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Brutus
Declining birth rate
October 11, 2019El Paso is seeing a declining birth rate like most of the nation.
The county hospital shows these numbers for their first ten months of operation each year:
2017 2,458 births
2018 2,311 births
2019 2,200 births
That’s a 10.5% drop in two years.
Yet we continue to build new schools.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Not Brio, Adagio actually
October 10, 2019In November of 2018 we wrote about the Alameda Brio being late.
We were originally told that it would start running in early 2018.
The Sun Metro web site contained this notice in December of 2018:
The other day we saw this on the Sun Metro site:
It’s getting late in 2019 so they better hurry.
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Brutus
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Trust us
October 9, 2019This is what the bond issue will look like on the ballot:
Do they know what they are going to build?
They have a list of facilities but they put this footnote on each slide:
Amounts listed are preliminary estimates subject to change. Actual use of any approved bond funds
will be determined by subsequent action by City Council.
Do they know how much each building will cost?
No, they have not gone out to bid–they are just guessing. Many of us can remember how that worked out with the ballpark/city hall move.
Can someone send us a graphic of a blank check?
We deserve better
Brutus
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Who are we giving to?
October 8, 2019DavidK over at Refuse the Juice wrote this piece the other day.
It explains a lot about our lack of influence in congress.
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Brutus
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elpasospeak 
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