforts to dismantle Medicare and other programs are driven by valid economic concerns. They aren’t. It has been obvious for a long time that Medicare is actually more efficient than private insurance, mainly because it doesn’t spend large sums on overhead and marketing, and, of course, it needn’t make room for profits. What’s not widely known is that the costsaving measures included in the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, have been remarkably successful in their efforts to “bend the curve” — to rein in the long-term rise in Medicare expenses. In fact, since 2010 Medicare outlays per beneficiary have risen only 1.4 percent a year, less than the inflation rate. This success is one main reason longterm budget projections have dramatically improved. So why try to destroy this successful program, which is in important respects doing better than ever? The main answer, from the point of view of people like Ryan, is probably that Medicare is in the cross hairs precisely because of its success: It would be very helpful for opponents of government to do away with a program that clearly demonstrates the power of government to improve people’s lives. And there’s an additional benefit to the right from Medicare privatization: It would create a lot of opportunities for private profits, earned by diverting dollars that could have been used to provide health care. In summary, then, privatizing Medicare would betray a central promise of the Trump campaign, would specifically betray the interests of the voter bloc that thought it had found a champion, and would be terrible policy. You might think this would make the whole idea a non-starter. And this push will, in fact, fail — just like Social Security privatization in 2005 — if voters realize what’s happening. What’s crucial now is to make sure that voters do, in fact, realize what’s going on. And this isn’t just a job for politicians. It’s also a chance for the news media, which failed so badly during the campaign, to start doing its job. Paul Kurgman is a columnist for The New York Times.
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A 4-year survival guide for Democrats By Michael A. Lindenberger THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
We are fools to believe that human history is a record of forward motion, but fools most of us are. Nov. 8 brought it home for me that sometimes history is slammed into reverse. But enough with the denial, Democrats. You lost. I lost. And now all the world is going to endure the consequences. What you need now is a strategy. Here is one in five easy pieces. 1. Get your heads out of the sand. No, the Electoral College is not going to reverse the outcome of the election. No, you can’t impeach the presidentelect. And the protests? It’s not for me to tell anyone they don’t have the right or even the obligation - to be in the streets singing their song of America. There is power in protest; it gathers energy that can be channeled all the way up the system and into the corridors of power. Democrats in Congress are going to need all the power they can get. But they can also be distractions, and a reluctance to get about the hard work of preserving the values they are marching for. Already, the message #NotMyPresident has grown stale, even offensive. You’re part of America, and America needs you. Like it or not, this country’s next president is going to be Donald Trump. Deal with it. Want a suggestion? Ask every person marching in the protest ahead of you and behind you whether they’re registered to vote. If not, take them to be registered. Right now. You don’t vote, you don’t matter not in the way that we need you to. 2. Admit that Trump is right. On some issues, he
is. Just like Bernie Sanders before him, he has targeted something real in the nation, a cancer that will eat its prosperity and its civic prospects. A rich country can’t stay that way if too many of its citizens are poor. That’s a truism as old as the Bastille and long before that. Especially in democracies, disorder has ever sprung from the seeds of poverty, and usually just as things are starting to get better. Trump and Sanders both seized on that resentment to build a political movement. Trump took his appeal to places Sanders, to his everlasting honor, simply would not go. To Sanders, no votes were worth sowing seeds of racial animosity, religious bigotry or blunt nationalism. But they both saw something was broken in America. But the system failed. And President Obama’s efforts to rectify it fell short of expectations among the people whose livelihoods were slow to recover, many of them already pushed and pummeled by globalization long before 2009. Trump got that. He used it. And it’s one reason why he is headed to the White House, and Hillary Clinton has gone home. Trump has also made reasonable proposals, even promising ones, on a wide range of issues that Democrats ought to greet with relief. He’s likely to back massive spending on infrastructure in this country. As he says, he knows construction. Let’s hope he does, and if the proposal is a good one, Democrats should jump on it like a drowning man hanging onto the last raft in sight. 3. Refuse to fall into the trap of fighting for the "white working class." America doesn’t have a white working class. It has a working
class that includes black, brown, white and every hue and creed and race imaginable. Democrats have always championed workers in this country, and to the extent that the party has in recent years overlooked that part of its identity, it’s time to rectify it. But it’s worth emphasizing that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, a fact that is important even if it isn’t legally relevant. Among her voters? Millions of workers, many of color, who responded to her message over Trump’s promises. Sure, Trump’s appeal was custom-made for whites, and that paid dividends for his campaign. But that’s a sign of his party’s weakness, not strength. Rust-belt whites facing declining financial prospects are no different in economic terms than blacks in Detroit wondering where their jobs went, or Latinos in Dallas wondering how a city so rich can offer so few jobs that can lift them out of poverty. That’s something Sanders understood. And Clinton, too. The working class knows no color divide, neither does hunger, want or hope. 4. Find your allies. Face it, Democrats. You’re a minority party. In places like Texas, that’s nothing new. But you’re a minority party just about everywhere you go in this country. It’s a real question whether Democrats have ever been so weak in Washington as they are right now. So as satisfying as it may be, a strategy of all-out obstructionism isn’t going to work, not with these numbers. The good news is that Trump has cobbled together a coalition of factions so unlike one another they won’t stand united. There will be
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conservative Republicans who turn on Trump, maybe not completely, but on this piece of legislation and that piece. Democrats must seek these senators and congressmen out, and make them allies. Strange bedfellows? Surely. But just as they can’t afford to ignore good ideas from Trump, they mustn’t refuse to work with Republicans whenever they can. That was the great shame of the GOP under Obama. They simply would not work with the president. 5. Fight like hell. How bad will Trump-era policies be? Pretty bad. And when the worst of the worst head to the Hill, Democrats will need to fight like badgers. There will be times when peaceful but passionate protesters are needed in the streets. When Democratic attorneys generals will need to file suit. When senators and congressmen will need to stand in the hallway and stop what they can. But that’s going to require judgment on the part of the opposition. Will they fight to keep a wall from rising? Probably not. From his filling the vacancy on the Supreme Court? Not likely, unless he nominates a total extremist - certainly a possibility. But someone better be ready to grapple with the majority, should our next president seek to create a vast army of immigration police to round up 11 million undocumented residents. Or to begin requiring citizens of one faith or another to register. To take up where the Supreme Court left off with the Voting Rights Act and roll back still more Civil Rights era protections. To weaken free speech or the free press? Michael A. Lindenberger is a columnist for the Dallas Morning News.
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Democrat’s lead widens in North Carolina governor’s race By Gary D. Robertson A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
RALEIGH, N.C. — Hardly anyone in North Carolina is willing to guess when their excruciatingly close governor’s race will be resolved. A Friday deadline came and went with Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper’s unofficial advantage growing to about 6,600 votes over Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, from nearly 4.7 million cast. McCrory is fighting for his political life in a battleground state that Donald Trump and Republican Sen. Richard Burr won by relatively comfortable margins. After endless legal battles over how, when and where people can vote, they’re fighting now over whether to count 60,000 provisional ballots and thousands more absentee ballots that have remained sealed since Election Day. Still more delays are in store as McCrory’s campaign supports allegations of hard-knuckled fraud lodged by voters in more than half the state’s 100 counties. If Cooper’s margin remains below 10,000 votes, McCrory can call for a statewide recount, and with the possibility of other legal challenges and conceivably even legislative intervention to decide a contested result, few outside Cooper’s campaign are ready to put a date on the naming of the next governor. “This is unprecedented,” said Brad Crone, a longtime Democratic consultant and North Carolina history buff. “This is new waters that we’re sailing into.” The two Republicans and one Democrat on each county’s elections board have been meeting this week deciding whether to toss out or unseal and count each of the remaining ballots. The largest challenge was unanimously dismissed Friday by the board in heavily Democratic Durham County, where a handful of computer cards got overloaded with ballots cast by early voters, forcing officials to hand-count 94,000 votes from the paper record. A Republican lawyer questioned the tally’s accuracy, but the board’s Republican chairman, William Brian Jr., said all evidence points to a true count. The state also must comply with a federal judge’s order to count the votes of people who said they registered since last year at Division of Motor Vehicles offices, even though their names didn’t appear on the voting rolls, unless the agency can prove they declared in writing that they did not want to register. The DMV said Friday that it has delivered information connected to about 8,100 driver’s license numbers. The information will be used to decide whether ballots should be counted or thrown out. McCrory, a former Charlotte mayor, won his first race for governor by more than 500,000 votes four years ago, but he’s been pilloried by Democrats and urban voters for signing a law that limits LGBT rights and tells transgender people which bathrooms to use. The state’s electorate also witnessed McCrory’s defense of the GOP’s 2013 law that required voters to have photo identification to vote in person, reduced the number of
days of early voting Democrats favor and eliminated same-day McCrory registration for early voters. The law was struck down in July by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. McCrory’s campaign said, without offering detailed proof, that the fraud being challenged in more than 50 counties includes people voting more than once and ballots cast by dead people and convicted felons. And in rural Bladen County, a winning candidate claimed hundreds of mail-in ballots were forged by get-out-the-vote workers for an organization that received contributions from Democrats. The Bladen challenge, however, doesn’t involve enough votes by itself to decide the governor’s race. McCrory has said little about the race since election night, when he told Republicans “the election is not over” and said “we’re going to make sure every vote counts in North Carolina.” Instead, he’s held news conferences on wildfires in North Carolina’s western mountains and attended a meeting Friday on the recovery after Hurricane Matthew. McCrory’s campaign was significantly outspent, but he benefited from his frequent television appearances discussing the hurricane’s destruction. Cooper declared himself the winner on election night but has kept a low profile since then, but his staff and legal team said McCrory’s fraud allegations are a sign of desperation. “Voters chose a new governor; it’s time for the McCrory campaign to accept it,” said Cooper’s campaign spokesman Ford Porter, who didn’t respond to the AP’s request to speak with Cooper on Friday. McCrory’s campaign also declined an interview, offering instead his top campaign strategist, Chris LaCivita, who defended the campaign’s effort to challenge any irregularities. “You just can’t this dream this up,” LaCivita said. “Of course, we’re going to pursue challenges and pursue leads.” Marc Elias, a Washington-based attorney helping Cooper’s campaign, said the number of allegedly fraudulent ballots McCrory’s side has challenged isn’t enough to change the lead, even if they were thrown out, so it’s just a matter of time before Cooper’s victory is confirmed. “There is nothing that Gov. McCrory or his legal team will be able to do to undo what is just basic math,” Elias told reporters on Friday. “The fact is, more North Carolinians voted for Roy Cooper than voted for Pat McCrory, and did so by a close but a significant margin.” McCrory campaign spokesman Ricky Diaz countered that Cooper’s side is making “presumptuous statements” at a time when counties have postponed their final tabulations. Cooper is relying on “piecemeal results from a handful of Democratleaning counties in order to deflect attention away from serious voter fraud concerns that are emerging across the state,” Diaz said in a statement.
