The public seems to know something that our county hospital board does not.
The county hospital administrator announced that he would not renew his contract somewhere around October of last year. They successfully have stalled the effort to replace him and just gave him a four month extension.
On the other hand the site designed to gain public support to keep him looked like this the other day:
It shows 68 signatures after six months.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Attention to detail is evidently a characteristic that has been abandoned at many levels of government.
Take a look at this slide from a TxDOT presentation made to city council:
March 21, 2016 was a Monday.
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Brutus
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This page from the city’s web site tells us a lot:
Each department has a website link, except “Communications and Public Affairs”.
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Brutus
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That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles, as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected…
This original and supreme will organizes the government, and assigns to different departments their respective powers. It may either stop here, or establish certain limits not to be transcended by those departments.
The government of the United States is of the latter description. The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?
Chief Justice John Marshall in Marbury v. Madison, 1803.
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This article in El Paso Inc. highlights situations where city officials do not make themselves available to the news media.
From the article:
El Paso Inc. was unable to reach Mack directly, but she responded by email to a question about contacts between the city and Uber.
Further:
Last week, El Paso Inc. sent emails asking about the enforcement issue to Mayor Oscar Leeser, city manager Tommy Gonzales and Assistant Police Chief Michelle Gardner, who is responsible for enforcing the vehicles for hire ordinance, but received no response.
The article was a comprehensive piece about the disparity between the way the city treats cabs and Uber.
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Brutus
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elpasospeak 
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