A step back in time. That’s what last Thursday’s trip to the federal courthouse in McAllen felt like when I went there to cover the A.C. Cuellar/Rick Quintanilla bribery trial. Happens every time I visit the place. It’s just that now I’m 34.5 years older than I was when I first rode the elevator up to Judge Ricardo Hinojosa’s courtroom back in February 1988.I had quit flying full time in 1982 and gone to work for my parents who owned The Advance News Journal at the time. I still gave flying lessons out of McCreery’s, but worked the newspaper business ...