- Mexico's major election: Congress, state and local governments
- Predictions abound of massive voter abstention, record protest voting and a victory by the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The election is Sunday (July 5, 2009).
- Reporting 101: Did I let a great scoop on Planned Parenthood get away?
- NPT smelled something wrong when Planned Parenthood abruptly announced its closure. We're digging, and we got a little nibble of something, but we're not there yet.
- Bob Jones cries in pleading guilty to 6 counts; plea agreement puts 10-year cap on prison sentence
- El Paso’s former entrepreneur of the year, Robert E. “Bob” Jones, pleaded guilty in federal court today to six charges at a hearing that went according to script except for two surprises.
- Public Corruption 101: The archives
- Get up to speed on the players and issues with NPT archives and other sources: Stories, primary documents and some reading about public corruption cases elsewhere to provide a little context.
- Bob Jones to plead guilty to new offenses and charges in last year's indictment
- The former CEO of El Paso’s National Center for Employment of the Disabled, Robert E. “Bob” Jones, is scheduled to plead guilty to new and old charges at a hearing in federal court Thursday.
- Critics see Planned Parenthood closure as reason for hope
- As El Paso loses all its Planned Parenthood clinics, its critics think the closures announced Friday are a trend in the right direction.
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Mexico's major election: Congress, state and local governments
Posted on July 4, 2009
Predictions abound of massive voter abstention, record protest voting and a victory by the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The election is Sunday (July 5, 2009).
Reporting 101: Did I let a great scoop on Planned Parenthood get away?
Posted on July 2, 2009
NPT smelled something wrong when Planned Parenthood abruptly announced its closure. We're digging, and we got a little nibble of something, but we're not there yet.
Bob Jones cries in pleading guilty to 6 counts; plea agreement puts 10-year cap on prison sentence
Posted on July 2, 2009
El Paso’s former entrepreneur of the year, Robert E. “Bob” Jones, pleaded guilty in federal court today to six charges at a hearing that went according to script except for two surprises.
Public Corruption 101: The archives
Posted on July 2, 2009
Get up to speed on the players and issues with NPT archives and other sources: Stories, primary documents and some reading about public corruption cases elsewhere to provide a little context.
Bob Jones to plead guilty to new offenses and charges in last year's indictment
Posted on July 1, 2009
The former CEO of El Paso’s National Center for Employment of the Disabled, Robert E. “Bob” Jones, is scheduled to plead guilty to new and old charges at a hearing in federal court Thursday.
Critics see Planned Parenthood closure as reason for hope
Posted on July 1, 2009
As El Paso loses all its Planned Parenthood clinics, its critics think the closures announced Friday are a trend in the right direction.
Proposed 2010 city budget down 1 percent from taxes, fines, fees, and 2.3 percent overall
Posted on July 1, 2009
The proposed El Paso city budget for fiscal 2010 starting Sept. 1 shows a $3.6 million or 1.13 percent decrease in spending from last year’s $315.8 million in local taxes, fines and fees.
City asks police and fire unions to postpone Sept. 1 salary increases
Posted on June 30, 2009
El Paso police and firefighters will be asked to temporarily forego their pay raises in the next fiscal year to help the city balance a budget that will continue to take beating in the national recession.
Troops on the U.S. border? The proposal is little more than political salve, says Border Network for Human Rights director.
Posted on June 30, 2009
"We have people who are entitled to be respected and protected and yes, the Constitution also applies to the border. That is something they don’t want to recognize." -- Fernando Garcia, executive director, Border Network for Human Rights.
Banned as gambling, penny Loteria is on again at Grandview center
Posted on June 29, 2009
Loteria’s back at the Grandview Senior Citizen’s Center now that City Hall has lifted a ban imposed in May on the bingo-like game played with pennies because the Parks and Recreation Department thought it was illegal.
Luther Jones' defense attacks indictment, wants to see search warrant affidavit and meet with witnesses
Posted on June 29, 2009
A routine hearing today in the federal corruption case against former El Paso County Judge Luther Jones and District Clerk Gilbert Sanchez followed a busy week of motions and counter motions pertaining to Jones in what is likely to be a difficult case for the government.
Biz Briefs 6.29.09: Non Profit Connection
Posted on June 29, 2009
Business briefs sent to NPT, posted in chronological order as they come in. Send your news to NPT@epmediagroup.com.
Police Blotter 6.29.09; Child drowns; bank robbery; Socorro capital murder suspect still at large
Posted on June 29, 2009
News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top. Pictured: Murder suspect Ricardo Zuniga, and drugs from CBP bust.
Homicides of El Pasoans about as likely in Juarez as in El Paso
Posted on June 26, 2009
Two killings in the last week and a half of El Pasoans visiting family in Juarez illustrates the impact of the Drug War on bi-national families.
A City Hall tradition: Robinson finds office bare, all files gone
Posted on June 25, 2009
Political transitions can be hard or easy and ugly or nice, and at City Hall, it seems they are rarely nice or easy.
Reyes after Obama meeting: Calls immigration reform a national security issue, disputes White House COS Emanuel's vote count
Posted on June 25, 2009
U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, upon emerging from a meeting at the White House with President Barack Obama Thursday, said he believed the House had the votes to pass immigration reform.
Incrementally preserving the Castner Range status quo
Posted on June 25, 2009
"The committee encourages the Department to enter into an agreement in furtherance of conveyance with eligible conservation entities." -- statement added by U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes to the National Defense Authorization Act, which is being considered by the full House of Representatives this week.
Council pushes ahead with bridge study; O'Rourke tangles with YISD board President Marty Reyes
Posted on June 24, 2009
The El Paso City Council voted 7-1 Tuesday to go ahead with a controversial study of the need for a new international bridge in the Mission Valley area but to consolidate it with a second study of the feasibility of expanding the Zaragosa bridge and the Bridge of the Americas.
Fifth possible swine flu death under investigation; 259 cases confirmed to date
Posted on June 24, 2009
The city of El Paso Department of Public Health is investigating the death of a 59-year-old Northeast El Paso County man, who was recently hospitalized with an influenza-like illness.
Council rejects ban on electronic messages at meetings, public posting agenda items
Posted on June 23, 2009
The El Paso City Council today elected city Rep. Emma Acosta as the new mayor pro-tempore and defeated several proposed changes in the council’s rules of order.
Billions in commercial value kept off tax rolls in Texas because appraisal districts can't get sales prices
Posted on June 22, 2009
“Commercial property is always, always undervalued on the books. Very rarely is it over valued. That is exactly why they’re opposed. This is driven by people who don’t want the commercial sales disclosure.” -- Peter Urrutia, spokesman for the Dallas area's MetroTex Association of Realtors.
Police Blotter 6.22-26.09: Two arrested, main suspect still wanted in killing of Socorro brothers
Posted on June 22, 2009
News and notes from El Paso-area law enforcement, updated as they come in, with most recent on top. Pictured: Murder suspect Ricardo Zuniga.
Biz Briefs 6.22-24.09: SBA loan program; tech for nonprofits
Posted on June 22, 2009
Business briefs sent to NPT, posted in chronological order as they come in. Send your news to NPT@epmediagroup.com.
Another tale from Chilelandia
Posted on June 22, 2009
While the downturn in chile production was most evident in the jalapeno and cayenne segments of the industry, foreign imports are also touching the emblematic New Mexican green chile.
Sacré bleu! El Paso County gets more holidays than the French?
Posted on June 19, 2009
The French observe 11 national holidays, while El Paso County lets its employees stay home 15 days a year, including today, Juneteenth.
