Donna Snyder was recently invited to be a contributor to the El Paso News.  She founded the Tumblewords Project in 1995 and continues to organize its free weekly workshops and other literary events in the borderlands […]

I was listening to a presentation the other day where two economists were interviewed about the short term future of our economy.

Each was an adviser in  a presidential administration, one democrat and the other republican.

I heard both of these economists, who might properly be categorized as one liberal and the other conservative, refer to tax cuts as “incentives”.

When did government not taking money from us become an incentive to us?

We deserve better

Brutus

Name: Octavio A DominguezOffice Sought: Judge, Criminal District Court No. 1Age: 39Education: BA Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University; JD, SMU Dedman School of LawCurrent Occupation: Deputy Public Defender for El Paso County, Trial Unit […]

Is México really about to raffle its presidential airplane? That’s the question that I keep getting asked when […]

It looks like EPISD is going to sell that last of the 2016 bonds.

Note that they expect to have them paid off in the year 2048.

Today’s 17 year old high school senior will be 45 years old.

We deserve better

Brutus

Name: Abe GonzalezOffice Sought: Judge of the 448th District CourtAge: 36Education: (Proud) Hanks High School Graduate; BA from UTEP, cum laude; JD from University of Minnesota Law School, cum laudeCurrent Occupation: LawyerPolitical Experience: None In […]

Who Rules El Paso? has recently been making the rounds through social media as the primer on El […]

Who Rules El Paso? has recently been making the rounds through social media as the primer on El Paso political power, namely arguing that money buys control of the city. Unfortunately, the book glosses over […]

Who are you currently thinking you will vote for democratic presidential candidate  in the upcoming (March) primary?

Please keep your comments civil.

We deserve better.

Brutus

I hope you enjoy RumpToons No: 171!

Last Saturday I attended a meeting at the Veterans One Stop Shop where a group of Veterans met to discuss a Survey Assessing the needs of the El Paso Veterans. El Paso City/County partnered with […]

Its Saturday.

What’s on your mind?

We deserve better.

Brutus

Satire – I don’t know what it is with Claudia W’hordaz Perez – is she just really stupid, or does she really think rules don’t apply to her? Seriously at this point, she’s kind of […]

Name: Lyda Ness GarciaOffice Sought: 383rd Judicial District CourtAge: 48Education: University of Michigan, BA. University of Texas School of Law, J.D.Current Occupation: Attorney at LawPolitical Experience: I am a single mom of three kids that […]

Yesterday’s EPISD special board meeting that was going to be held to review and potentially modify the superintendent’s contract was cancelled.

Does anyone know why?

We deserve better

Brutus

As expected, Donald Trump is taking a victory lap telling anyone that will listen that he was acquitted […]

Name: Yvonne RodriguezOffice Sought: Chief Justice 8th Court of AppealsAge: 61Education: 1993, Juris Doctorate; 1990, Bachelor of Arts: Major Psychology; Minor Sociology.Current Occupation: Justice of the 8th Court of Appeals – 7years.Political Experience: I have […]

Earlier this month we sent out a request to local Democrat candidates running in contested races for the upcoming March 3 election to respond to a set of questions we posed to them for our […]

Just because I say something it does not necessarily mean I agree with it. There are a lot of bad ideas and things out there, but they exist...like margarine or women all of sudden wearing waist high jeans. But if there is going to be a Democratic US Senator from... Max Powers

You might have received a mailer that invites you to apply for a voting ballot by mail.

I tried this a couple of years ago and learned the hard way.

• My application evidently committed me to voting by mail the entire year
• I voted in the primary by mail
• When I tried to go to the polling place to vote in the runoff I was told that I had to continue to vote by mail
• The problem was that they mailed my primary ballot but did not mail a runoff ballot.
• I had to insist that I be allowed to vote in the runoff election.
• We solved the election judge’s concerns by me signing an affidavit attesting that I had not voted by mail in the runoff
• The process took 45 minutes

Be careful.

We deserve better

Brutus