Yesterday, October 28, 2013 I was pleasantly surprised to get a message from Ms. Irma Lopez, the city’s Public Records Coordinator letting me know that the pending records request that has been held up due to the issue of money orders has finally been released to me. As you will remember there has been a […]
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Why Did Eliot Shapleigh Suddenly Go Politically Quiet?
Something that I noticed about the political undercurrent, once it became obvious that the public corruption investigations were throwing a wider net then the Luther Jones’ political faction, that has been bothering me for a while now is why did Eliot Shapleigh stop being a politician. In the various political functions, as the rumors simmered […]
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Open Records Request and Money Orders Update
As many of you already know last Tuesday city council discussed the city’s process for open records. Lilly Limon put item 14B on the agenda for discussion. The item was posted as “Discussion and action on the process used to provide open records requests.” As I have stated numerous times before; I have never had […]
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There is Rage in the Community
There used to be questions. Then there was anger. And now, there is outright rage in El Paso. The little unassuming yappity dog that the baseball ownership group was hoping would unite the divided community around the incoming baseball team seems to have instead lit the fuse of rage. A dog better known for its […]
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El Paso Triple-A Team Name: Lessons in Marketing Success and Failures, Mostly Failures
And there you have it, the El Paso baseball team is the El Paso CHIHUAHUAS. If you thought the horde had any respect for El Pasoans by now I’m sure you’ve put that notion completely out of your mind. Whether you were hoping for the Aardvarks, or the Buckaroos or you just hated all of […]
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Open Records Request Update
As you may remember, on October 9, 2013 I posted “Is the City Playing Games with Open Records?” In that post, and the previous one; “Money Orders and the City of El Paso” I described the two issues I was having with the city in fulfilling my open records requests. The first issue is that […]
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Judge Richard Roman Opines on Steve Ortega Filing
As you all already know Steve Ortega has filed a challenge to being questioned by Stephanie Townsend Allala under oath about what responsive records he may have in regards to her open records request. You may have also noticed that many people are offering their interpretations of the legal nuances about the ongoing legal battle. […]
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Woody Hunt on Public Corruption
I guess I’m just an idiot and I really don’t understand what corruption is because I can’t get over the text message shared by Armando Rodriguez with El Paso. “We can get marisa [sic] to run interference before that board gets taken over. Month to month crisis management and legislative advocacy. 13,500 per month, 6 […]
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David Karlsruher Makes My Point About the Local Media
Of all the people that read my blog, it is David Karlsruher that finally made me understand why the local media is such a disaster. We have all figured out why the management types at the local media allow mediocrity, or in the case of the El Paso Times masquerading as a newspaper outright create […]
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Tell Me Who You Hang Out With and I’ll Tell You Who You Are
Dime con quién andas y te diré quien eres is an old Mexican proverb. Basically it states that those you choose to frequent with reveal who you truly are. Criminal conspiracy investigations normally include a matrix of who the connections are between individuals in order to see how the criminal enterprise is structured. Those who […]