Word: tatangelo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thanks to former officials who "mishandled" city funds, an astonishing 2,720 of Laredo's 5,400-odd blocks need paving at a cost of some $10,000 each. Another 2,000 blocks require resurfacing at $2,600 apiece. With little money available for such work, Mayor Aldo Tatangelo and City Councilman Felipe Sanchez decided to put the streets on the block...
Estimated price: $400,000. Larry Plotkin, owner of a lumberyard, has handed over $32,000 for a street he plans to use as a parking lot. Mayor Tatangelo, up for reelection, is ecstatic: "Anything that's good gets you votes, and this idea is definitely good." Even the city engineers are happy. The street maps, they say, needed updating anyway...
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