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Ron Berler is a Connecticut-based freelance writer and author of “Raising the Curve: A Year Inside One of America’s 45,000 Failing Public Schools.” This piece ran originally in the Houston Chronicle. Two weeks after the funeral for Amerie Jo Garza,...

Local View: Remember Heatwave Berler? Started in Duluth, hes still hot in Texas From the column: "The winters (in Duluth) just about killed him. He’d curl up in bed with a good meteorology book and dream about Senegal, the Amazon rainforest — and Laredo." Written By: Ron Berler | × KDAL-TV weatherman Richard "Heatwave" Berler wearing one of his T-shirts, August 1976. (Joey McLeister / News-Tribune) When my brother, Richard “Heatwave” Berler, met me at the Laredo, Texas, a...