BLACKHOLE DISCOVERED AT UTB-TSC

By Juan Montoya

Astronomers from throughout the nation and the world have focused their attention on Brownsville, Texas, as a potential site for a black hole that has swallowed millions and will potentially swallow even more of our unwary dollars.
The city "On the Border, By the Sea," arrested the attention of these sky watchers after the disappearance of nearly $21 million associated with the construction of a truck-rail bridge at the Brownsville Navigation District.
Using sophisticated measuring instruments and nano particle-imaging techniques, they deduced that a large number of the missing dollars ended up just outside the hole's dimensions in the nearby Mexico nebula, and even more difficult area to investigate.
The gravitational pull of a nearby White Dwarf tentatively named the Dannebaum Formation (Dannenbaum Engineering Corp.), was said to have pulled the green matter from the hole and then slingshot it southward. The only other remnants – $1 million – were sucked up by a faster-than-light quasar named the (Armando) Villalobos.
Part of the $1 million, in turn, was siphoned off by the Cameron County commissioners court as a way for Villalobos to comply with a green-matter budget reduction. It is said that part of that $1 million went toward assisting the Sheriff's Department to meet it's own budget reduction.

Dannebaum didn't admit it ripped off the local taxpayers. Villalobos got some hush-money, and the court laundered it to help out Omar Lightyear retain his budget in orbit. "Ladron que roba a ladron..."
But that is only one part of the matter falling into the black hole.
A news article written by local daily reporter Emma Perez-Treviño hinted that some of that loot could may have fallen into the pull of TBX Resources Inc. of Dallas.
TBX and its subsidiary Gulftex Operating Inc. have faced findings of fraud, money-laundering and other securities trading violations in three states, including Texas, where they are now in merger negotiations with parties involved in a prospective international bridge linking Brownsville and Matamoros.
The corporation was tied to Louis H. Jones Jr., an engineer with Dannenbaum who is named in the merger agreement. DEC was the consultant on the non-existent bridge here, receiving $15.5 million from the Brownsville Navigation District.
Most of the money went to corporations in Mexico with ties to Mexico’s Grupo Respira principals Hector Larios Santillan, Miguel Nagel Leon and Steven C. Howard of Dallas.
Records that TBX filed with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission note that if the merger goes through, Jones, Larios, Nagel, Howard and others would be on the board of directors of the surviving corporation. Grupo Respira continues to be named by DEC as the preferred concessionaire on the BND project.
Could some of the payments made to the Jones corporations in Mexico have been used to bankroll the TBX deals? Instruments currently available do not give us a clear picture of that possibility.
Observers of that area indicate that more than $11 million from the Brownsville Public Utilities Board was washed into the Weir Project, which never came to fruition. One of the directors of the BPUB – one Cris Valadez – was quoted saying that the PUB needed "at least another $10 million" for the empty space out by the river.
This is in addition to the tens of thousands of dollars that have been sunk into the dark region in the sector around FM 511 called the brackish water plant where arsenic-laden liquid matter has been the result of more than five years of seeking that elusive liquid, water.
Still, that doesn't explain how millions keep falling into the abyss around the Brownsville region. Now investigators are trying to find out where another $3 million in federal greenbacks funneled to the area by U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department. City officials are mum on the matter and no one – least of all the local daily, The Brownsville Space Cadet – seems to want to know.
And some proponents of the Brownsville Sports Park – trying to justify some $23 million spent to produce a somewhat empty space with a few green spots and stadium lights – say that you can't see the distant objects because the improvement are all underground. They propose that we sink another $30 million into a Phase Two.
"We have the only underground stadium in the country," they chortle. "Now we need more space to pee and take a shower."
Another $5 million disappeared after the city's proposal to a municipal wireless system vanished into thin air. This neutrino-like wireless is somewhere out there in the space and continuum, we are sure.
And let's not forget the Brownsville Independent School District's launch of its $135 million construction bond issue. Faster than you can say "Galileo, Galileo" the money began disappearing into the center of some local architects and developers. Stargazers have only been able to detect an example of how the green matter started melting away in the Veterans Memorial High School after the estimated $40 million project suddenly exploded like a super nova and grew to a $65 million before the bonds collapsed onto themselves.
Other lesser amounts of matter slipped away when the Texas Department of Transportation told the BISD that it needed more than one entrance to the Manzano-Keller schools besides the one that went onto Alton Gloor. Suddenly a $150,000 home had to be purchased and demolished to accommodate the increased traffic.
We can only guess at the amounts that disappeared into Brownsville Black Hole with the Titan Tire and Taylorcraft disaster. But we know that The Brownsville Economic Development Corporation allowed some $250,000 to disappear into the pockets of space marauder Oscar Garcia Jr. (Oscar The Lesser) with his barrio-friendly nonprofit group called GenteNet.

And who can forget Imagine Brownsville, that $1 million wish-list group that resulted in that amount being gobbled up by McAllen space troopers and Matamoros-connected profiteers to paint us a pretty picture.

After they secured pledges of $25,000 annually from five local entities, the plans came to a sudden halt when the new crew at the Texas Southmost College board revisited the deal.

Now we understand that the "United Brownsville" board has cancelled its meeting "until further notice."

We would be remiss not to mention the $63 million bond issue by the UTB-TSC board. Besides getting pretty buildings, a less than 50 percent retention rate for freshmen and a 16 percent graduation rate over six years, the administration was caught red-handed as it tried to shoot $640,000 in loot to a Mexican sculptor for a pretty mural.

We're sure that as our instruments of detection improve, we will be able to see just how much of local taxpayers hard-earned loot are being sucked into the Brownsville Black Hole. That sucking sound that Perot heard wasn't commerce heading south. It was your money going into the black hole that Brownsville has become.