On March 19, 2003, the Five Points Development Association hosted a mayoral candidate’s forum at Cappetto’s. In attendance that day were then-mayoral-incumbent Ray Caballero, who arrived late, and contenders Joe Wardy, Ray […]
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The Shepard Dossier: Cathedral High School, Sexual Abuse And The Diocese Of El Paso
Editor’s note: The following is from a dossier compiled by Joseph P. Shepard starting on February 6, 2004. Shepard passed away last month. The dossier was sent to us anonymously. Unless specifically […]
Visions Of A Central Park For El Paso
Much of the controversies in El Paso’s public policy agenda can be traced back the notion that El Paso has a “vision” for greatness. The Chihuahua’s ballpark was to be the catalyst […]
The Politics of Water And Woody Hunt
Author’s note: This article is necessarily long because breaking it up into smaller components loses the context that is important to it. We are providing a brief summary below for those who […]
Philanthropy: The Case of The Community Scholars
Editor’s note: as a reminder, phrases in blue are links to supporting articles. Click on them for more detail. In a previous article we laid out how philanthropy is used by the […]
Project Arriba – How Tax Dollars Are Used For The Wealthy’s Public Policy
During the October 7, 2002, El Paso Commissioners Court meeting, a group, generally known by many in El Paso as EPISO, was present asking commissioners for $350,000 in tax dollars. Its representatives […]
Who Benefits From Chucopedia’s Censorship?
In this next article in the series, who speaks for El Paso? we continue exploring how the community is manipulated into accepting the status quo using Chucopedia and Debbie Nathan’s reporting as […]
Censorship in El Paso: The Debbie Nathan Factor
Author’s note: this article begins a series exploring who writes El Paso’s narrative, where we explore how censorship controls what the community hears. Debbie Nathan is a journalist who has written for […]
The El Paso Political Power Rise of Paul L Foster And Alejandra de la Vega, Part 2
On September 23, 2020, El Paso Politics introduced readers to Paul L. Foster and how he rose to power in El Paso. As readers may remember, El Paso Politics is exploring the […]
The Strange Story of Richard Nagell, John F. Kennedy and the State National Bank of El Paso
“Bank robber, ‘Manchurian Candidate’ linked to JFK assassination probe” read the headline. The Los Angeles Free Press article describes how “a rangy man with a vertical scar on his forehead strode into […]
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