The El Paso Times today chose to make it’s headline article today about city council deciding to spend 139 million dollars to make changes at our airport.
They relegated their articles about city council voting for a property tax increase and council voting to release the ballpark emails to the B section.
I guess we know what they think is important.
Freudian slip?
They also wrote in a section titled “Insight on the Budget”:
“What it means: Homeowners in El Paso will have to pay the city an average of $841.80, or $283.37 more than last year.”
I’m not their editor but I think that they meant $28.37.
Then again maybe they have decided to be honest and the $283.37 number is a fair projection of what will happen to our taxes with all of the debt we are taking on.
No, wait. Honesty is a word that does not often come to mind when thinking about the Times.
I think “sloppy” is the word I am looking for.
Muckracker.
elpasospeak 