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An oil transit pipeline runs across the tundra to flow station at the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska's North Slope.
Obama blocks new oil, gas drilling in Arctic Ocean By Matthew Daly ASSOCIATED PRE SS
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is blocking new oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean, handing a victory to environmentalists who say industrial activity in the icy waters will harm whales, walruses and other wildlife and exacerbate global warming. A five-year offshore drilling plan announced on Friday blocks the planned sale of new oil and gas drilling rights in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas north of Alaska. The plan allows drilling to go forward in Alaska’s Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage. The blueprint for drilling from 2017 to 2022 can be rewritten by President-elect Donald Trump, in a process that could take months or years. Besides Cook Inlet, the plan also allows drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, long the center of U.S. offshore oil production. Ten of the 11 lease sales proposed in the five-year plan are in the Gulf, mostly off the coasts of Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Alabama. Confirming a decision announced this spring, the five-year plan also bars drilling in the Atlantic Ocean. “The plan focuses lease sales in the best places those with the highest resource potential, lowest conflict and established infrastructure - and removes regions that are simply not right to lease,” said Interior Secretary Sally Jewell.
“Given the unique and challenging Arctic environment and industry’s declining interest in the area, forgoing lease sales in the Arctic is the right path forward,” Jewell said. The decision follows an announcement last year by Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the only company in the last decade to drill in federal waters, that it would cease exploration in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas after spending upward of $7 billion. The company cited disappointing results from a well drilled in the Chukchi and the unpredictable federal regulatory environment. Despite that, industry representatives reacted bitterly to the latest announcement, calling the decision political and not supported by the facts. “The arrogance of the decision is unfathomable, but unfortunately not surprising,” said Randall Luthi, president of the National Ocean Industries Association, an industry group. “Once again, we see the attitude that Washington knows best — an attitude that contributed to last week’s election results,” Luthi said, referring to Trump’s victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton. More than 70 percent of Alaskans, including a majority of Alaska Natives, support offshore drilling, Luthi said. The state’s three Republican members of Congress also blasted the decision. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said she was
“infuriated” that Obama “has once again ignored our voices to side with the factions who oppose” offshore drilling in Alaska. “Arctic development is one of the best ways to create jobs, generate revenues and refill the TransAlaska Pipeline,” said Murkowski, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “Why the president is willing to send all of those benefits overseas is beyond explanation.” As he prepares to leave office in two months, Obama has worked to build an environmental legacy that includes a global agreement to curb climate change and an ambitious plan to reduce carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants. He also has imposed stricter limits on smogcausing pollution linked to asthma and rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. All of those accomplishments and others are at risk from Trump’s presidency. Trump loathes regulation and wants to increase oil and gas drilling and the use of coal. Trump has said he believes climate change is a hoax and has vowed to “cancel” U.S. involvement in the landmark Paris Agreement on global warming. While he has been vague about precise policies, Trump is likely to seek to weaken or kill the Clean Power Plan, a cornerstone Obama policy meant to reduce carbon pollution from the nation’s power plants as
part of an effort to combat climate change The decision to block Arctic drilling follows a decision this spring to block drilling in the Atlantic. Republican governors in North and South Carolina back drilling off their states’ coasts, as does the Democratic governor of Virginia. The state’s two Democratic senators also support drilling. Jacqueline Savitz, senior vice president of Oceana, an environmental group, hailed the Arctic announcement and praised Obama and Jewell for “protecting our coasts from dirty and dangerous offshore drilling.” Rejection of drilling in the Artic and Atlantic “demonstrates a commitment to prioritizing common sense, economics and science ahead of industry favoritism and politics as usual,” Savitz said. Nearly 400 scientists signed a letter this summer urging Obama to eliminate the possibility of Arctic offshore drilling. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, said the Obama administration was “once again capitulating to the demands of extreme environmental groups over Alaskans and their fellow Americans who want good-paying jobs, energy independence and a strong economy.” “For nearly eight years this administration has given lip service to an ‘all of the above energy strategy,’ when their actions say the opposite,” Sullivan said.
Minnesota officer released after hearing in Castile shooting By Amy Forliti ASSOCIATED PRE SS
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Minnesota police officer who shot and killed Philando Castile during a July traffic stop will be allowed to remain free as a manslaughter case against him proceeds, a judge ruled during a brief court hearing Friday. St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez was released on his own recognizance after an initial court hearing. Yanez was charged this week with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Castile, a 32-year-old black man who was shot during a July 6 traffic stop in the St. Paul suburb of Falcon Heights after he told Yanez, who is Latino, he had a gun and a license to carry. Castile’s girlfriend streamed his final gruesome moments live on Facebook. On Wednesday, prosecutors said Yanez acted unreasonably and was not justified in using deadly force.
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Defense attorneys Earl Gray, left, and Tom Kelly, right, who represent St. Joseph police officer Jeronimo Yanez, leave the Ramsey County district court Friday in St. Paul, Minn.
Yanez did not enter a plea Friday, which is standard during initial court appearances, but one of his attorneys, Tom Kelly, said Yanez intends to plead not guilty. His next hearing is set for Dec. 19. Kelly said Yanez’s defense team is disappointed in the charges and concerned by Ramsey County Attorney John Choi’s statements that no reasonable officer would have acted as Yanez did. “We find those comments to be unnecessary beyond the scope of the criminal complaint and unfairly prejudicial,” Kelly said. When asked if de-
fense attorneys would seek to move the case to another jurisdiction, he said it was too early to tell. Yanez, 28, had been with the St. Anthony Police Department for four years. Kelly declined to discuss the facts of the case, saying the matter should now be resolved through the judicial process. He said the situation has been stressful but Yanez is “a very strong individual with a good moral compass and he’s holding up.” Supporters of Yanez attended the hearing. Some of Castile’s family members also were in the
courtroom. Nakia Wilson said she attended the hearing because she wanted to see the face of the person who killed her cousin. She said she was nervous and sad, and had difficulty describing how she felt after seeing Yanez. “I just want justice served for my cousin,” she said. Tyrone Terrill, president of the African American Leadership Council, a community group in St. Paul, said Castile’s death was senseless. “We were out there 30 minutes after he was shot. And to see the mental anguish and pain in our community — I’ve seen grown men crying like I’ve never ever seen before,” he said. “To see the pain — and for no reason.” Terrill, who also attended the hearing, commended prosecutors for bringing charges and said he wants to see Yanez behind bars. “He did not value Philando’s humanity,” Terrill said.
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RIBEREÑA EN BREVE COMPETENCIA DE CARNE ASADA 1 La Comisión de Parques y Recreación de Roma invita a su 3a. Competencia Anual de Carne Asada, el 19 de noviembre en Guadalupe Plaza. Habrá diferentes categorías que incluyen: guisado, fajitas, costillas y pavo entre otros. Registre a su equipo en Roma City Hall ubicado en 77 Convent St.. Mayores informes llamando al 956-849-1411. VACACIONES ESCOLARES 1 Debido a las festividades de Acción de Gracias, el distrito escolar Zapata County Independent School District anuncia que las vacaciones por esta festividad iniciarán el lunes 21 para concluir el 25 de noviembre. Las clases reiniciarán el lunes 28 de noviembre. GLOBOS AEROSTÁTICOS EN L.I.F.E. GROUNDS 1 Del 2-4 de diciembre habrá vuelos en globos aerostáticos, comida, artesanías, musica, show de globos y más. En L.I.F.E. Grounds, ubicada E. HWY 59 de 4 p.m. a 12 a.m. DECORACIÓN DE ÁRBOLES NAVIDEÑOS 1 El Museo de Historia del Condado de Zapata está invitando a la comunidad a participar en el concurso de decoración de árboles navideños que se llevará a cabo el 11 de diciembre de 1 p.m. a 5 p.m., en las instalaciones del museo, ubicado en 805 N. Main St. Mayores informes al 956-765-8983. CURSOS DE LENGUAJE DE SIGNOS (ASL) 1 El Departamento de Educación Especial local está ofreciendo clases de Lenguaje Americano de Signos para el personal profesional y paraprofesional así como para padres, estudiantes o administradores del distrito Zapata County Independent School District, todos los jueves desde el 20 de octubre al 15 de diciembre. Mayores informes al 956285-6877 o a la Oficina de Educación Especial al 956-7566130 antes del 13 de octubre.
