Marathon:
More progress has been reported on having the bridge at La Linda reopened for cross-border tourism traffic. On returning from a trip to Washington, DC, Tyrus Fain, a co-chair of Big Bend Border Council released a list of sixteen “requirements” the US State Department says must be fulfilled before the bridge linking Brewster County’s heath canyon to La Linda, Coahuila can be reopened. Principal among them are “consolidation of bridge and adjoining lands ownership” and an agreement from the Department of Homeland security to staff an inspection facility at the bridge site. Read more…