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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According to an article in The El Paso Times the EPISD board of trustees voted to close Burnett Elementary in a board meeting the other day.
Not being familiar with the situation we don’t know if that is a good idea or not.
We do have a question about the process however.
Did the district inform the public about their intention to close the school?
We deserve better
Brutus
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The city is finally starting to do something about Chelsea pool. The city closed it in 2012, the same year the voters approved building a new pool to replace the closed one.
Take a look at this graphic:
The city’s evaluation committee ranked proposals for the management of the pool construction.
Who do they plan to award the contract to? The firm that was ranked number three.
We deserve better
Brutus
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The city is starting to think about fixing some of our local roads.
We frequently hear that the west side of El Paso “gets more” than other parts of town.
Take a look at this slide:
There are two other slides in the presentation. They list streets in districts other than the west side district (number 1).
The city is thinking about doing work on three streets on the west side of town.
The three streets are all in the Kern Place/Cincinnati area of town.
The rest of the neighborhood streets in the west side will get nothing.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Following up on Children’s hospital fate being discussed, a loyal reader got the folks over at the county hospital to post the video of the December 12, 2017 board meeting.
At the November board meeting there was an item that allowed the children’s hospital new chief executive to make a presentation to the board explaining the children’s hospital financial situation.
That presentation was postponed to the December meeting in order to give the new chief executive a little time to become more familiar with the situation at the children’s hospital.
Unfortunately at the December meeting the topic was moved to the consent agenda and her report was accepted without discussion.
So we still don’t know what is going on.
We deserve better
Brutus
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