Economic Blues on Pitkin Avenue

Posted on March 12, 2008 by ccruz25

Small Businesses Feel the Effects of the Slump in Spending
By 2 pm, Pitkin Communications had only serviced three customers from the moment the cellular phone store opened at 10 am. The customers came in to buy minutes for their cell phones; a transaction that only brought in five percent per card and did not, by [...]

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Brownsville, under a different light

Posted on October 17, 2007 by ccruz25

Another way to look at Brownsville:

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Photojournalism Project

Posted on September 15, 2007 by ccruz25

The following is a link to my photo gallery on Flickr. I will add more stuff after I go to Brownsville tomorrow morning.
I went to Brownsville on Tuesday, Sept. 18 and took the following four pictures.

Gates to Heaven

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