I was at El Paso City Council yesterday for most of the public comments, and even had a crack at the podium myself. So, did I crack open the champagne last night? Nope. Not yet. I'm still waiting on the Mayor to decide which way he is going to vote!
I'm all for the Downtown Ballpark. I know, I'm telling you something you didn't already know. I've not had any opinion for or against it. HA! I crack me up!
I wrote a blog yesterday about why I chose to downplay my coverage of the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in my newscasts. Today, all the talk is about how NBC didn't cover the moment of silence held at the White House and in New York, but instead chose to concentrate on Kris Jenner's breasts.
I wrote blog about City Reps Emma Acosta - my city rep - and Eddie Holguin when they said that artwork that will be installed along the Alameda rapid transit corridor is offensive to Hispanics and they don't want to see it installed. Now, they want City Council to fire the Seattle-based artists who developed the "offensive" art.
Last year, during the height of the fight over domestic partner benefits for El Paso city employees, the church that led the charge against those benefits, the Word of Life Church, came under fire for meddling in politics. Churches can't do that. And they shouldn't. But it has nothing to do with the IRS rules against them doing that. It has to do with God and free will.
For those of you who don't know why the Texas Education Agency is telling the El Paso Independant School District what to do, it's because the district's former superintendant Lorenzo Garcia cooked up a scheme to lie about TAKS test scores and cheat some kids out of not only taking the TAKS test, but an education altogether. Ok, now that you know the background, here is the latest...
So much has been written about the Triple A baseball coming to El Paso. Hopefully, this will quiet some of the ugliness surrounding baseball in the Sun City.
El Paso and Fort Bliss got some exciting news today - The President of the United States is coming back to the Borderland.
Earlier this morning, City Rep. Eddie Holguin stopped by the Mike and Tricia studio for a little one-on-one time with me and the Big Guy. Why did Mr. Holguin come to KISS FM? Well, I'll tell ya...
Yes, you read correctly. A task force formed by the city's biggest school district to show people that it's learned it's lesson after it's former superintendant bilked taxpayers out of half a million dollars on a contract for his former girlfriend AND bilked who knows how many kids out of an education with a grade fixing scheme designed to line his pockets with bonuses, actually thought it was a super idea to hold it's first meeting in a place that required x-ray vision to see what was going on.
Former El Paso County Commissioner Willie Gandara, Jr. is going to have his day in federal court next month to tell us all he is a drug trafficker.
This morning during one of my newscasts, I went off on a rant that focused on City Representative Eddie Holguin. I got a very interesting phone call about it later in the morning...
