Daily Archives: 05/01/2011

(Community Matters) NYTimes on same sex marriage

(Community Matters) Yesterday Mike Levy forwarded a March Dallas Morning News article about the Mexican Zeta gang establishing national distribution in Dallas and noting that federal authorities considered Austin a high-intensity drug area. Dallas Morning News

AusChron 2010

Austin is a so-called “tier two” city for the drug trade, meaning in part that because the city sits along the IH-35 corridor it has developed as a “command and control center” for the four main Mexican cartels (La Familia, the Gulf Cartel, Sinaloa, and Los Zetas) that move drugs (mostly cocaine and methamphetamine, he said) through Texas and to other states.