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May 20—Eight city of Brownsville charter amendment propositions approved by voters in the May 1 election, including propositions having to do with term limits for elected city officials, were ...
May 6—No major course changes appear to be on the horizon for the Brownsville Navigation District if the results from the May 4 elections in Cameron County are any indication, at least when it ...
Sep. 12—The Brownsville City Commission recently approved two ordinances aimed at asserting some control over how elections go down in the city. One amends Chapter 40, "Elections," in the Code ...
Cameron County, officially the County of Cameron, is the southernmost county in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 421,017. [1] [2] Its county seat is Brownsville.
The elections coincided with the 2024 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections. The primary elections took place on March 5, 2024.
The mayor and a six-member city commission are selected in nonpartisan elections. [143] Four members are elected from geographic districts; the remaining two members are elected at-large. Since Brownsville is the county seat of Cameron County, many county offices are in Brownsville. The city's public library system has two branches. [144]
May 30—A proposal to replace Brownsville's two existing economic development organizations (EDOs) with a single Municipal Development District (MDD) might have had a better change of success if ...
Blanca Sanchez Vela (May 27, 1936 – February 19, 2014) was an American politician and matriarch of one of the most prominent families in Brownsville, Texas. [1] Vela, who served as the Mayor of Brownsville from 1999 until 2003, was the city's first female mayor. [1] [2] She remains the only woman to hold the mayoral office to date.