A. Torkzadeh
Staff Writer
The Brownsville Herald

Nov. 29, 1989

New year's resolutions for Brownsville's Ivan and Nora Espindola probably will not include paying off their outstanding parking tickets.

A. Torkzadeh
Marietta Daily Journal Staff Writer

Sept. 8, 1991

Cobb County government is clean—or at least its cars are. The county spends $35,000 a year to send its cars through commercial car washes—outpacing similar spending at every other metro area county by several fold.

A. Torkzadeh
Staff Writer
The Brownsville Herald

Three Brownsville city commissioners now have private car telephones that cost the city more than $4,000 a year.

Since December, Commissioner William Garza and J.M. "Butch" Barbosa have been using car phone bought, installed and maintained by the city. Car phone bills for Commissioner Pete Benavides, who already owned a car phone, also are now being paid by the city.

A. Torkzadeh
Marietta Daily Journal

SOUTH COBB — No homes, no businesses, not even a solitary billboard can be found along a brand new three-lane road county government has built in south Cobb. Even cars rarely pass over the fresh asphalt that winds through the woods, area residents say.