Last Tuesday, at the city council meeting, Cortney Niland told voters that she will not follow the rules set for city council meetings. Her outburst came during the discussion for agenda item number 33.1, which Niland added to the agenda, asking for council to resend its rule prohibiting the use of telephones and other devices […]
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Donald Trump Pivots on Immigration
I am sure much to the surprise of many Donald Trump supporters it appears that Donald Trump is now having second thoughts about his deportation force and his stance on immigration. As you likely know, Donald Trump’s platform on immigration is building a wall on the US-Mexico border and creating a deportation force to deport […]
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Peter Svarzbein Misusing City Resources for Personal Gain
There was a recent controversy on an El Paso historical Facebook page and an El Paso website over the misappropriation of a picture of Chicos Tacos. The picture, apparently taken from the website and posted on the Facebook page resulted in the temporary banning of an individual. Looking at the back-and-forth comments it soon became […]
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UMC and Children’s Taxes
As you likely know, El Paso taxpayers are bracing for yet more taxes as the County, EPISD, YISD, UMC and other taxing entities look to shore up their failed budgets on the backs of the El Paso taxpayers. Since I do not have children, nor any taxable property in El Paso, I have decided to […]
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Bob Moore and Self-Serving Commentary
Let’s play a little game today. Let’s assume for this post that the State of Texas has mandated that all government business must henceforth be done via email. For example, if you need to ask a question about your property taxes, or to pay them you must do so via email. That goes for all […]
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USA Swimmers Prove American Exceptionalism Disconnect
The United States invented mass marketing and news media manipulation. The US has become very adept at controlling the worldwide narrative about each country and the United States’ place in it. Many US citizens have a worldview based on a distorted record created by a news media that pushes forth the ideal of American exceptionalism that […]
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A Little Geography Lesson and the Olympics
I nearly fell out of my chair when I heard the news reporter happily state on air that the first Olympics in Latin America were about to get underway. I chalked it up as just another graduate of US geography lessons. However, as the Olympics played on, I kept hearing statements on the news media […]
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El Paso County by the Numbers 2016
There is much controversy about the salaries that Veronica Escobar, Vince Perez and David Stout voted for themselves recently. Carlos Leon and Andrew Haggerty voted against the raises. Veronica Escobar technically voted against giving herself a raise, but it remains my contention that she did so knowing in advance that she had the votes to […]
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Safest City Except for Slaves
The El Paso leadership loves to tout that El Paso is one of the safest cities in the nation. As I have documented many times before, it is a lie based on dubious accolades and more importantly, on El Paso prosecutors and law enforcement pretending that if one element of a crime was committed outside […]
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Nazi Scientists in El Paso and the Immigration Issue
It never ceases to amaze me how many individuals really have no understanding as to the prominent role El Paso has played in history, especially in the geopolitics of the world, even more so in US-Mexico relationships. El Pasoans, and others, have a view that the El Paso-Cd. Juárez region is nothing more than a […]