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Arrestan a agente Acusación incluye cargos de acoso e intimidación Por César G. Rodríguez TIEMP O DE ZAPATA
Un agente supervisor de la Patrulla Fronteriza asignado a la Estación Zapata fue arrestado esta semana acusado de acoso, intimidación e incluso de ocasionar que un agente temiera por su vida, de acuerdo a documentos judiciales. El sospechoso, Rudy López, de 44 años de edad, se entregó en la Oficina del Alguacil del Condado de Zapata para ser servido con una orden de arresto el lunes, pero salió bajo fianza más tarde ese mismo día. López fue acusado de dos cargos de acoso. La Patrulla Fronteriza emitió una declaración acerca del arresto de un miembro de su organización. “La Patrulla Fronteriza enfatiza el honor y la integridad en cada aspecto de nuestra misión, y la gran mayoría de los oficiales y agentes desempeñan sus funciones con honor y distinción, trabajando incansablemente todos los días para mantener a nuestro país seguro”, establece la declaración. “Cooperaremos con cualquier investigación criminal o administrativa de presunta mala conducta por cualquiera de nuestro personal, dentro o fuera de servicio”. El Consejo Nacional de
la Patrulla Fronteriza emitió un comunicado que menciona que esto “fue parte de una situación crónica que había sido reportada previamente a la cadena de mando en el sector Laredo”. Sin embargo, el consejo dijo que varios reclamos, así como prácticas laborales injustas y quejas presentadas en contra de López fueron “barridas debajo de la alfombra”. “López después presentaba quejas en contra de los agentes y representantes sindicales que habían presentado quejas, a través del Centro de Ingreso Conjunto de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza”. Los investigadores del Alguacil encontraron que altos directivos habían hablado con López previamente en varias ocasiones, pero López siguió acosando a varios agentes, de acuerdo a un acta juramentada. Acoso El 4 de noviembre, un representante sindical junto con dos agentes presentaron un reporte de acoso en contra de un supervisor, López, en la estación de la Patrulla Fronteriza. Un agente le dijo a la Oficina del Alguacil que temía por su vida en la Estación Zapata. López supuestamente lo miró
fijamente, se burló de él e intentó provocar contacto físico con él. “El acoso del supervisor López continuó incluso después que se le pidió que se detuviera muchas veces por altos mandos de la gerencia”, establece la denuncia. El agente consideró renunciar a su trabajo para evadir el acoso de parte de López. Además, López lo había avergonzado en su lugar de trabajo e intentó golpearlo con el hombro, establece la demanda. Los registros establecen que López supuestamente tenía patrones de comportamiento imprudente. El agente tenía miedo de que López provocara violencia física. López supuestamente trató de provocar al agente de una manera no profesional al confrontarlo y tratar de intimidarlo a diario. Otro agente dijo que comenzó a ser acosado por López unos cuantos meses después de haber sido asignado a la estación de Zapata. López había hecho su labor para asegurar de que el agente no hablara, de acuerdo con documentos de la corte. Cuando el agente confrontó a López sobre los “problemas”, López se habría sentido agraviado, indica la queja. Los registros no especifican cuáles eran los “problemas”.
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La alcaldesa de Miguel Alemán, México, Rosa Icela Corro Acosta (sentada), se reunió con autoridades de Roma, para discutir la rehabilitación del puente colgante existente entre estas dos ciudades fronterizas, el lunes, en el Departamento de Transporte dependiente del Distrito de Pharr.
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Miguel Alemán, México— Este lunes las autoridades de Roma, Texas y Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas, se reunieron en la Sala de Juntas del área de Roma en el Departamento de Transporte dependiente del Distrito Pharr, para tratar el tema de la rehabilitación del Puente Colgante existente entre estas dos ciudades. Los funcionarios trabajan en conjunto, para lograr con sus respectivos gobiernos, el anhelo fundamental de convertir el puente en un paso peatonal y turístico. La alcaldesa de Miguel Alemán, Rosa Icela Corro Acosta, acudió en compañía de funcionarios de primer nivel para seguir dándole el respectivo
seguimiento a este proyecto, en coordinación con las autoridades de Texas y Tamaulipas. “El tema principal es hacer un acercamiento entre ambas autoridades y buscar un enlace con el gobernador (de Tamaulipas) Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca y ver la manera de que se agilice la rehabilitación ya que éste es un proyecto presentado ante la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores”, especificó Corro Acosta. La Alcaldesa informó además, que se trabaja intensamente para que en febrero del 2017, al llevarse a cabo la reunión binacional en San Antonio Texas, se llegue a un acuerdo que conlleve a la realización de la rehabilitación del Puente de Suspensión Roma-Miguel Alemán.
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MUSEO EN ZAPATA 1 A los interesados en realizar una investigación sobre genealogía de la región, se sugiere visitar el Museo del Condado de Zapata ubicado en 805 N US-Hwy 83. Opera de 10 a.m. a 4 p.m. Existen visitas guiadas. Personal está capacitado y puede orientar acerca de la historia del Sur de Texas y sus fundadores. Informes en el 956-765-8983. LABORATORIO COMPUTACIONAL 1 La Ciudad de Roma pone a disposición de la comunidad el Laboratorio Computacional que abre de lunes a viernes en horario de 1 p.m. a 5 p.m. en Historical Plaza, a un lado del City Hall. Informes en el 956-849-1411.
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Los atletas de la preparatoria Zapata High School fueron retratados preparando los platillos de la cena Pediatric Thanksgiving Dinner en el Centro Comunitario el martes.
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Río Salado sale de cauce e inunda caserío Nota del editor: Esta serie de artículos sobre la historia de Ciudad Guerrero, México, fueron escritos por la guerrerense Lilia Treviño Martínez (1927-2016), quien fuera profesora de la escuela Leoncio Leal. Por Lilia Treviño Martínez TIEMP O DE ZAPATA
Fue en octubre de 1950 cuando los guerrerenses empezamos a admitir la realidad, despedirnos de nuestros recuerdos, guar-
dar las reliquias familiares en los viejos baúles y prepararnos para decir adiós al terruño. Aunque teníamos tres años para adaptarnos a la idea del cambio, aun no estábamos suficientemente preparados. Sorpresivamente, en el mes de agosto de 1953, fuertes lluvias se descargaron en toda la región y nuestro río Salado, rechazado por el Bravo que también recibía fuertes avenidas, salió de su cauce e invadió el caserío.
La construcción del moderno colegio construido por el gobierno estatal fue uno de los invadidos primeramente por las aguas. Ante la situación de emergencia, hubo necesidad de replegarnos al antiguo edificio para salvar al mobiliario y enseres propios de la institución. Primeramente, las familias que ya habían sido removidas a la parte alta de la ciudad, alojadas con familiares o amigos,
pues sus casas se hallaban ya semi-cubiertas por el agua. Los maestros organizamos nuestro traslado en forma progresiva, para seguir cumpliendo nuestro deber de atención a los niños, tanto a los que eran trasladados como a los que aún permanecían en la vieja ciudad. Juntamente con nuestros alumnos, íbamos despachando mobiliario y enseres que habíamos protegido en el viejo edificio, construido en su totali-
dad en las ultimas décadas del siglo XIX por voluntad y apoyo económico del filántropo guerrerense Dn. José María González Benavides, para la educación de la mujer. Me tocó en suerte ser la última maestra que abandonó el antiguo edificio de la vieja escuela. El día 7 de octubre giré por última vez la gran llave de hierro en la cerradura del vetusto portón de madera que servía de acceso.
