Author’s note: Because of the length of the article, I have decided to divide into three consecutive daily sections starting today. For those that do not want to wait for the series to be published over the three days you can read the entire article using this link. (This post was updated on May 25, […]
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Recapping Pending Issues
I thought today would be a good day to recap some pending and ongoing issues that don’t merit a whole blog post, but nonetheless are important to bring up. Obviously, the most important thing happening next week is the start of early voting. Who you vote for is unimportant as long as you understand that […]
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The El Paso Courts of Inquiry: Nine Years Later
When Theresa Caballero and Stuart Leeds looked for justice for their client via a rarely used court procedure and Judge Richard A. Roman signed the order convening the first Court of Inquiry in El Paso in many years, many in the city were aghast at the two attorneys and a judge who dared challenge the […]
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Indicting a Ham Sandwich
“You can get a ham sandwich indicted”. When I first heard that statement, I didn’t really understand the magnitude of that simple, yet profound statement. Like most people, I have a very simplistic understanding of the legal system mainly drawn from television shows like Law & Order. In 2004, I started to get more interested […]
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County Judge Election Analysis
Now that Election Day is over with there is going to be much discussion about what the causes were of the election outcomes for the various races. Likewise, next election cycle the same “experts” will again pontificate for the local paper about what the outcome will be or what the polls mean when in reality […]
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The Pillar of Society also known as Larry Medina is Expected to be Sentenced Today on Public Corruption Charges
Whether Larry Medina, among others, gets sentenced today, February 19, 2013 as expected is yet to be seen as Larry is such a weasel that he will likely seek to weasel his way out of doing jail time. He already tried prostrating himself before Judge Montalvo at his plea hearing shedding crocodile tears while uttering […]
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Money Orders and the City of El Paso
As you are probably aware by now, I recently sent a money order to the City of El Paso in response to an Open Records Request that, according to their response yielded six DVDs of data. They sent me an invoice for a little over $100 to complete processing my request. Looking forward to the […]
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Taxpayers Funding Political Agendas: Veronica Escobar, A Case Study
A public policy agenda has been in the works in El Paso since at least 1998, if not before. The case Study of Veronica Escobar’s entrance into the political scene demonstrates this. There are two ways to make public policy. The first, the one envisioned by the democratic process, requires building and cultivating political alliances […]
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City Council to Issue $68 million in Certificates of Obligations and Fund DIMS and Project Arriba
Next Tuesday, August 27, 2013, city council’s agenda includes two annual controversial topics and the issuance of $68 million in Certificates of Obligation. Annually the three items have brought forth controversy and therefore it will be interesting to see how the dynamics of the new city council handles them. The first item is the controversial […]
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El Paso Corruption; The modus operandi of the corrupters
My first experience with El Paso corruption came at the hands of an El Paso police officer in the late 1980’s. Sadly, it was the first of many instances of corruption that is so engrained in the community that it is an unpleasant fact, not an exception. Having grown up in Mexico, I was and […]
