Advertisements On November 7, 2020, Lawanna Rivers, a traveling nurse who worked at the University Medical Center of El Paso (UMC) released a video on Facebook where she alleged that El Paso Covid-19 patients at UMC who were “put into the ‘pit’ only leave in body bags.” The video was first reported in El Paso […]
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County Attorney Responds To Our Children’s Open Records Intervention Request
Advertisements As readers may remember, we asked the County Attorney – to intervene on behalf of the El Paso taxpayers – to ask the Texas Attorney General to determine whether the El Paso Children’s Hospital is subject to the Texas Public Information Act. As we previously reported, the El Paso Children’s Hospital is arguing that […]
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Texas Attorney General Accepts Children’s Assertion On Open Records
Advertisements This publication has been attempting to have the Texas Attorney General rule that the El Paso Children’s Hospital is subject to the Texas Public Information Act since April. It is our position that the El Paso Children’s Hospital is a government funded operation that makes it subject to the Texas Public Information Act. The […]
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County Punts Open Records Request To Texas Attorney General
Advertisements On January 12, El Paso Politics submitted an open records request to the county judge and the county commissioners. We asked for all communications sent and received by the government officials about the U.S. Marshals Service jail contract with the County. Readers may remember that the county commissioners wanted to approve the renewal of […]
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UMC Voluminous Personal Messages
Advertisements The leaders of the University Medical Center of El Paso and El Paso Children’s Hospital use taxpayer-funded equipment and services to send and receive “voluminous… personal messages unrelated to official business,” according to documents recently reviewed by El Paso Politics. Are El Paso’s taxpayers well-served when a taxing entity’s leadership spends time exchanging “personal […]
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More Jacob Cintron and Cindy Stout Inappropriate Conversations And Updates
Advertisements In our last article, El Paso Politics shared inappropriate messages between University Medical Center of El Paso (UMC) CEO, Jacob Cintron and El Paso Children’s Hospital’s CEO Cindy Stout that we came across during our review of documents received under the Texas Public Information Act from UMC. As we noted in the previous article, […]
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County Attorney Declines Our Request Seeking Opinion From Texas Attorney General
Advertisements On Friday, May 7, 2021, El Paso Politics received a letter from County Attorney Jo Anne Bernal denying our request that they seek an opinion from the Texas Attorney General’s office to determine whether the El Paso Children’s Hospital is subject to Texas’ open records laws. In the letter, the County Attorney cited the […]
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The County Argues Unfair Competition By Releasing Public Documents
Advertisements On January 12, 2021, El Paso Politics submitted an open records request to the county judge and the county commissioners asking for any documents related to the U.S. Marshals Service contract under which the county jails federal prisoners, most of which are immigrants and many of them asylum seekers. As we reported on January […]
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Special Report: El Paso Children’s Hospital Argues It Is Not Accountable to El Paso
Advertisements The El Paso Children’s Hospital is arguing that it is not subject to the Texas Public Information Act. El Paso Children’s Hospital is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. As a nonprofit, it argues that it is not a “governmental body” subject to the Texas Public Information Act. However, we disagree. Here is why. The Attorney General […]
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Year-End File Cleanup
Advertisements Over the last several weeks I’ve been receiving many requests to update some broken links on my blog. As you may remember, the EPN Blog morphed from the El Paso News Blog after some Russian hackers crashed my site in 2017. The change in the domain name caused many links to break. Fixing the […]