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Bombings in Syria’s Aleppo hit hospital; 7 die in airstrike By Sarah El Deeb A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
BEIRUT — Intensive bombings pummeled Syria’s rebel-held eastern neighborhoods of the city of Aleppo on Friday, residents and rescuers said, hitting an area housing several hospitals and sending the chief of a pediatrics clinic in a frantic search for a place to move his young patients. Earlier Friday, airstrikes on a village in the rural Aleppo province killed seven members of the same family, including four children, opposition activists said. The attacks mark the fourth day of renewed assault by Syrian government warplanes on eastern Aleppo districts, a rebel-held enclave of 275,000 people. The onslaught began with a Russian announcement of its own offensive on the northern rebel-controlled
Idlib province and the central Homs province. So far, more than 100 people have been killed across northern Syria since Tuesday. A physician who identified himself as Dr. Hatem, the head of the only pediatric hospital remaining in besieged rebel-held part of Aleppo, said his facility in the al-Shaar neighborhood has been targeted once more on Friday, causing damages to its exterior. The hospital was also hit during a wave of airstrikes on the complex housing four hospitals on Wednesday. “Now it is being bombed ... I am sorry ... I have to go to transfer the children” to a safe area, he said in a text message. He uses his first name fearing for his family’s safety. Another Aleppo hospital in a different neighborhood across town also was bombed late on Thursday, he said. The
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Intensive bombings pummeled Syria's rebel-held eastern neighborhoods of the city of Aleppo on Friday, residents and rescuers said, hitting an area housing several hospitals and sending the chief of a pediatrics clinic in a frantic search for a place to move his young patients.
entrance was set on fire but no one was wounded. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that dozens of airstrikes, artillery and barrel bombs hit 18 different neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo. The Observatory said government bombings have targeted areas housing hospitals, including one with the children’s hospital and another nearby with one of the
few remaining intensive care units in eastern Aleppo. Many hospitals and clinics in the besieged area have moved their operations underground after months of relentless bombings and airstrikes. The World Health Organization said in 2016, it recorded 126 attacks on health facilities, a common tactic in the war in Syria. Russia and the Syrian
government deny targeting hospitals in airstrikes. The city of Aleppo, once Syria’s commercial hub, has been divided since 2012, with the eastern half in rebel hands and the western half controlled by government forces. Ibrahim al-Haj, a member of the Syria Civil Defense rescuers in Aleppo said the city “is a mess.” The group of rescuers and first responders said they were struggling to put out
fires set off by the bombings in at least 10 different areas of eastern Aleppo. The Observatory said at least three people were killed in the attacks on the city’s districts. The Observatory also said the strike that killed the seven from one family took place in southwestern Aleppo. Syrian Civil Defense posted photographs online showing children’s bodies covered with dust and blood.
Putin says Russia works to develop new weapons By Vladimir Isachenkov A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
MOSCOW — Russia is working to develop new weapons to ensure a global strategic balance, President Vladimir Putin said Friday. Putin, speaking to top military leaders at his residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, said that
Russia, like other nations, is working on state-of-the art arms technologies, including laser, hypersonic and robotic weapons. Special attention is given to the development of so-called weapons on new physical principles that allow selective, pinpoint impact on critically important elements of the enemy weapons and infrastructure facilities,”
Putin said at a meeting, which wrapped up a weeklong series of consultations on military modernization and arms industries. He didn’t mention specific weapons programs, but military officials have said Russia is developing new warheads for its ballistic missiles, which would be capable of making sharp maneu-
vers on their way to the target to dodge enemy defenses. The military also has been working on air-based laser weapons. The Kremlin continued a sweeping military modernization drive even as Russia’s economy entered a recession. “We will do all necessary to ensure a strategic balance,” Putin said. “We believe that attempts to
upset it are extremely dangerous. The strategic balance, which took shape in the late 1940s and the 1950s, has allowed the world to avoid large-scale military conflicts.” Russia’s relations with the United States and its allies have plunged to their lowest point since Cold War times amid the Ukrainian crisis and
tensions over Syria. Without naming the United States, Putin vowed to fend off threats posed by NATO’s U.S.-led missile defense system and the U.S. efforts to develop Prompt Global Strike — prospective weapons systems that would be capable of delivering a precision strike anywhere in the world within one hour.
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BUSINESS
Trump agrees to Drugmaker losses pull stocks $25M settlement lower; small-cap surge goes on to resolve Trump U lawsuits By Marley Jay
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By David Klepper and Elliot Spagat A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
SAN DIEGO — President-elect Donald Trump agreed Friday to pay $25 million to settle several lawsuits against his nowdefunct school for real estate investors, averting a trial in a potentially embarrassing case that he had vowed during the campaign to keep fighting. If approved by a judge, the deal announced by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman would lay to rest allegations that Trump University defrauded students who paid up to $35,000 to enroll in programs that promised to share Trump’s secrets of the real estate industry. The deal would settle a lawsuit Schneiderman filed three years ago and two class-action lawsuits filed in California on behalf of former students. The complaints accused the program of misleading students by calling itself a university when it was not an accredited school and by saying that Trump “hand-picked” instructors. Trump has denied the allegations and repeatedly said he would not settle. He told supporters at a May rally that he would come to San Diego to testify after winning the presidency. “I could have settled this case numerous times, but I don’t want to settle cases when we’re right. I don’t believe in it. And when you start settling cases, you know what happens? Everybody sues you because you get known as a settler. One thing about me, I am not known as a settler,” Trump said at the time. The deal does not require Trump to acknowledge wrongdoing. In a statement, Trump’s attorneys said they had “no doubt” that Trump University would have prevailed in a trial, but “resolution of these matters allows Presidentelect Trump to devote his full attention to the important issues facing our great nation.” Schneiderman said the $25 million to be paid by Trump or one of his business entities includes restitution for victims
and $1 million in penalties to the state. Trump “fought us every step of the way, filing baseless charges and fruitless appeals and refusing to settle for even modest amounts of compensation for the victims of his phony university. Today, that all changes,” Schneiderman said in a statement. He called the settlement “a stunning reversal by Donald Trump and a major victory for the over 6,000 victims of his fraudulent university.” Plaintiffs’ attorney Jason Forge says all 6,000 people in the class-action case will get at least half their money back, and some receive a full refund. Forge said he “definitely detected a change of tone and change of approach” from Trump’s camp after the election. The Trump Organization is a party to numerous lawsuits that threaten to prove a distraction in his administration. The settlement comes a day after watchdog groups and ethics experts who served in both Republican and Democratic administrations sent a letter to Trump urging him to make a clean break from his business to avoid “embroiling the presidency in litigation.” One of the authors, Richard Painter, an ethics lawyer at the White House under George W. Bush , said he thinks the Trump University settlement might backfire if lawyers think Trump is eager to settle to avoid court cases while president. “The plaintiffs’ lawyers are going to smell blood in the water,” he said. Trump’s attorneys said in a court filing last week that preparations for the White House were “critical and all-consuming.” Six months ago, when they unsuccessfully sought a delay until after Inauguration Day, lead attorney Daniel Petrocelli said the period between the election and swearing-in is hectic for a president-elect but that it was preferable to a trial during the campaign. Trump’s attorneys also raised the prospect of having the president-elect testify by video recording before the trial begins in the class-action lawsuit on Nov. 28.
NEW YORK — Major U.S. stock indexes slipped Friday as drug companies dragged the market lower. Small-company stocks bucked the downward trend and continued to climb, and bond yields rose to their highest level in a year. Drugmakers like Merck and biotech company Amgen took some of the biggest losses Friday. Weak results from Gap and Abercrombie & Fitch hurt retailers as investors kept a close eye on the upcoming holiday season. Small companies including regional banks continued to make large gains. Those stocks have risen sharply since the presidential election last week and are now at record highs. “Some of the proposals that (President-elect Donald) Trump has promoted, specifically deregulation and also some of his trade proposals, are better for small companies than potentially they are for large ones,” said Katie Nixon, chief investment
officer for Northern Trust. The Dow Jones industrial average slid 35.89 points, or 0.2 percent, to 18,867.93. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index lost 5.22 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,181.90. The Nasdaq composite touched a record high early on, but turned lower and gave up 12.46 points, or 0.2 percent, to 5,321.51. That’s not a big loss, but the major indexes hadn’t fallen that much since before the presidential election. Still, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq finished substantially higher this week after their big gains the week before. But indexes of smaller companies, like the Russell 2000 and the S&P 600, did better. They are on 11-day winning streaks and have hit alltime highs. Among small-company stocks, mortgage lending service company LendingTree added $6.80, or 7.3 percent, to $100 and coal miner Cloud Peak Energy rose 79 cents, or 15.8 percent, to $5.79. Losses for drug companies weighed down health care stocks. Botox maker
Allergan retreated $8.20, or 4.1 percent, to $191.78 and biotech giant Amgen fell $2.13, or 1.4 percent, to $145.23. Hepatitis C drugmaker Gilead Sciences shed 96 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $74.62. Drug company stocks are coming off their biggest weekly gain in two years. The stocks had been falling in the months leading up to the election because investors worried that under a Hillary Clinton presidency, the federal government would take steps to rein in drug prices. Those kinds of steps are less likely under a Trump presidency and a Republican-controlled Congress. The dollar continued to climb. It’s near one-year highs against the euro and six-month highs against the yen. The dollar rose to 110.63 yen from 109.89 yen. The euro fell to $1.0599 from $1.0626. The dollar hasn’t been this strong since early 2003. Nixon of Northern Trust said that’s affecting big multinational companies because it can hurt their sales outside the U.S., but it’s less of a prob-
lem for smaller, domestically-oriented companies. Investors continued to sell U.S. government bonds at a rapid clip, and bond prices wobbled and turned lower. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.34 percent from 2.30 percent. Bond prices have fallen hard since the election and yields are now at their highest in a year. Teen clothing company Abercrombie & Fitch plunged $2.33, or 13.8 percent, to $14.60 after it reported weak sales and a smaller profit than analysts had expected. Gap’s said fewer people visited its stores heading into the holiday season. Its stock gave up $5.10, or 16.6 percent, to $25.61. Sporting goods Hibbett Sports retailer cut its annual forecasts after a weak third-quarter report. It dropped $4.90, or 10.8 percent, to $40.40. Shoppers are not buying as many clothes and moving toward discount chains. That trend continued as discount retailer Ross Stores rose $2.47, or 3.8 percent, to $68.
