An article in the El Paso Times the other day said “… the start of City Council meetings was moved up 30 minutes to 8:30 a.m. ”
The reporter was telling us about new rules that council is making about it’s meetings.
My recollection is that council meetings have been starting at 8:30 AM for years now. I checked agendas back as far as January, 2012 and saw that the meetings have been scheduled to start at 8:30.
As far as I can tell, council did not move the meeting time up 30 minutes. This may be a small point, but to me it points out that what is printed in the Times is not always factual. That may be an understatement.
Some of you may say that I am being petty to comment about this. I believe that the newspaper should be held to a high standard of accuracy. The articles they publish should be fact checked. Errors that slip though should be acknowledged and corrected in subsequent editions.
What the reporter might have meant to say is that since the portion of the meeting that allows the public to comment has been moved from the beginning of the meeting to 12:15 PM, the other business of council will now start at 8:30.
That would have been much more accurate.
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