EPISD shift

May 3, 2014

Studying the 1968-1969 El Paso Independent School District personnel directory, I am beginning to understand judge Session’s ruling in Alvarado v. El Paso Independent School District.

The judge’s order is remembered by most of us as the one that caused school busing here in the 1980’s.  Now I see that it also affected personnel, facilities, and curriculum.

The directory lists the employees of the district, including educators and support staff.  Looking at some of the hispanic surnames explains some of the judge’s concern.

The web site genealogy.about.com lists Garcia as the most common hispanic last name.  The district directory lists 35 Garcias with 14 of them being educators (40%)  and 21 being support personnel (60%).

Eight out of the 27 employees with the last name Martinez were educators (30%).

Of the 37 people with the last name Smith, 25 were educators (68%).  Jones came in with 14 listings and 7 educators (50%).

Something got better

Brutus

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The Times loses again

May 2, 2014

According to this article in the electronic version of the El Paso Times our El Paso Chihuahuas beat the Fresno Grizzlies in the first game ever played in the new ball park.

 

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The Chihuahuas unfortunately lost and so did the Times.

They want us to buy their electronic editions but do not seem to care about fundamental things like accuracy and truth.

Do they have any sense of responsibility left?

We deserve better

Brutus

 

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Private club

May 1, 2014

Is our district attorney part of the corruption problem here in El Paso?

If we look at the problems that we have had with our local governments we see that our local district attorney is not involved in the prosecutions.

The word I get is that he will not prosecute another elected official.

I’m trying to find out what has happened with  our west side city representative who back in October was accused of threatening a city employee.  I have been told that the investigation is over and that our district attorney is stalling.

What about the mayor?

According to the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure the mayor of an incorporated city is also a magistrate under the law (title 1, chapter 2, article 2.09 Texas Code of Criminal Procedure).

The code goes on further to specify:

Art. 2.10. DUTY OF MAGISTRATES.  It is the duty of every magistrate to preserve the peace within his jurisdiction by the use of all lawful means;  to issue all process intended to aid in preventing and suppressing crime;  to cause the arrest of offenders by the use of lawful means in order that they may be brought to punishment.

If the police investigation has not been completed at this point we clearly have a problem.  The accusation was made last October.

If the investigation clears the city representative of wrong-doing we have a right to know.

If on the other hand the investigation indicates that a crime has been committed we should move forward to a grand jury.

Our mayor should either let us know that the case is cleared or he should do his duty and bring charges.

We deserve better

Brutus

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