The following is my opinion:
The El Paso Times published a front-page article today (March 17, 2013) about the first person convicted in one of the public corruption scandals that the Times has chosen to cover.
The guy pleaded guilty to doing some rotten things. It appears that he did not go to prison. It looks like he became a stool-pigeon and the general government may have let him off the hook.
I am glad the Times chose to cover the issue. The article was informative. It was news. It was also pious, judgmental, and condescending.
The article was biased throughout.
As an example, they wrote “His surroundings demonstrated that he’d come down in the world since he’d left El Paso. His office is in a small, humble building next to a vacant grain elevator and across from the Bexar County Detention Center. The area is dotted with bail-bonds businesses, taco stands, TV and refrigerator-repair shops and “No Trespassing” signs — not exactly the milieu of a big-city power broker.
I guess businesses might be ok but the Times thinks bail bondsmen are pretty low.
I guess restaurants are ok but taco stands are pretty low.
I guess some repair shops are ok but TV and refrigerator ones are pretty low.
I guess the Times thinks that anyone who has a job working for the government is pretty important. That might explain some obvious things that they are overlooking.
I would appreciate it if the Times would stick to the facts and let the readers draw their own conclusions.
The Times has an editorial page for this kind of commentary.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Cato
elpasospeak 
I wonder if a move is underway to evict all the bail bondsman offices currently located in downtown El Paso. Maybe that, too, is part of the downtown redevelopment plan. Given the emphasis on new bars and clubs and the ball park, which will serve a lot of beer, I’m thinking that bail bondsmen might be in greater demand than ever downtown.
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and Raymond Tellez was a “saint
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That’s just another reason why the local fish-wrap has to practically give away their product.
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