Volkswagen to shed 30,000 jobs, cutting costs after scandal BY DAV ID M CUGH ASSOCIATED PRE SS
FRANKFURT, Germany — Volkswagen announced plans Friday to cut 30,000 jobs in a wideranging restructuring of its namesake brand as it tries to recover from a scandal over cars rigged to cheat on diesel emissions tests. The German company said the job cuts, which account to around 5 percent of its global workforce, are part of a longterm plan to improve profitability and shift resources and investment to electric-powered vehicles and digital services. At a news conference at Volkswagen’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, company officials said 23,000 of the job cuts will be in Germany and that the measures will save some 3.7 billion euros ($4 billion) a year from 2020. Volkswagen employs around 120,000 people at its namesake brand in Germany. The company also said it would be hiring for
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Brand new Volkswagen cars are dsiplayed on the sales lot at Serramonte Volkswagen on Friday in Colma, California.
some 9,000 new positions related to new technology, and that some of those jobs could go to current employees. CEO Matthias Mueller said it was “the biggest reform package in the history of our core brand.” In addition to Volkswagen, the company also makes cars under other brands including Porsche, Audi, SEAT, Skoda and Lamborghini. The announcement caps a difficult year for Volkswagen, which has been embroiled in an emissions-rigging scandal that damaged the company’s reputation and cost it billions.
In response, Volkswagen has agreed to pay $15 billion to U.S. authorities and owners of some 500,000 vehicles with software that turned off emissions controls. Around 11 million cars worldwide have the deceptive software. The scandal has been a spur for the company to address longstanding problems such as high fixed costs at its manufacturing locations in Germany and excessively topdown management that many say created an environment that enabled the cheating. Herbert Diess, head of the core Volkswagen
brand, conceded that Volkswagen had let its costs rise and “lost ground in terms of productivity.” The changes, he said, would make the company “leaner and more efficient.” The cuts are aimed at addressing Volkswagen’s longstanding cost issue. Volkswagen, with 624,000 employees around the world, sells roughly the same number of cars as Toyota and General Motors — around 10 million a year. But Toyota does it with 349,000 workers and GM with 202,000. One reason often cited for VW’s higher cost-base and headcount is the role that employee representatives play at the company. As at other large German companies, employees have half the seats on the board, a power they can use to resist moving production outside Germany or to suppliers. In addition, the state of Lower Saxony, where the headquarters is located, owns a stake in the company and tends to support employee interests as well.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Julie Dash’s landmark film ‘Daughters of the Dust’ is reborn By Jake Coyle A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
NEW YORK — Julie Dash’s 1991 film “Daughters of the Dust” was the first film directed by an African American woman to get a nationwide theatrical release. When it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, its director of photography, Arthur Jafa, won best cinematography. In 2004, it was added to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry. Rapturously lyrical, wholly original, it’s been called “a landmark achievement” and "one of the most distinctive, original independent films of its time." And yet Dash — though she has since made a number of noted shorts and television films — hasn’t gotten another chance to direct a feature film. “I’m the poster child for if you make a film that’s deeply authentic, you may be benched for many, many years,” Dash, 64, said in a recent interview. “If you make a film that’s more pop or trendy or fits into various tropes, people are more comfortable with you and your ideas. “But that’s not the rea-
son we became filmmakers.” Dash never got the second shot she deserved, but “Daughters of the Dust” — widely cited as an inspiration to Beyonce’s “Lemonade” — has only gained in esteem over the years. For its 25th anniversary, Cohen Media Group has digitally restored the film. Beginning Friday with New York’s Film Forum, the restored "Daughters of the Dust" is heading back into theaters. “It’s perhaps not as much as a shock to the system as it was for some in ’91, ’92 when we were seeing a lot of AfricanAmerican male urban films,” said Dash, speaking by phone from Atlanta. “This was so very, very different from all that.” “Daughters of the Dust,” set in 1902, is about the Gullah women of the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina. Their isolation from the mainland helped its people preserve much of their African heritage, culture and language. Dash was partly inspired by writers like Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Melville Jean Herskovits, whose “The Myth of a Negro Past”
detailed the deep cultural roots that African-American slaves carried with them. In “Daughters of the Dust,” some are preparing for the post-Civil War migration north. It’s a moment of both loss and new beginning, rendered emotionally and poetically by Dash, a Queens native who grew up seeing foreign films at the Studio Museum of Harlem. “I just wanted to do a film that was so deeply embedded in the culture, was so authentic to the culture that it felt like a foreign film,” says Dash. “I wanted to do my historical drama that reimagined and redefined what we read about history in a way that wasn’t always trying to explain away what was happening. When you have to keep explaining and explaining, it just kind of misses the mark for a lot of people who already understand the culture.” Dash, who splits time between Atlanta and Los Angeles, currently teaches film at Morehouse College and Howard University. After attending AFI and UCLA in the ‘80s, she was associated with the “LA Rebellion” movement of filmmakers
that helped forge a new black cinema. “Daughters of the Dust” — made with $800,000 and largely funded by PBS’s American Playhouse — was met with great reviews from some, but it was seen as too unconventional by a movie industry with narrow ideas about African American filmmaking. She has since made TV films like the 1999 erotic thriller “Incognito,” the 2000 interracial romance “Love Song” and 2002’s Emmy-nominated “The Rosa Parks Story.” “I’ve never really felt bad about not being able to do another feature film because so many good things have come from having made (’Daughters
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of the Dust’), as it is,” Dash says. “But there certainly have been some frustrations in wondering why the doors didn’t open to me to do another feature like all the other people on the stage with us at Sundance.” Dash has watched a new wave of filmmakers continue what she helped start. Ava DuVernay, she says, “changed the landscape of everything.” “I feel like all of this is a
continuum of ideas, a recreation of the imagination and redefining who we are,” says Dash. Dash, remarkably, isn’t bitter. Her students, she urges down the same road: “Be bold. Expand your horizons.” If “Daughters of the Dust” is her legacy, she’s at peace with that. “Maybe that’s my history,” Dash says. “Maybe that’s what I was here to do.”
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FROM THE COVER
Cowboy history fading as Denton saddle shop closes By Matt Payne D EN TON RE CORD-CHRONICLE
DENTON, Texas — Out of the nearly 60 years that Weldon’s Saddle Shop & Western Wear’s doubledoors have swung open as cowboys brushed their spurs against the threshold, perhaps none of the days were longer than three in 1996. The Denton RecordChronicle reports Bell Avenue became a serious safety concern for the family store that sat flush against it when the number of lanes jumped from two to four, narrowing the sidewalk. Kippie Wilkinson, who’s worked at her father’s store for 41 years, one day seized a young boy who began to dart out the door before he ran straight into the street. Weldon Burgoon recognized this hazard and took on the challenge of hauling all his merchandise and shelves into a new location, the storefront next door. Three days soaked with
PIPELINE From page A1 We’re building at that location,” Warren said. Warren said he would welcome the chance to meet with Dave Archambault, the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux, to address the tribe’s concerns that the pipeline skirting its reservation would endanger drinking water and cultural sites. Archambault, who was with celebrity sympathizers who toured the tribe’s protest encampment Friday, including the actors Shailene Woodley and Ezra Miller, said he’d be willing to meet with Warren but that he doesn’t think it would make a difference. “We already know what he’s going to say — that this is the cleanest, safest pipeline ever,” the chairman said. "What he doesn’t know is that this is still an issue for Standing Rock and all indigenous people.” The 1,200-mile, fourstate pipeline is largely complete except for a section that would pump oil under Lake Oahe, a Missouri River reservoir in southern North Dakota. The Standing Rock tribe fears that a leak could contaminate the drinking water on its nearby reservation and says the project also threatens sacred sites, which Warren disputes. President Barack Obama earlier this month raised the possibility of rerouting the pipeline, and Archambault has told the AP that would be
FUTURE From page A1 nationwide among immigrants regardless of legal status. They are turning to lawyers, schools, advocacy groups and congressional offices for help. “We’re operating with a lot of unknowns, and a certain amount of fear comes with that,” said Vanessa Esparza-López, a managing attorney at the Chicago-based National Immigrant Justice Center. In Chicago, a hotline run by the state’s largest immigrant-rights group received more than 330 calls in the week after the election, compared with the usual 100 or so. Denver school officials sent a letter to parents in response to questions about the election’s effect on students living in the country illegally. The New York Legal Assistance Group said it’s
sweat ensued. “It was a fun thing. I guess we were lucky it was next door,” Burgoon said, recalling the puzzle of hauling furniture up a ramp and deciding what order to bring stuff in so that everything would fit. “We were proud we were able to move somewhere to better serve the public.” The marquee atop the new shop declared “A newer, safer Weldon’s,” where patrons could walk inside with ease to find Burgoon racing down carefully planned aisles that showcased what the store offered like never before. After nearly six decades, his philosophy of keeping his hands busy still holds true. But since the family’s hands are tied to other affairs, Weldon’s will shut down on Jan. 14. What was called a sprinkling of many factors contributed to the decision to close. Burgoon, 86, admitted he’s physically unable to labor at the pace he’d prefer, which first led
to his decision to retire at the end of this year. Wilkinson was originally going to take his reins since he’d soon retire. Burgoon’s grandson Clint Wilkinson, who helped run Weldon’s, would focus efforts toward his own luxury goods store. Called Wilkinson, it will sit in Weldon’s original location on East Hickory Street at Bell. But after this past summer, business reached an unprecedented low, and the shop would often close early since Kippie Wilkinson often had to drive her parents, Burgoon and Joy Weldon, to doctor appointments. “I’m property management, old folks management and grandchildren management,” Kippie Wilkinson said about her suite of duties lately. “There were some days when we had to close early, and that’s not how a business should operate.” Weldon’s used to attract a large number of high
