By Gregg WendorfAdvance News JournalFound out from an old buddy last week that the same Hidalgo County Courthouse chismé hasn’t stopped percolating.It goes something like this — Hidalgo County had an audit done on the new $185 million courthouse and discovered that it’s cheaper to tear it down and start over, as opposed to fixing all the deficiencies.In an interview published in The Advance last month, County Judge Richard Cortez discounted the rumors, yet they persist. According to the judge, the interior of the new courthouse is substantially complete, the problems, deficiencies uncovered in the audit fixed, and the county ...