The Brownsville Beacon

  By Diego Garcia III | Editor of The Brownsville Beacon I am not the smartest person in the world. I have never thought I was. I did not graduate at the top of my class when I walked across the stage to receive my high school diploma. I did not graduate with the highest Latin honors when I walked across the stage on the South Lawn of UTB to receive my degree. I will never have a Washington, D.C. think tank knocking down the door offering me big money to go work for them. I'm a simple guy who just likes pouring his opinions out on the internet. All that said, I am smart enough to know our electoral process needs a serious and immediate overhaul. As I type this out, a winner has not yet been declared in Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina. There is absolutely no reason why it should take a state, province, or commonwealth from a technologically advanced, industrialized, First World nation more than a full week after an election is over to decide who won. There's also no reason ...

By Diego Garcia III | Editor of The Brownsville Beacon Riding to an election victory on the coattails of your incumbency isn't what it used to be. Gone are the days of the incumbent being able to sit back and run a relatively plain campaign through primary season through to the general election. This phenomenon is happening in greater numbers at the local level with it bleeding over into the state and national level. State Senator Eddie Lucio's campaign was nearly sunk after narrowly beating out a political newcomer in a runoff election after the Democratic primary. Let that sink in for just a few minutes. A career politician who has been in Cameron County and state politics for over three decades was nearly defeated by a political newcomer running an upstart, grassroots campaign. Donald Trump joins a small number of men who have failed to win reelection to the presidency, Following in the footsteps of other one-term presidents like George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. Being an i...

 By Diego Garcia III | Editor of The Brownsville Beacon The worst part of being a Cowboys fan who was around in the 1990's is remembering what it was to be a fan when your favorite team was powerful, feared, and respected. It is difficult to see your favorite team put such an underperforming, underachieving product on the field.  A close second is all the preseason hype and all the predictions of the talking heads and NFL analysts who constantly predict the Cowboys are going to be a force to be reckoned with. Several even went as far as predicting an appearance in this year's Super Bowl for the beleaguered Dallas football team. If I had a nickel for every time I cringed at a commentator predicting a Cowboys win, I'd have a whole lot of nickels. The Cowboys management team seems to be perfectly happy putting the mediocre product it puts out on the field. The Jones family doesn't seem too worried about winning so long as the fans keep buying tickets, caps, jerseys, nachos...