If County Commissioners were serious about resolving the El Paso Children’s Hospital problems, they could easily do it through UMC’s budget. The County Commissioners recently asked the hospital district (UMC) to update their 2015 budget to remove subsidizing the El Paso Children’s Hospital from its budget. Basically, the commissioners told UMC to stop supporting the […]
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The Tolbert Agenda
Today, I am faced with having to discard the post I had ready to go for today. Instead I am writing a new one because Jim Tolbert undeniably pulled off an unexpected win on Saturday. Tolbert is now the District 2 representative and depending on how quickly the City is able to move he may […]
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Veronica Escobar Adds Vote To City
As you all likely know, yesterday Jim Tolbert was sworn into office and took his seat at the city council chambers. I recently pointed out that Jim Tolbert is an extension of Susie Byrd, who by default is an extension of Veronica Escobar. There are still some who read my blog that believe that I […]
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David Crowder and the Politics of News
The single most important issue that I have been focused on in my blog since its inception is my belief that the high level of El Paso corruption and ineptitude, that has led to one of the highest tax rates, is the local news media. Specifically, editors and reporters who supported the Caballero-Rodriguez-Shapleigh troika that […]
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The Children’s Hospital Scheme They Don’t Want You to Know About
As I wrote yesterday, the Michael Nuñez deposition on September 29, 2015 further bolsters my belief that the children’s hospital scheme revolves around the so-called intergovernmental transfers, or IGTs. This is the little dirty secret that Veronica Escobar and Jose Rodriguez are desperately trying to keep you from finding out about. You see, if you […]
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El Paso Scandals
Over the years I have been developing an online data set of the various scandals that have plagued El Paso for decades. Much of it is corruption related. As I have written previously, the impetus for my blog is Bob Moore’s unethical practices, which happens to be the most important reason that corruption exists in […]
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The Fisher Report Peels the Onion of Corruption
Most of you, if not all of you, are aware of the Ross Fisher Ethics Investigation Preliminary Findings and Advice Report dated February 26, 2016 and released by the City. There is much commentary and speculation about the report and its findings online and, of course, by Bob Moore’s newspaper. The report has already generated […]
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The 25 El Paso Corruption Scandals Of 2015
When Poisoned Pawns was finalized and Bob Jones and other public officials went to jail, some of the city’s officials proclaimed that corruption had ended in El Paso. But did corruption really end? Let’s look back at 2015 and see what corruption looks like in a corrupt city. January 1. The University Medical Center of […]
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Texas Attorney Rules in Favor of the County
As some of you might remember, late last year I submitted an open records request to the County asking for information about how the County arrived at selecting the board members they nominated for the reconstituted Children’s Hospital. In my article, “The Nominating Process for El Paso Children’s Board Appointments” I shared with you the […]
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Selective Coverage by the El Paso Times
As many of you know, the El Paso Times has been focused on Larry Romero and his questionable activities as a city representative. The local newspaper has gone so far as to publish an editorial asking for Romero to step down. You likely know that I am not fan of Bob Moore’s brand of journalism […]
