As you may already know, KVIA has been reporting about the financial woes of The El Paso Children’s Hospital. Although we do not yet know the full extent of their financial troubles we can infer that it will ultimately involve the taxpayers’ monies. One thing that is clearly developing is how this, is yet, another […]
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El Paso’s Economy is Tanking
Last week I wrote about how the City of El Paso was forced to move monies around on its budget and postpone certain services in order to shore up its budget deficits. The deficit is the result of lower than budgeted sales taxes and other revenues. After that we found out that home foreclosures doubled […]
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Jim Valenti is a Liar and Needs to be Fired
That is right, there is no two ways about it, Jim Valenti has lied to the taxpayers of the community as well as to the elected officials that represent them and as such he has to be fired from the taxpayers’ dole. The issue of Jim Valenti’s email to Carlos Leon that Leon recently released […]
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The Children’s Hospital, UMC and the Ballpark
One of the things that politicians, like Veronica Escobar and her cohorts, use to hoodwink the community is the news media’s inability to provide you with current, relevant and context-based news. This is because of the nature of the ever changing news media personalities that report the news to you. It takes years of understanding […]
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A Few Comments on Jim Valenti
Many of you chastised me for not commenting on the gross bonus issued to Jim Valenti by the hospital district board. The fact is that almost everyone agrees that the bonus is inappropriate and a gross violation of the public’s money. I issued a quick comment on my Twitter feed when the news broke. There […]
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Why did Jaime Abeytia leave?
Many of you already know that Jaime Abeytia is no longer on the public’s dole working for Vince Perez. As some you may have noticed, last Tuesday, August 5, I tweeted that I had confirmed that Jaime Abeytia had left the county. A reader had kindly sent me the tip earlier in the day. The El […]
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Further Proof the Ballpark Will End Up Costing the Taxpayers
The issue that many have about the ballpark is the process by which it was shoved down the community’s collective throats. The process bypassed the normal community discussion that a citywide infrastructure investment should have. Part of the discussion would have been whether the community could afford such an endeavor. The supporters of the ballpark […]
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The UMC Shell Game
Because I had previously written about the Children’s Hospital fiasco and that the rhetoric was a nothing more than a prelude to a county tax increase, notwithstanding the pontificating politicians, it was no surprise to learn that the taxpayer funded hospital was laying off employees. Nothing get’s the attention of the community better then layoffs […]
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Inconvenient Truths and Taxes
For some time now, I have been writing about the economic tsunami that is building up to demolish what little El Pasoans have left in their pockets. When the ballpark was being shoved down the community’s collective throats and the Quality of Life bonds were being sold by the politicians the common theme was that […]
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Your Taxes are Going Up
In case you have not figured it out yet your taxes are going up. As much as Veronica Escobar and cohorts who have been pushing the Ray Caballero inspired public policy agenda centered on downtown revitalization would have you believe that the city is progressing forward; the fact remains that the city’s economy can’t support […]
