EL PASO ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER

January 14, 2017

This past Wednesday, January 11, at close to the noon hour, Western Refinery sustained a release of what has been identified as sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere near the Lakeside, Ascarate and Bassett neighborhood areas.

According to ABC-7’s reporting of the incident, the event started at 11:43 a.m. and ended at 7:43 p.m. that night. That’s almost 8 hours of potentially toxic chemical release.

During that time, it has been estimated that more than 2,000 pounds of the chemical gas was released into the area and surrounding neighborhoods.

EPISD BOND FAIL

January 13, 2017

This is what happens when you issue a $670,000,000 EPISD bond that does NOTHING to address the QUALITY OF EDUCATION towards El Paso’s unique border students.

When the bond does nothing to support or financially compensate their educators....

DR. NOE puts BARRIO DURANGUITO back on the potential chopping block

January 10, 2017

On December 20, just five days before Christmas in El Paso, City Hall had an energized meeting with 40+ Duranguito advocates of all backgrounds stepping up to the mic to plead the case for preventing City Council from finalizing an arena plan that would displace 150 residents from El Paso’s oldest historical living neighborhood.

The long and short of this continuing novela is that after a drawn out private executive session behind closed doors,

Ethics and Inertia

January 04, 2017

Monday was the first day back to work for Congress and what did several Republicans do behind closed doors?

They planned to strip the Office of Congressional Ethics of it’s powers so they can basically indulge in corruption and law-breaking without threat of ethical oversight.

They want to do what they want, when they want, how they want without the knowledge of those they have been elected to serve...with impunity and an arrogant lack of respect for the laws.

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 5

December 21, 2016

JUD BURGESS aka JAMES NO BOND files ETHICS COMPLAINT against MAYOR and CITY COUNCIL

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 5 and five city leaders meeting behind closed doors even while taking turns is breaking the law...maybe...we’ll see.

I just put Mayor Leeser, Rep. Jim Tolbert, Rep. Cortney Niland, Rep. Peter Svarzbein, and Rep. Lily Límon on notice.

EL PASO ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER

EPISD BOND FAIL

DR. NOE puts BARRIO DURANGUITO back on the potential chopping block

Ethics and Inertia

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 5

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