In our last article, El Paso Politics shared inappropriate messages between University Medical Center of El Paso (UMC) CEO, Jacob Cintron and El Paso Children’s Hospital’s CEO Cindy Stout that we came across during our review of documents received under the Texas Public Information Act from UMC. As we noted in the previous article, we […]
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County Attorney Responds To Our Children’s Open Records Intervention Request
As readers may remember, we asked the County Attorney – to intervene on behalf of the El Paso taxpayers – to ask the Texas Attorney General to determine whether the El Paso Children’s Hospital is subject to the Texas Public Information Act. As we previously reported, the El Paso Children’s Hospital is arguing that as […]
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UMC Jacob Cintron And Code Of Conduct
For weeks, El Paso Politics has been reviewing pages of open records from the University Medical Center of El Paso (UMC). Many of the text messages and emails are communications sent or received by UMC President and Chief Executive Officer, Jacob Cintron. Many of the communications we have seen recently are addressed to Cindy Stout, […]
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Texas Attorney General “Looking Into” Children’s Hospital
On May 28, 2021, El Paso Politics received the following message from the Texas Attorney General’s Office about our quest to force the El Paso Children’s Hospital to comply with the Texas Public Information Act. According to the Texas Attorney General’s office, they are “looking into this issue with the El Paso Children’s Hospital and […]
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County Attorney Declines Our Request Seeking Opinion From Texas Attorney General
On Friday, May 7, 2021, El Paso Politics received a letter from County Attorney Jo Anne Bernal denying our request that they seek an opinion from the Texas Attorney General’s office to determine whether the El Paso Children’s Hospital is subject to Texas’ open records laws. In the letter, the County Attorney cited the 2019 […]
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Special Report: Who Funds Journalism At El Paso Matters And Why It Matters
Funding of nonprofit newspapers began to takeoff around 2016, although nonprofit news has existed for decades. The new revenue model of creating news reports from gifts has raised questions about the ethics of producing news from donations. “The ethics of taking grants from foundations and gifts from donors to produce news is still evolving and […]
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Texas Attorney General Gives Children’s Ten Days To Respond
As readers may remember, last month El Paso Politics filed a request with the El Paso County Attorney asking them to request an opinion from Texas Attorney General on whether the El Paso Children’s Hospital is a governmental body for the purposes of the Texas Public Information Act. We believe that the children’s hospital is […]
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UMC Launches Website To Appeal To Voters For $346 Million In Non-Voter Approved Debt
A reader posted a comment yesterday alerting us to a website recently launched by the University Medical Center of El Paso (UMC). The website lays out a case for the $345.7 million in non-voter approved debt that UMC is seeking. On June 27, 2022, the county commissioners authorized the required public notification that UMC intends […]
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Children’s Hospital Seeks to Hide Evidence In Court Hearing Yesterday
The El Paso Children’s Hospital and two doctors went to court yesterday asking to have evidence thrown out in the Saucedo malpractice lawsuit. On August 10, 2020, David and Mariana Saucedo filed a malpractice lawsuit against El Paso Children’s Hospital, Roberto Canales and Rodolfo Fierro-Saucedo over the death of their three-year-old daughter, Ivanna. The Saucedos […]
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The Community Problem Of Media Censorship
El Paso is the second most expensive large city in the nation for property taxes, according to Roofstock, an Oakland-based online rental property marketplace. According to Roofstock, El Pasoans pay an effective property tax rate of 2.13%, second only to Milwaukee. Roofstock used Census Bureau data to reach its conclusions. [1] Historical preservationist Max Grossman, […]
