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May 09
When I first stumbled across a campaign contribution from Bain Construction to Steve Ortega while reviewing Ortega’s financial disclosure it stood out to me for three reasons. First, it was because instead of an individual’s name it was a company’s name. Second because it did not have the standard “LLC” of a company that is …
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May 08
You won’t be reading about this in the El Paso Times because it involves Bob Moore’s favorite golden boy; Steve Ortega. Had this been any other mayoral candidate you can expect it would have made front-page, above the fold “breaking news”, a few days before the election. But alas it involves Steve Ortega and there …
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Mar 19
It is no secret that the news media is going through reorganization as the platforms of the Internet have liberalized news sharing from concentrated and centralized corporate delivered systems to citizen driven information exchanges. Blogs have begun to replace the news conglomerates much to the chagrin of the El Paso Times. It is also no …
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Mar 07
My recent blog began the process of connecting the dots between individuals and non-profits being used to push forward a specific public policy agenda. It is important to note that public perception needs to be managed by the political cabal in order to keep the rabble-rousers at bay. As part of their modus operandi they …
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Feb 10
In a County overflowing with corruption scandals you would think politicians would be more careful about who they hire at the taxpayer’s expense. Unfortunately in El Paso the politicos love to publically castigate those accussed of corruption while pounding their chests proclaiming that they are not corrupt. All this while making backdoor deals to funnel …
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Aug 16
Witnesses in the contempt trial of El Paso defense attorneys Stuart Leeds and Theresa Caballero Thursday slammed the media, specifically the El Paso Times, alleging the newspaper regularly vilifies the attorneys tainting their reputation in the community. “It was a concerted effort by the Times. They painted me and Ms. Caballero as criminals. If they …
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May 03
Yesterday at about four in the afternoon the El Paso Times published an article titled; “El Paso lawyer in DA primary wants inquiry into allegations against Jaime Esparza”. Within half an hour the article by Times’ reporter Diana Washington Valdez had been pulled from the Internet. This action by the El Paso Times raises many …
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May 16
The Dee Margo Affair
Opinion
by Martín Paredes
May 16, 2013
On May 8, 2013, KVIA reporter, Matt Dougherty shed more light on El Paso Police Officer Alberto Machorro’s road-rage incident with Dee Margo back in September of 2012. Some have speculated that this incident led to Margo’s reelection loss to Joe Moody. Was this incident a conspiracy? As with all conspiracies the evidence is circumstantial, …
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