One of the most telling indicators of when someone is lying to you is the lack of specificity to the elements of the story they are telling you. As you all know, on Sunday a convoy of individuals attempting to paint the issue of immigration as an “invasion” of the United States drove through El […]
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Claudia Ordaz Sworn In Despite Complaint Filed
Yesterday morning, at the beginning of the city council meeting, Claudia Ordaz was sworn into represent District 6. As I tweeted on the weekend, a complaint was filed, challenging Ordaz’ eligibility to hold office, on Monday morning. The complaint was filed by community activist Salvador Gomez with the municipal clerk’s office. I received a copy […]
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Advertising Killed the News
The common them around the decline of the news media industry is that it is the result of the Internet. However, it wasn’t the Internet that started the decline of the news media, rather the decline of news started when advertising revenues started to dictate what was newsworthy and what wasn’t. Many of you know […]
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City Issues Press Release About Townsend-Allala Appeal
This City of El Paso issued a press release about an Appeals Court ruling on the pending case by Stephanie Townsend Allala in regards to emails that have not been released. Below is the press release. I have posted the court documents for your review. The links follow the press release. Press Release August 4, […]
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I Got My Water Bill
My blog post on “Trash Bin Economics” resulted in many emails letting me know that I have no clue about city economics. Much of the language used to describe how wrong I was, is unprintable on my blog. However, suffice it to write that many of you were angry. The gist of the arguments made […]
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An Alternative to Intrusive Social Media
Today I am excited to introduce you to a new social media platform that I believe will solve the dissatisfaction many of you feel about Facebook. Mexus is not out to replace Facebook as the dominant social media platform but rather Mexus is looking to make social media what it was intended to be – […]
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Inconvenient Truths and Taxes
For some time now, I have been writing about the economic tsunami that is building up to demolish what little El Pasoans have left in their pockets. When the ballpark was being shoved down the community’s collective throats and the Quality of Life bonds were being sold by the politicians the common theme was that […]
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The Children’s Hospital Timeline of How We Got Here
On March 13, 2007, the Thomason Hospital Board of Managers voted six to one to ask County Commissioners Court to hold a special meeting to put a $120 million hospital district bond on the November 6, 2007 ballot. Dr. Jesus Arturo Castro Sandoval cast the sole vote against the bond proposal. Veronica Escobar told the […]
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Lavandose Las Manos: Why You Can’t Hold Politicians Accountable
There is a saying in Spanish that epitomizes the reason why politicians cannot be held accountable. Lavándose las manos, basically means washing my hands of things that I don’t want to deal with. That is the case with the State of Texas. The Texas legislature has deemed it illegal to accept corporate campaign contributions yet […]
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The UMC Shell Game
Because I had previously written about the Children’s Hospital fiasco and that the rhetoric was a nothing more than a prelude to a county tax increase, notwithstanding the pontificating politicians, it was no surprise to learn that the taxpayer funded hospital was laying off employees. Nothing get’s the attention of the community better then layoffs […]