Just when I think that government cannot get any stupider, some government bureaucrat once again proves me wrong. Politics makes for stupidity as evidence by NASA’s latest reaction to a directive from the Obama administration. As you all know, the US government has proclaimed that Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine is not conducive to Russian-US […]
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Tax Increase in the Works for Children’s Hospital
As you may already know, KVIA has been reporting about the financial woes of The El Paso Children’s Hospital. Although we do not yet know the full extent of their financial troubles we can infer that it will ultimately involve the taxpayers’ monies. One thing that is clearly developing is how this, is yet, another […]
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All of These Years I Have Been A Fool
I have been completely wrong! This morning I realized that I have been wrong about the ballpark, and everything else. What’s even worse is that I have been wrong about Susie Byrd, Beto O’Rourke, Steve Ortega, and Joyce Wilson. As if that wasn’t enough, I have been wrong about Foster and Hunt. Oh, and I […]
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El Paso’s Economy is Tanking
Last week I wrote about how the City of El Paso was forced to move monies around on its budget and postpone certain services in order to shore up its budget deficits. The deficit is the result of lower than budgeted sales taxes and other revenues. After that we found out that home foreclosures doubled […]
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Carlsbad Radiation Reminds Juarez Residents of Yonke Fenix
In the last couple of weeks, buried deep in the news, there have been a few reports about a radiation leak that occurred in New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad. Two radiation releases have been acknowledged by officials as of yesterday. Mexican officials are expected to meet with a team of US Department […]
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City Council Moving Monies to Pay Off Debt
And so it begins. Since the ballpark fiasco hit the airwaves, many of those opposed to the ballpark argued that the revenue projections produced by the city were too optimistic. In essence, many of us argued that the taxpayers would end up paying for the ballpark and not the hotel occupants as the city and […]
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News Media Fails Malaysia MH370
Ever since the Internet started changing how news is delivered to us the news media has been trying to adapt. The coverage of the Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight clearly shows that the news media has a long way to go. The Internet has become the delivery vehicle for on-demand and up-to-the-minute news cycle that many […]
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Another Example of the El Paso Drug Plaza
For a while now I have been giving you many examples of the nexus of drug trafficking and El Paso’s rampant corruption. In yesterday’s newspaper there was a story by Vic Kolenc titled; “El Paso branch is Wells Fargo’s busiest in the world”. Kolenc’s article adds another significant data point to my argument that the […]
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Malaysian Airlines MH370: The Human Loss
It has been twelve days since Malaysian Flight MH370 disappeared along with 239 souls on board. Like everyone else I am wondering what happened. As a pilot, I am curious as to what led to the aircraft’s demise. Unfortunately, without finding the aircraft it is very difficult to ascertain what led to its disappearance. The […]
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Latest City Filing Against Stephanie Townsend Allala
Last Monday, the City of El Paso through its outside law firm, filed another brief with the Third Court of Appeals asking that Townsend Allala’s quest for the release of emails through her open records request be dismissed by the court. The city, through the taxpayer-funded lawsuit being handled by Denton Navarro, Rocha, Bernal, Hyde […]