Since news consumers started navigating towards the internet and especially social media for their news, the demise of newspapers was just a matter of time. The internet has disrupted news delivery like it has for the taxi industry with share-ride services or Amazon disrupting shoppers’ habits. News professionals blame the lack of stable revenue streams […]
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Children’s Hospital Attorneys Successfully Hide Damning Evidence In Malpractice Lawsuit
On January 19, 2022, the judge overseeing the Saucedo malpractice case against Roberto Canales, the El Paso Children’s Hospital and others issued an order, that in essence, hides important information from the public about what may have contributed to the negligence that led to the death of Ivanna on August 31, 2019. One of the […]
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History Shows That El Paso City Council Recall Petitions Always Fail – Here Is Why
Most recently, a recall signature drive was launched against Joe Molinar after the city council reprimanded him for harassing a female city staff member. The recall of Molinar failed after the deadline to submit the required signatures passed without signatures being submitted. Last week a notice of intent to recall Cassandra Hernandez was filed by […]
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Special Report: El Paso Children’s Hospital Argues It Is Not Accountable to El Paso
The El Paso Children’s Hospital is arguing that it is not subject to the Texas Public Information Act. El Paso Children’s Hospital is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. As a nonprofit, it argues that it is not a “governmental body” subject to the Texas Public Information Act. However, we disagree. Here is why. The Attorney General Opinion […]
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Children’s Hospital Blocking Key Deathbed Testimony In Saucedo Case
As a reminder: words in blue are links to articles providing greater context. Attorneys for El Paso Children’s Hospital, Roberto Canales and the other defendants in the malpractice case over the death of Ivanna Saucedo filed court documents this week asking that the judge block the deposition of Dr. Thomas Mayes who is on his […]
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El Paso University Medical Center To Issue $400 Million In Public Debt: Veronica Carbajal Votes Yes
This article was updated on June 16, 2022 at 16:41E to add UMC Board of Managers Agenda. See below. On Tuesday, the University Medical Center of the El Paso Board of Managers held a board meeting. Among the items for discussion were the issuance of certificates of obligation. Texas law gives public entities two options […]
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Children’s Hospital Visited By Investigators And Executives Resign
Correction: This article was corrected on July 5, 2021 at 8:50E to correct the title for Melissa Campos. According to an El Paso Inc. report by David Crowder this weekend, the El Paso Children’s Hospital was visited by the Joint Commission in a surprise visit. As El Paso Politics has been reporting, the children’s hospital […]
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Texas Attorney General Accepts Children’s Assertion On Open Records
This publication has been attempting to have the Texas Attorney General rule that the El Paso Children’s Hospital is subject to the Texas Public Information Act since April. It is our position that the El Paso Children’s Hospital is a government funded operation that makes it subject to the Texas Public Information Act. The children’s […]
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Editorial News: New Political Consulting Firm Formed in El Paso
As readers may have noted we have made significant changes to our publication over the last couple of days. The El Paso Politics, the El Paso News and Border Politics are now one publication – the El Paso News. Over twenty years of covering El Paso is now archived under the El Paso News. El […]
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The El Paso Children’s Hospital Financial House of Cards
El Paso Children’s Hospital has a very troublesome history in El Paso. El Paso deserves a children’s hospital. But at what expense? Having a children’s hospital is not the remedy because ultimately the job of a children’s hospital is to cure the children and not to hurt them more by medical failures or the quest […]
