The November 6, 2014 editorial in the Times spoke of the fact that our former EPISD superintendent is now out of jail.
The Times wrote “Garcia’s criminal enterprise — steering a $450,000 no-bid, little-work contract to his mistress, implementing one of the nation’s worst school cheating schemes — was facilitated by a complacent school board.”
Later they wrote “But EPISD’S failures, and other recent El Paso corruption cases, must be a constant reminder of the need for an informed, engaged citizenry.”
I agree. Part of the process of having an informed citizenry is having a newspaper that provides such information to it.
Our post EPISD purchasing pointed out that our current appointed board of managers has approved allowing our current superintendent to may buy board purchases of up to $250,000 each year for each vendor he chooses to do business with.
The Times says the prior board was complacent. Is this board now to be called complacent?
And what about the Times? Complacent?
We deserve better
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elpasospeak 
There is no doubt that the Times is complacent. They had an obvious typo — “resliliency” — in the bold headline of a guest column by our state senator yesterday. The mistake appeared in multiple places on their website, always big and bold. They still haven’t fixed it. So much for quality control.
The Times is in the unique position of being able to find fault in the management of other organizations, while it ignores its own failings.
Joe Muench is now trying to convince us that he is concerned about transparency in government. His focus was on the process for evaluation of the city attorney’s performance.
That’s humorous because the Times has largely ignored a potential, brewing conflict of interest related to parties interested in purchasing the Asarco property. Muench buried a reference to it in the middle of his column.
Muench spent far more words on the issue of the city attorney’s performance evaluation than on a possible transaction involving millions of dollars and a conflict of interest involving one of the Times’ untouchables. Was it buried in the middle of a column so they could say they didn’t ignore it?
The Times has not only lost touch. It has also lost credibility.
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