According to a recent article in the El Paso Times the tax increment finance zone “only will exist until the year 2036 or until the cost to build stormwater infrastructure has been met.”
Evidently they can’t build the resort they want because of drainage problems off of the mountain.
Imagine that.
Many of us would just say build it somewhere else if you have to build it.
We deserve better
Brutus
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So which is it?
Is the city attorney retiring, resigning, or being terminated?
If she is retiring as she has said, the six months of salary that the city has agreed to pay her is a violation of the state constitution according to a recent article in the Times.
Resigning would also make the payout illegal.
If however she is being terminated, her contract evidently provides for six months of severance.
Can’t anyone be honest about this?
We deserve better
Brutus
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David K over at Refuse The Juice posted an interesting article the other day. You can read it here.
Many of our readers are under the mistaken belief that newspapers are supposed to be impartial.
It is true that many newspapers are less blatant in their bias than the Times.
Brutus
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Read this on the Sign of Zoro blog.
How can something like this happen?
If responsibility for fact checking is now being done out of town I can see how an out of town person might miss this.
The original picture and the caption had to come from a local person though, or am I wrong?
The Times did print a front page correction the next day:
A file photo on a story about Burnet Elementary School that ran on the front page of Thursday’s edition listed Dori Fenenbock as president of the El Paso Independent School District board of trustees. Fenenbock resigned from the board in August.
Their correction explains that they used a file photo. It does not explain how the caption came about, nor does it say “we regret the error”.
We deserve better
Brutus
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The Times reported the other day that our new mayor is leading an effort to return the city to a five day work week instead of the four day week that they went to under the former city manager.
This is good news.
If they do it we will at least have an opportunity to approach our elected officials after the city council agenda is posted on Thursday afternoon.
In some cases (like this week) the agenda is posted on Thursday afternoon, the city is closed on Friday, and there is a holiday on Monday thus denying citizens the ability to reach out to council members.
This is better
Brutus
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