school and college students eager to work in the shop. Many of these students were a part of Texas Future Farmers of America and participated in “distributive education,” which allowed them to work at Weldon’s and count it as a part of their curriculum. That FFA program doesn’t exist anymore, and even if there were still a crowd of potential employees lined up, Weldon’s hasn’t been able to afford needed employees for months. “Now, there’s so many bars and restaurants in the area that (students) can go work there and earn much more from just minimum wage than working with us,” Kippie Wilkinson said. Altogether, constant construction downtown and fewer advertising outlets have put a significant dent in the store’s business. The store used to purchase cable TV and radio ads when they were cheaper, but without
acceptable to the tribe as long as the new route wouldn’t take it near the reservation. Warren noted that the Dakota Access route parallels the existing Northern Border Pipeline, which crosses the Dakotas as it carries natural gas from Canada and the U.S. to the Chicago area. “We’re going to cross the river at that location,” he said, calling it the “least impactful” site. The Army Corps of Engineers in July granted ETP the permits needed for the crossing, but the agency decided in September that further analysis was warranted given the tribe’s concerns. On Monday, the Corps called for even more study and tribal input. ETP responded the next day by asking U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to declare that it has the right to lay pipe under Lake Oahe. The judge isn’t likely to issue a decision until January, at the earliest. The matter might linger until after PresidentElect Donald Trump takes office. Trump, who owns stock in ETP, has said he wants to rebuild energy infrastructure. “Do I think it’s going to get easier? Of course,” Warren said of the incoming administration. “If you’re in the infrastructure business ... you need consistency, and you need rules and (regulations). And we need to follow those — everybody needs to follow them, including our own government. That’s where
this process has gotten off track.” In the meantime, the months of protests against the pipeline continue. There have been demonstrations at the protest encampment near the site of the proposed reservoir crossing and elsewhere, including at the state Capitol and state-owned Bank of North Dakota. About 500 people have been arrested, in total. Protester Kendrick Eagle, who was with the actors on Friday, said he was part of a group that met with Obama when the president visited the reservation in June 2014 and that Obama promised to stand with the tribe. “Now is the time. We need him more than ever for this pipeline,” Eagle said. Gov. Jack Dalrymple held a news conference Friday to reiterate his frustration with what he considers undue delays by the Army Corps of Engineers and with increasingly frequent protests in and around the state capital, Bismarck. He called it “a tremendously challenging, tremendously difficult situation.” Warren called protests that became violent “repulsive,” but he also said the company could have done some things differently. “I think we could have had communication with state government before we did,” he said. “That dialogue wasn’t started until after we had a problem.”
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receiving 40 to 60 daily calls about immigration, up from 20 to 30. The Trump Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles reported 19 walk-ins on a single day, all with citizenship questions. The most urgent inquiries have been from young people benefiting from a 2012 federal program started by President Barack Obama’s administration that allows immigrants brought to the country illegally as children to avoid deportation and get work permits. About 740,000 people have participated in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals system. Attorneys say the program is vulnerable because it was created by executive order, not by
law, leaving new potential applicants second-guessing whether to sign up. Andrea Aguilera, a 20-year-old college student in suburban Chicago, feels in limbo with her DACA paperwork expiring next year. She was brought across the Mexican border illegally as a 4-year-old and largely kept her immigration status secret until she was able to get a work permit through DACA four years ago. She’s since worked as a grocery store cashier and intern at a downtown financial company. Two of her siblings are in the program; another is a U.S. citizen. “It’s been hard to focus on school,” Aguilera said. “I just don’t know what’s going to come next for us.” During the campaign, Trump pledged to deport the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally and to build a border wall. The
thank Judith Canales, FSA State Executive Director, and representatives from USDA FSA, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Zapata County for helping to make this meeting possible.” Meeting topics include
AGENT From page A1 tact local law enforcement authorities,” the council said in a statement. Sheriff’s investigators learned that upper manager had spoken to Lopez before on numerous occasions, but Lopez continued to harass many agents, an affidavit states. Harassment On Nov. 4, a union representative along with two agents wanted to file a harassment report against a supervisor, Lopez, at the Zapata Border Patrol Station. One agent told the Sheriff’s Office he feared for his life at the Zapata Station. Lopez had allegedly stared him down, cussed at him and had attempted to make physical contact with him. “Supervisor Lopez had continued with his harassment even after being asked to stop numerous times by upper management,” states the criminal complaint.
Republican presidentelect has not detailed how he will proceed and recently walked back the number of anticipated deportees. The Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for lower immigration levels, explained the spike in activity as uncertainty about whether existing laws will be enforced by Trump’s administration. Jon Feere, a legal analyst at the Washington D.C.based research organization, said those enrolled in DACA were aware of the risks when they signed up. Others should have little concern. “Those who are in compliance with the law have nothing to worry about,” he said. Still, even immigrants with permanent legal status have had questions since the election. Attorneys and immigrant organizations said green card holders
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Kippie Wilkinson, left, and owner Weldon Burgoon inside of Weldon's Saddle Shop & Western Wear, which has been on Hickory Street in Denton, Texas since 1957.
them, foot traffic has seen a sharp decline. North Texans, nevertheless, have been able to “buy from a real cowboy” for years, and Burgoon ensured that experience beyond his store by living like a real cowboy. He said he cherished each of the local events he’s been involved in. Burgoon was previously the rodeo chairman for the North Texas Fair and Rodeo for 14 years, and let dozens of FFA students mow grass, haul hay and deal with farm animals on his land five miles east of Denton. The event he most cherishes is Mutton Bustin’, a three-day competition at the North Texas Fair and Rodeo in which children ride lambs the same way professional rodeo riders get on bulls. Seeing the
Western spirit carried on in youths spreads a wide grin across Burgoon’s face. Kippie Wilkinson’s son Blake is the man nowadays who labors at his grandfather’s land to bale hay and tend to the animals. He started working at Weldon’s at age 11 cleaning toilets on the weekends but soon climbed the ranks. Now in his adult life with children of his own, he reflects with satisfaction on his time working in his grandfather’s Western store. “It’s been OK,” Blake Wilkinson said. “Like most family businesses, you have both your up and down days. You always hear that family businesses break up families. And fortunately for me, I don’t feel like it’s been like that.”
acreage reporting; agriculture risk coverage (ARC) and price loss coverage (PLC); Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-raised Fish (ELAP); farm records changes and updates; Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP); and Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP).
Speakers include: 1 Judith A. Canales, FSA State Executive Director 1 Benny Cano Jr., FSA District Director 1 Arnulfo Lerma, FSA Farm Loan Manager 1 Rene Reyna, FSA County Executive Director – Starr and Zapata Counties 1 Zaragosa Rodriguez IV, Texas A&M AgriLife County Extension Agent
The agent contemplated quitting his job to avoid harassment by Lopez. Furthermore, Lopez had embarrassed him at the workplace and attempted to shoulder bump him, the complaint states. Records alleged Lopez had patterns of reckless behavior. The agent was afraid Lopez would provoke physical violence. Lopez allegedly tried to provoke the agent in an unprofessional manner by being confrontational and trying to intimidate him on a daily basis. Another agent said he started being harassed by Lopez a few months after being assigned to the Zapata Station. Lopez had gone out of his way to make sure the agent would not speak, according to court documents. When the agent confronted Lopez about “issues,” Lopez would get aggravated, states the complaint. Records do not specify what the “issues” were. ‘The agents fear me’ Court documents al-
leged Lopez would tell his fellow supervisors, “You see. The agents fear me.” Lopez allegedly made comments about a grievance filed against him: “Un (a) grievance! It’s a piece of paper.” “I rub it in my (expletive) (expletive) dumb kids,” he said in Spanish, according to court records. The agent too thought about quitting his job because he could no longer tolerate the workplace environment. He wanted to avoid any more harassment from Lopez and feared he would provoke workplace violence by physically attacking him, according to court documents. “The National Border Patrol Council and its subsidiary locals seek to resolve issues at the lowest level possible. In cases like this one, where Border Patrol managers condone, aid and coverup the criminal actions of other managers, there is little recourse but to seek assistance from other law enforcement agencies,” the union said in the statement.
feel new urgency to ensure that paperwork such as a renewal application is in order over fears that laws could change under a new administration. Most immigrants can seek citizenship three to five years after getting a green card. Roughly 9 million green card holders are currently eligible for citizenship, according to the most recent Department of Homeland Security statistics. Some citizens also sought clarity about when they could sponsor family members abroad. “People need reassurance,” said Irina Matiychenko, who leads the immigrant protection unit at the New York Legal Assistance Group. “People need guidance.” In Phoenix, local leaders planned a weekend meeting about being an immigrant in Arizona as an effort to “guide us on the path of trust and
unity.” Staff members at the Chicago office of Democratic U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez reported an uptick in activity with at least 60 new applications for citizenship the past two weeks. School districts, including Chicago and Denver, used the election as a way to communicate existing policy. Denver Superintendent Tom Boasberg said the 90,000-student district sent letters in four languages home in response to what teachers were hearing from students and parents. The letter reiterated that school officials do not ask about immigration status when students enroll. “In a time of fear and concern, lots of rumors and misinformation spread,” he said. “And that’s why it’s so important to get accurate factual information to our families from a very trusted source.”
