As we recently reported in late September, eleven-year-old Jessie Limas died at El Paso Children’s Hospital after surgery. Limas’ mother, Nancy Limas, a Texas Registered Nurse, detailed several instances of what she alleges were failures of the medical staff at the children’s hospital that led to the death of her child. We have now become […]
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Week In Review For January 20, 2023
Welcome to this edition of the El Paso News Week in Review for the week of January 20, 2023. In this week we look at who was behind secretive mailers on the November elections. We look at the latest on the case against Patrick Woods Crusius, the death of El Paso Police Chief and a […]
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Court Of Appeals Scheduled To Hear Arguments Over Children’s Evidence Hiding
On Thursday morning, the Texas Eighth District Court of Appeals will be holding oral arguments over evidence that the El Paso Children’s Hospital is trying to keep from the public. As we reported back on January 27, 2022, the El Paso Children’s Hospital successfully convinced Judge Selena Solis to seal a court document in a […]
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Amicus Brief Arguing That Peer-Review Be Limited To Protect Patients Filed In El Paso Children’s Hospital Case Before The Texas Supreme Court
As we previously reported, the Texas Supreme Court had provided the El Paso Children’s Hospital and the other defendants until Thursday of last week to submit a response to the Court on the ongoing malpractice litigation over the death of the daughter of David and Mariana Saucedo. The controversy before the Court is whether a […]
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Guest Editorial: Time to get real about Property Taxes & Public Hospitals
For too long – many of El Pasoans have gone unnoticed, unprotected, and have been taken for granted. I left El Paso, the town that welcomed my family from Mexico and gave them the chance to live the American Dream, after high school in search for better opportunities. But when I came back, I found […]
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When Did Planning For The UMC Cancer Center Begin?
Tucked within the University Medical Center of El Paso’s (UMC) non-voter approved bond request is a request for a cancer center. According to UMC’s June 27 presentation to the county commissioners, they are requesting $78.9 million for a cancer center from the $345.7 million on non-voter approved bonds pending before county commissioners. The question is, […]
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UMC Launches Website To Appeal To Voters For $346 Million In Non-Voter Approved Debt
A reader posted a comment yesterday alerting us to a website recently launched by the University Medical Center of El Paso (UMC). The website lays out a case for the $345.7 million in non-voter approved debt that UMC is seeking. On June 27, 2022, the county commissioners authorized the required public notification that UMC intends […]
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Special Report: Who Funds Journalism At El Paso Matters And Why It Matters
Funding of nonprofit newspapers began to takeoff around 2016, although nonprofit news has existed for decades. The new revenue model of creating news reports from gifts has raised questions about the ethics of producing news from donations. “The ethics of taking grants from foundations and gifts from donors to produce news is still evolving and […]
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Operation Hold The Line – How El Paso Spawned Today’s Failed Immigration Strategy
The following is an in-depth analysis into Silvestre Reyes’s Operation Hold the Line that led to today’s official immigration strategy of “prevention through deterrence”. It is a strategy that failed then and continues to fail to address the problem of irregular migration. Not only did it fail to deter undocumented migration into the United States, […]
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Children’s Hospital Attorneys Successfully Hide Damning Evidence In Malpractice Lawsuit
On January 19, 2022, the judge overseeing the Saucedo malpractice case against Roberto Canales, the El Paso Children’s Hospital and others issued an order, that in essence, hides important information from the public about what may have contributed to the negligence that led to the death of Ivanna on August 31, 2019. One of the […]
