Author: William Blum During the Clinton administration, the sentiment has been proclaimed on so manyoccasions by the president and other political leaders, and dutifully reiterated by the media, that the thesis: “Cuba is the only non-democracy in the Western Hemisphere” is now nothing short of received wisdom in the United States. Let us examine this […]
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TIF’s and Nothing But TIF’s
Author: Theresa Caballero TIF’s made simple. There is a lot of confusion over the TIF’s. What are the TIF’s and what ramifications do they have on our tax bills? TIF is short for Tax Increment Finance District. Last year the mayor told city council he wanted it to create two TIF districts, TIIF #2 and […]
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Let Your Voice be Heard
Author: Karen Slaton Tomorrow each and everyone of us could be contributors to a significant chapter inhistory. We could raise our collective voices to right wrongs. We could say, “Enough is enough!” to corruption and violence. We could improve education and we could strongly support our state and our nation. We could…but most of us […]
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Why El Paso Needs a Strong Two-Party System
El Paso is the only major Texas city that does not have a strong two-party system in place. The Democratic Party still controls most of the local races here. Why is that? San Antonio used to be a one-party city like El Paso but that changed in the 1990’s. The Bexar County Republican Party started […]
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Political Bribe Takers Beware Part II
Author: Katherine LeChat Editor’s Note: Because of the nature of the author’s employment, the author has requested that their real name not be used. This is part 2 of a two part series. The previous installment talked about the 13 federal and state indictments recently handed down in San Antonio. The indictments included current and […]
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Political Bribe Takers Beware
Author: Katherine LeChat Editor’s Note: Because of the nature of the author’s employment, the author has requested that their real name not be used. This is part 1 of a two part series. Part 2 will appear in tomorrow’s issue. San Antonians are still reeling from the shock of having 13 federal and state indictments […]
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The Truth and Nothing But the Truth
Author: Theresa Caballero Every other week we are told that the mayor is in Washington D.C. or in Mexico City onbusiness. Lately, the explanations for the trips to Washington D.C. are that the mayor is getting federal grant monies “for us.” No one asks what grant monies? How much? No one asks the mayor to […]
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Diversity, the Stagnation of Society
The “Diversity in the Media” awarded to the El Paso Times editor recently has focused attention on the stagnation of US society. “Diversity”, a noun pointing out that someone is different, focuses on the one thing that the American society has been trying to distance itself from for centuries now. The US Civil War arguably […]
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The Water Lie
Most of us remember what we were doing the morning of September 11, 2001. This writer was on her way to the county court house ready to go into trial. I was representing an eighteen year old girl from Kansas who was charged with running drugs across the border. My trembling client and her bereft […]
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A Resounding NO to Briones
Author: Martin Paredes Greg Freyermuth, on his radio talk show, KTSM 690AM brought up a novel approach to taking back control of local government. Today is the 3rd day of early voting for the November 5 elections and it is still not to late to take control of future politics in El Paso. Freyermuth’s solution […]