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NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: HOUSTON TEXANS VS. OAKLAND RAIDERS
Do-over in Mexico City on Monday Texans heading to Mexico for game against Raiders By Barry Wilner ASSOCIATED PRE SS
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Monday Night Football between the Texans and Raiders will be held in Mexico City this week at Azteca Stadium, 11 years after the network last broadcast a game there.
ESPN is getting a doover. Eleven years after the network telecast an NFL game from Mexico City , it will do so again when the Raiders “host” the Texans on Monday night. Jay Rothman, ESPN’s vice president of production and the “Monday Night Football” producer, wants this broadcast to be a lot different. “We were there in 2005 and I wish we could
do ‘05 over again, and we will not make the same omissions,” Rothman says. “We went in and did the game and got out. “Mexico City is such an awesome city and we will make it a weekendlong spectacle.” ESPN has lucked out that the game has plenty of significance, with the Raiders tied for the AFC West lead and best record in the conference heading in, and the Texans leading the AFC South. But this is about Texans continues on B2
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: DALLAS COWBOYS
BRYANT CREDITS CHEMISTRY Cowboys WR reflects after father’s death By Schuyler Dixon A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
FRISCO, Texas — Dez Bryant hesitated to talk about playing a day after the death of his father, and preferred not to try to add anything to Tony Romo’s heartfelt statement about the quarterback situation in Dallas. The Cowboys’ star receiver had already drained enough emotion on the field in a wild win at Pittsburgh, less than a week after his passionate reminder that critics didn’t think he’d still be around six years after he slid in the draft because of concerns over character. To try to get Bryant
talking, someone offered a description of his game against the Steelers , when he had six catches for 116 yards and a 50-yard touchdown that ended with him in tears on his knees in the end zone rather than in his customary “X” pose. “It was cool,” the 2014 All-Pro said, smiling as the brief answer stopped, drawing laughter from reporters. There is another way to get Bryant going these days. Ask about the chemistry he’s been raving about for weeks on a team with the NFL’s best record (8-1) heading into Sunday’s game against AFC NorthCowboys continues on B2
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Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant credited his teammates’ support as he played a day after his father passed away last Sunday in a win at Pittsburgh.
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Cougars damage Louisville’s playoff hopes in dominant win By Kristie Rieken ASSOCIATED PRE SS
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With backup quarterback Jake Hubenak in the lineup after an injury to Trevor Knight, Texas A&M has lost two straight and faces off with UTSA Saturday.
Sliding Texas A&M squares off with UTSA
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With a major upset, Houston upset No. 5 Louisville on Thursday night — most likely ending their playoff hopes — thanks to Ed Oliver and the defense shutting down Heisman frontrunner Lamar Jackson.
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COLLEGE STATION — Two weeks ago, the Texas A&M Aggies were in position to nab a spot in the College Football Playoff after they were ranked fourth in the first installment of the rankings. Now two straight losses to unranked teams and
an injury to quarterback Trevor Knight have the 23rd-ranked Aggies (7-3) looking for a way to end the downward spiral when they host UTSA on Saturday. “No one in this building, from players, coaches, people around us, are happy about last two weeks,” coach Kevin Sumlin said. “No way Aggies continues on B2
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Embattled coach Strong leads Texas in trip to Kansas By Dave Skretta
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HOUSTON — The Houston Cougars quite enjoyed playing spoiler on Thursday night with their playoff hopes long since gone. Duke Catalon scored three touchdowns and Houston hurried and harassed Heisman favorite Lamar Jackson all night to propel the Cou-
gars to a stunning 36-10 victory over No. 3 Louisville that dashed the Cardinals’ playoff chances. “I think our guys, they embrace the underdog role,” Houston coach Tom Herman said. “When we’re healthy, when we’re fresh and we have that chip on our shoulder against big time opponents ... we don’t change
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LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas coach David Beaty is about as Texan as it gets, from his subtle drawl to his childhood days in Wylie, a decade spent coaching high schools and assistant stints at Rice and Texas A&M. Yet unlike his players from the Lone Star State, Beaty insists there’s noth-
ing special about facing the Longhorns. “When you’re playing those schools that maybe they went to camp at or maybe got recruited or didn’t get recruited by, there is probably some emotion. Plus the affiliation with that state,” Beaty said, “but from my standpoint, it’s never really been like that. I’m just a fan of football, period.” ‘Horns continues on B2
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Texas’ Collin Johnson and the Longhorns face Kansas Saturday trying to become bowl eligible.
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SPORTS “I love Dez Bryant,” Garrett said. “Anyone who has had a chance to be around him loves him the same. He believes strongly in developing relationships with people around him. He loves this football team. He loves his teammates. It’s hard not to feel the same way about him.” Bryant believes team chemistry helped ease the transition to rookie Dak Prescott, who has won eight straight games and is keeping the quarterback job even though Romo, the 10-year starter, is ready to play following a preseason back injury. Romo has been the guy on the other end of most of Bryant’s 434 catches and 6,223 yards in his career. When Bryant offered enthusiastic updates on Romo’s recovery from the broken bone in his back from a preseason game, some interpreted it as his desire to get Romo back on the field. But Bryant
had been clear from early in the season that he thought Prescott could be something special. Pundits seized on Bryant’s pair of one-catch games with Prescott. Yet he also has three 100-yard games in the six he has played; Bryant missed three games with a knee injury. “I feel like I have been misunderstood for so long,” said Bryant, who had off-field issues early in his career and several emotional outbursts on the sidelines. “I’m really not supposed to be in the league right now, according to a lot of people. But I’m here. A lot of people try to say I’m a ‘me, me, me’ guy. That’s never been. That’s not how I was taught.” And he believes that has something to do with why he is still in the league, and signed his big contract. “I genuinely care about people,” he said. “I’ve
been around a lot of hate in my life. That’s something I try my best to eliminate every day. Like I said, I’m no longer interested in trying to get people to see who I am.” Witten, in his 14th season and the Dallas leader in career receptions, is among those who have tangled with Bryant in sideline episodes through the years. Those incidents never seemed to spill into the locker room during the week, and they’re less frequent. “That’s one of the relationships that I’ve cherished the most over the last seven years,” Witten said. “We talk about it all the time, but when you can have an impact like that and see a guy come along on the field, the skill set he brings, how competitive he is and then the growth that goes with it, he’s a brother of mine.” Bryant felt that bond more than ever last weekend.
The victory was Houston’s second this season over a team ranked third after the Cougars (9-2) knocked off Oklahoma to open the season and it was their fourth straight win over a top-10 team. Things went wrong quickly for the mistakeprone Cardinals when they fumbled awau the opening kickoff. Greg Ward threw his first touchdown pass on the next play to make it 7-0. Brandon Radcliff lost a fumble later in the first and Houston added a field goal on the ensuing drive to make it 10-0. Jackson threw for 211 yards and a touchdown, but it didn’t come until the second half. Houston then scored touchdowns on three straight possessions in the second quarter to push the lead to 31-0 at halftime.
Catalon caught a touchdown pass, ran for another score and Houston got the third score in that span on a 50-yard pass by receiver Linell Bonner after a lateral. Louisville opened the second half with a 12-yard touchdown pass by Jackson, but he fumbled in the red zone on the next possession to ruin a chance to close the gap. The Cougars were in Jackson’s face constantly, sacking him a season-high 11 times and keeping him from hurting them with his feet. He ran for a season-low 33 yards after piling up 338 yards rushing combined in the last two games. The 11 sacks were tied for the most allowed in the country this season. After Jackson was sacked for the 10th time he threw up his hands and
two of his lineman looked to be yelling at each other about who was to blame for his latest takedown. But the Cougars weren’t done getting after him just yet. On the next possession he threw the ball away while under heavy pressure from Tyus Bowser and was flagged for intentional grounding, giving the Cougars a safety. The Cardinals set a season-high with 15 penalties, punted a season-high six times by halftime and the 11 sacks they allowed were more than double their previous seasonhigh. It’s the fewest points they’ve scored since a loss at North Carolina in 2011. Ward threw for 233 yards and two touchdowns to help the Cougars to the victory that left Cougar fans storming the field to celebrate.
you can be. Because those are two games we wanted to win and where we were headed and what was at stake were big games.” This week, Texas A&M seems likely get a shot of confidence it desperately needs to move on from losses to Mississippi State and Mississippi when the team hosts the Roadrunners, who have only had a football program since 2011. The Aggies host LSU on Thanksgiving to wrap up the regular season. Sumlin and his staff are trying to get the team back on track by stressing what winning the rest of the games could do for their season. “When all is said and done, depending on what happens these last two games, it will say a lot about where this team going to be,” Sumlin said.
