As with everyone, Covid-19 has touched our family, this time close to home. A couple of weeks ago, Laura tested positive for the pandemic virus. At work on Friday, she was notified that the patient she had seen the day before had a household member that had tested positive for the virus. She had been […]
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How I Lost My Teaching Job by Chuck Taylor
Now and then we will upload material that future contributors or readers have sent us. The goal is for contributors to post their content but I am open to uploading for them on a case-by-case basis. I asked Chuck Taylor if he could share some of his El Paso stories. Taylor is a prolific writer […]
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The Missing Latino Voice
The United States is the second largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, in terms of population. We are constantly told that the Latino vote is rising and yet it bubbles up but never asserts itself. Latinos are present in America, but our voices are muted in the national dialog. The reason for this is that […]
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The Top 10 Reasons Veronica Escobar Should Not be Elected to Congress
For some time now there have been rumors of an opposition dossier compiled against Veronica Escobar that was making the rounds among certain political circles. It is not news that opposing candidates compile dossiers to use against their opponents. In El Paso, most oppos are nothing more than a few newspaper clippings and maybe a […]
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Susie Byrd and the Stench of Corruption
It is likely that many of you, if not all of you reading this today, knows that the El Paso Independent School District Board voted yesterday to initiate an audit of Susie Byrd’s political activities. Byrd, and her cohort, Veronica Escobar have taken a page out of Donald Trump’s many scandals and have labelled the […]
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Political Cronyism and Veronica Escobar
Politicians are driven by the need to be reelected. A politico will perform at the minimum threshold needed to be reelected. That is the nature of the political beast. Accepting this inconvenient reality, then it makes perfect sense on why the new County Judge for El Paso is Ruben Vogt, Escobar’s Chief of Staff. El […]
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Ron Acton Lays It All Bare
Last week, the El Paso Inc. published a question and answer session with Ron Acton. The article, by David Crowder, should put to rest the notion that the El Paso Children’s Hospital will be self-sustaining without the funding from the taxpayers. Acton, the outgoing chair of the children’s hospital, clearly laid out how the taxpayers […]
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The Piti Vazquez Problem for Veronica Escobar
As you likely know, Veronica Escobar is running for Congress to take over the seat being vacated by her political ally, Beto O’Rourke, who is going after Ted Cruz’ seat. Escobar, like O’Rourke, evolved from the Ray Caballero-Jose Rodriguez-Eliot Shapleigh political faction. Escobar and cohorts have been using the Poisoned Pawns corruption scandal to build […]
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El Paso Childrens Hospital Scheme Part 2
Last week, KVIA’s Andrew Polk (August 27, 2016) reported that the El Paso County Commissioners and the University Medical Center board were talking about “possible problems like the tax rate and the El Paso Children’s Hospital situation.” As I have been pointing out ever since the children’s hospital was proven to be financially unfeasible, the […]
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El Paso, We Have a Problem
Many are celebrating the politics of Donald Trump, including many in El Paso. As dangerous as the Trump politics are to the nation and to the world, El Paso will feel the ramifications the worst. This is not about politics, NAFTA or even immigration. Simply, it is about the economic reality of El Paso. So, […]
