Brutus started off the week with Fireworks and then also that Monday M. T. Cicero wrote Serendipity call the hand of the Times once again.
Approved but not read by Brutus came out on Tuesday. City council is getting in the habit of approving a concept and then letting the city manager negotiate and sign documents without council seeing what was done. I wrote Are you kidding? about how certain elements of the power cabal want El Pasoans to feel better about the city. The floggings will continue until morale improves.
Brutus posted Forgetting your place, about how a city representative took the citizens to task in a column written for the Times. Muckraker followed up with 2b but not really and how the Times wrote another article that covered the part of a topic that their editorial policy wanted us to know about. M. T. Cicero had fun with the editorial page writer at the Times. Dear John was the result. These were posted Wednesday.
Thursday saw Losing our shine from Brutus and Propositions explained, but not how they were published from me. I wondered why if the city needs to publish legal notices in Spanish they don’t use El Diario El Paso. Desdemona sent a piece about how proposition 2 would make the mayor even weaker to Cicero. Another “You’re not voting for the Baseball stadium” Ploy reminded us about how the city says one thing and does another.
Brutus started a series of summaries about the proposed city charter amendments. The posts are cumulative with the most recent one as of this piece being Proposition summaries (4,5,6,7,8,9). He also posted Bad habit that same Friday. He wondered why the city chooses to hide things even when they are inevitable.
The posts from Brutus about the propositions continued on Saturday. If you read the one above you are all caught up with him. In Sorry wrong number he pointed out the the city attorney, The El Paso Times, and The El Paso, Inc. all have used different numbers when talking about what proposition 4 would do to the salaries of the city representatives and the mayor. He suggested that their pay increases should be voted on each time and should not be automatic.
Sunday had another addition to the post from Brutus about the propositions and then I wrote Reporting happened. Somehow a reporter at the Times got a good article published. It just showed again how blatantly the Times applies it’s editorial policy to news articles.
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