Great news! The El Paso Times in their Wednesday, April 24, 2013 edition published six full pages of “Legal Notice” to the citizens of El Paso. Three were in English and three in Spanish. I thank the Times.
Brutus has been writing about the proposed city charter amendments and has commented that he would like to see the actual text of the proposed change in addition to the ballot language that the city has been publishing. Now he has it. We will wait to see what he thinks.
Wait. Those six pages do not appear to be available in the on-line edition of the Times. Advertising is handled differently between the two editions. Could it be that the city had to pay for the publication and the Times was the beneficiary?
The city is required by state law to publish this information. There is nothing wrong with them paying the Times and the Times making a profit.
What I do question is whether the city also published the notices in El Diario de El Paso. If they did then I applaud everyone involved.
If they only paid one paper, wouldn’t it make sense to put the English portion in our English language newspaper and the Spanish portion in the Spanish one? Maybe there is some legal issue here and both sets of notices needed to be in the same newspaper. I doubt it. In fact I wonder if the city is even required to publish them in Spanish, not that I have a problem with them doing it.
Is it possible that the city just wanted to give more money to the Times to keep them happy?
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Government (local, state and federal) only have to designate one print media (newspaper) as the “official” paper where legal notices will be posted. There is no requirement to post legal notices in every newspaper in a community.
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