“Because of what happened in college football the last few weeks, with two games to go, winning those two games could put you in lot of different scenarios that are very positive for this program.” The Aggies will look for Jake Hubenak to be more consistent after up and down play since taking over for Knight, who is out for the regular season with a shoulder injury. Hubenak came in for Knight in the first half against Mississippi State and made his second career start last week against Mississippi and threw an interception in both games. UTSA coach Frank Wilson doesn’t love playing a non-conference game this late in the season, but he and his team are embracing the challenge of facing a Southeastern Conference opponent. “In an ideal world, you like to be in conference
because of the parity,” he said. “But the way the schedule is set it allows us to get up and really measure ourselves against one of the better teams in the country.” Some things to know about the UTSA-Texas A&M game:
school history to rush for 1,000 yards. Williams had 17 carries for 72 yards last week and has six touchdowns this season.
CHASING 1,000 Texas A&M RB Trayveon Williams needs 124 yards rushing to become the first true freshman in
DANGEROUS KIRK Texas A&M’s Christian Kirk leads the nation with three punt returns for touchdowns this season. He is two shy of tying the NCAA record for punt returns in a season set by Chad Owens of Hawaii in 2004 and North Carolina’s Ryan Switzer in 2013. Kirk, who is a sophomore, has five punt return touchdowns in his career.
those perspectives and stories.” Gruden has become something of a rock star in the NFL broadcasting world, and while his main job is to dissect play on the field, it will be intriguing to hear his take on not only the game, but the entire scene Monday night. He coached the Raiders in a preseason game against the Cowboys in Mexico City in 2001. “The stadium is what I remember the most,” he says. “The tradition, the monstrosity of it, the excitement of playing in a place you have only seen and heard about. I am anxious to get back there and rekindle the feeling.” Azteca has undergone massive renovations, not only to attract the NFL’s return, but as home of Club America and of the Mexican national soccer
team, and to keep it on the radar for major events in the world’s most popular sport. Yet it has kept much of its uniqueness, Rothman notes. “There’s still the moat and the barbed wire, which was there in ‘05,” he says. “They built these beautiful locker rooms, but they are outside the stadium (bowl). “Players will walk to and from the field through the stands to the stadium’s outside, which is where the locker rooms are. It is 7,200 feet (in altitude), and you think especially of the heavy players wearing pads making that walk. Can’t imagine doing it with helmets and pads on. They will be sucking air bigtime. “It will allow for unique shots and vantage points, not only from the air but the
nooks and crannies of the stadium and its features, the march to the field and back up, the pageantry.” Rothman promises his network won’t avoid covering any non-football news that becomes relevant with the NFL in town. Concern has been voiced in some circles about potential protests in Mexico City over the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. “We wear our news hats, too, and we will get together and discuss that,” Rothman says. “If there are things outside and inside the stadium to cover, we would be criticized for ignoring them and we need to do the right thing. “I don’t think we’d intentionally shoot specific signs (of protest), but if we see what we have seen outside the Trump Tower, we will be
obligated to cover it.” Gruden says he has no concerns about safety or security. “I am excited to go,” he says. “I’ve got my passport and ready to roll. Last time I was there I got to see some really cool places and met some people — I have no concerns whatsoever.” In the end, what usually is most memorable about NFL games on international stages is how entertaining the game is. In that way, the reactions are no different from games held in Miami or the Meadowlands, Seattle or San Diego. “I got a feeling there will be a lot of Raiders fans,” Gruden says. “There were the last time I was there ... and there will be a lot of Texans fans there. It will be loud, like a Raiders home game, I wouldn’t be surprised.”
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Texas is 5-5 this season in the third year under head coach Charlie Strong. The team was 5-7 in 2015 and did not qualify for a bowl game.
‘HORNS From page B1 Still, Beaty does have a unique understanding of the pressure for those involved with the Longhorns — the pressure that has pushed their own coach, Charlie Strong, firmly onto the hot seat. Texas (5-5, 3-4 Big 12) can become bowl-eligible by beating the Jayhawks (1-9, 0-7) on Saturday, but even that might not be enough to save Strong’s job. The decision is expected to be made after the season. To his credit, Strong has remained diplomatic about his future. “There’s no excuses. The losses are mounting,” he said, “and there are games that we should win, and we had our opportunities there and we didn’t win them. But we still have a football team still competing and still playing hard, and that’s what you like to see happen.” It has been a season of near-misses for both teams. Last week was no exception. The Jayhawks led Iowa State deep into the third quarter before falling, 31-24. Texas spent the entire fourth quarter chasing the go-ahead touchdown in a 24-20 loss to West Virginia . That leaves both teams even more desperate heading into Saturday. Here are some things to watch: BOWLS MATTER The Longhorns are accustomed to playing in big games, but even a less-heralded bowl game would be a positive step for a program that went 5-7 and missed out on the postseason last year. “I watched a few of them. I was just really too, kind of upset to even watch a lot of them,” Texas safety P.J. Locke said of the bowl season. “I just watched a few of them, maybe the national championship and maybe a few others, and that was it, though.” NARROW DEFEATS The loss to West Virginia was hardly the only close call for the Long-
TEXANS From page B1 more than football. It is about the first international series match there since the Cardinals beat the 49ers at Azteca Stadium in 2005. It’s about the stadium itself, one of the most famous sports venues in the world. It’s about the fans, who might not follow football as closely as they do “futbol,” but who generally embrace the American game. And it is about Mexico. “The X’s and O’s we do every week,” Rothman says. “I think we are silly not to take advantage and sprinkle in the history of Azteca Stadium. Culturally, look at the fans of Mexico, who share the passion they have for the NFL. The food, the flavor, and
horns, who lost by a touchdown to California, six points to Oklahoma and a field goal to Kansas State. If those games go the other direction, perhaps Strong’s job security looks a little different. “It’s definitely frustrating,” Texas wide receiver Collin Johnson said, “and at the same time it’s encouraging because we know we can compete with anybody. We’ve just got to just pull it together. We’re so close, and we’ve just got to keep working and building off of what we’ve been doing.” AILING JAYHAWKS Beaty said linebacker Marcquis Roberts will not return this season because of a shoulder injury and defensive end Anthony Olobia is out with a season-ending Achilles injury. Both seniors would have been playing their final game at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. AS FOR KINNER Kansas running back Ke’aun Kinner was also hurt against Iowa State, taking a wicked shot that left him with a bruised rib. But the Jayhawks are hopeful he will be able to play. “He looked good in practice,” Beaty said, “so I feel good about him. I think he’s going to be OK. We really need him to be OK. He ran really well the other night.” SENIOR DAY Kinner should be among the seniors playing their final home game, along with safety Fish Smithson, offensive lineman D’Andre Banks and others. Many were recruited to Kansas by Charlie Weis, went through interim Clint Bowen and wrapped up their careers with their third head coach. “The big thing for these guys, and we’ve been talking about it from the beginning, is the foundation that we’re laying here,” Beaty said, “regardless whether we were a bowl team or a team that was still doing foundational work. Understanding that each individual day was going to be basically a step in the right direction for the future of our program.”
points of interest. We will do that all within the body of a three-hour show.” Actually, ESPN isn’t so limited. It will also stage its pregame shows and other studio programming from Mexico City this weekend. Joining the broadcast team of Sean McDonough, Jon Gruden and Lisa Salters will be ESPN Deportes’ John Sutcliffe, who lives in the city. “John is a rock star in Mexico now, he is our breakthrough guy,” Rothman says. “He will have kind of like a Jim McKay host-type role, though that is challenging within a football game. “He will be integrated to share the great moments of Azteca, educate people on the fandom of Mexican fans and as a great people. He is our point person to share
leading Baltimore (5-4). Bryant wasn’t expecting that bond to affect him this personally, though. Not until he had to play so soon after finding out his father died, and while the team was on the road. “If I didn’t have my teammates or that type of vibe — if we didn’t have this type of vibe in the locker room — I don’t think I could’ve played in that game, to be honest,” Bryant said. “These guys are amazing.” The scene in the end zone was rare for the normally demonstrative Bryant, who is tied with teammate Jason Witten with 62 career touchdowns, third in club history and nine shy of Hall of Famer Bob Hayes’ record. The full embrace with coach Jason Garrett is what stood out on the sideline.
COUGARS From page B1 the way we prepare for these kind of games, but I do think our guys have an added motivation.” Louisville (9-2) entered the game ranked fifth in the College Football Playoff rankings, but was outdone by a Houston team that saw its own playoff hopes foiled by two losses to unranked teams after a 5-0 start . “Showing the world once again that Houston is the greatest school, a great place to be, a great environment,” Houston defensive tackle Ed Oliver said. “We work hard for everything that we ever had and will have. We’re legit. We’re go-getters. No matter the task, we always come through the other side.”
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COMING HOME Saturday will be a homecoming UTSA’s top two receivers, Josh Stewart and Kerry Thomas, who both grew up in College Station. Stewart has 29 catches for 591 yards and four touchdowns and Thomas has 22 receptions for 303 yards and seven scores. “Some guys are late bloomers,” Sumlin said. “Can’t get them all. Those guys will be excited to play here, to be basically back home to play at Kyle Field.”
GOING BOWLING? The Roadrunners (5-5) need to win one of their last two games to become bowl eligible for the first time in school history. UTSA won seven games in 2013 but the school was not eligible for a bowl because it was in its final year of reclassifying to the Football Bowl Subdivision.
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