Missed opportunity

March 10, 2014

Evidently the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas hosted a seminar in El Paso the other day at the El Paso Independent School District central office.

They presented information about the Public Information Act and the Texas Open Meetings Act.

Unfortunately few of us knew about the event and so did not attend.

What would it have taken for EPISD to have notified the newspapers, television, and radio stations so that more of us would have known about the seminar?  Maybe they did.

Unfortunately many local government employees consider anyone who makes a request under the Public Information Act to be the enemy.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Times circulation–NSFW (not safe for work)

March 9, 2014

This came out of a local magazine published in the 1960’s.

Maybe the Times should consider their alternatives before they have too few subscribers to remain viable.

Up_Your_Circulation

Muckraker

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They gored the wrong ox

March 6, 2014

The El Paso Times wrote a good apology/retraction/clarification the other day.  You can read it here.

As part of a regular series of articles last week they published a biblical verse that was offensive to many.

In the retraction they wrote:

The verse was presented without the context or comment needed for better understanding.

They did the same thing here that they frequently do when they simply act as a media outlet and publish whatever press release that their allies want as though the press release was a news article written by a real reporter.

Will we ever see the Times apologizing to us for the way they publish articles without writing about the multiple sides of an issue?

Muckraker

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Suggestion for the Times

March 1, 2014

A suggestion to the El Paso Times:

Write a story about what has happened to the case where our west-side city representative was under investigation on suspicion of threatening a city employee.

For those of you who don’t know about it, please read this.

The incident occurred last October.  We have heard nothing.

Is this a cover-up?

We deserve better

Brutus

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What’s good for the goose

February 28, 2014

This El Paso Times editorial talked about the recent revelation that the El Paso Independent School District is considering closing some schools.

The Times pointed out that while the EPISD student population is approximately the same as it was 25 years ago, the district has added 3.7 million square feet of buildings in that period of time.

The district tells us that changing population concentrations have been the cause of the building spree.  That is partially true.

The Times insists that the public must be involved in the planned changes.  They wrote “The discussion must start now and must be frank and transparent”.

Frankly

Most of us probably agree with the Times on this.  Frankly we would have liked for the issue of tearing down city hall to have had public involvement and been frank and transparent.

The Times did not call for that.  We know why.

We deserve better

Brutus

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