Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction and as a fiction aficionado; I get a kick out of the ineptitude of government when put on display by the sheer audacity of stupidity. Paul D. Ceglia is a convicted felon who tried to swindle Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg with a bogus claim on the Facebook platform. […]
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2011-2013 HOT Tax Metrics
As most of you already know, the ballpark is supposed to be paid for by the two percent Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) the city has added to the hotel accommodations’ tax. Many of us, including me, argued that the hotel tax would be insufficient to sustain the debt service for the baseball stadium. A reader […]
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City Council Requires Three Representatives to Post Agenda Items
City council yesterday discussed and approved a request for the city attorney to draft a change to the process by how city representatives put items on the agenda. Item 23.2 “Discussion and action to give direction to the City Attorney to develop a resolution changing the rules concerning placing an item on the agenda” was placed by Ann […]
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Ten Inconvenient Truths That Ted Cruz Doesn’t Want You to Know
1. Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz was born in Canada. Although one of the requirements laid out by the US Constitution for being president is that the candidate must be a US “natural born citizen,” the common interpretation is that it means that at least one of the candidate’s parents must be a US citizen by […]
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Cultural Center: Why Should the Taxpayers Pay for It?
On Friday, I shared with you how the cultural center name issue has not been settled yet. I also let you know that I would be addressing the issue of whether the taxpayers should be paying for it. That is the other significant discussion point about the proposed cultural center. The discussions range from the […]
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The Problem With Useful Idiots is the Idiot Part
Yesterday I wrote about Bob Moore’s attempt to create the illusion that Woody Hunt is not the real culprit behind the flag issue. Today, in an extremely rare Sunday edition of my blog I want to point out the idiocy of another useful idiot – Max Powers. A while back ago I exposed Max Powers […]
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An Examination of How Bob Moore Controls Public Perception
For many years, I have been showing you how Bob Moore’s journalistic ethics were dropped by him in favor of working for a public policy agenda that favors his newspaper’s bottom line. Moore’s lack of journalist ethics is so egregious that there are so many examples of them that my blog is in danger of […]
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Woman Seeks Birth Mother
I received a request earlier this week from Lauren Toelle. She is looking for her birth mother and I agreed to profile her on my blog. Toelle was born in El Paso and is searching for any information that anyone may be able to offer her, regarding her birth mother. Lauren provided me with the […]
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Cultural Center: What’s In The Name?
Judging by the comments on my blog and other comments on social media there is much disinformation about the cultural center going on in the many discussions about it. The majority of it lies on the perception of what the voters voted on. In addition, there is an ongoing discussion about whether the taxpayers should […]
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City Releases Public Information That They Denied Me Back in November 2014
I do not know if I have the worst luck or that I’m just the target of the city’s attempt to keep me from receiving information via the Texas Public Information Act. I have shared with you numerous examples of where the information given to me is either contradictory via two sets of open records […]