This from Helen Marshall:
BLOGGING MATTERS!
The El Paso Naturally blog (www.elpasonaturally.blogspot.com) started a campaign on Monday, January 12, to raise awareness about the condition of the huge Mondel pine tree that has served as the city’s Christmas Tree since 1998 when it was donated to the city. http://www.elpasonaturally.blogspot.com/2015/01/save-el-pasos-christmas-tree.html
The blog directed readers to an online petition to save the tree, directed to Mayor and City Council. The story was apparently noticed by at least one El Paso TV station, http://www.kvia.com/news/san-jacinto-christmas-tree-damaged/30692650, which led some listeners and readers to write to their city reps about the situation.
That in turn prompted the City Engineering Department to produce a memo claiming that it was doing everything possible to save the tree. Nothing was said by either the Mayor or City Manager or the City Arborist, or the required Project Arborist, so the City has yet to come clean on this on what happened and why.
http://www.elpasonaturally.blogspot.com/2015/01/city-cover-up-of-christmas-tree-scandal.html
But the commotion led both the El Paso Times and El Diario to put the story on their front pages on Saturday, January 17. http://m.diario.mx/nota.php?id=2015-01-16_d67c04fc
I’d guess that this story is not over; kudos to El Paso Naturally! And let’s take this as a message to El Paso Speak readers and contributors…if we see something wrong, let’s try to figure out how to “give it legs,” create a petition or a letter-writing campaign to let the “Bigs” know that we are watching them and we’re not happy.
elpasospeak 
Thanks for the kudos.
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