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• El Paso corruption trial continues with same judge

  —South Texas Chisme

  U.S. District Court Judge Frank Montalvo has denied a defense request to recuse himself and will continue presiding over the corruption case of lawyer Luther Jones and District Clerk Gilbert Sanchez.
  
  Jones, 63, and Sanchez, 42, filed a motion asking Montalvo to step aside. A hearing on their recusal [...]

  Posted: November 29, 2009, 7:31am EST
  

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• El Paso whistleblower gets reward. Finally

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  Jurors have awarded $100,000 to a Fire Department official who blew the whistle on alleged malfeasance, including falsification of training records.
  
  The plaintiff, Alan Parsons, sued the city after his superiors removed him from a supervisory role at the department training academy and reassigned him to headquarters.
  
  Parsons, [...]

  Posted: November 28, 2009, 7:59am EST
  

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• El Paso Medical Examiner provided questionable résumé

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  Nobody in an official position bothered to check the guy's résumé?Dr. Paul Shrode, who for years has fought allegations that he lied on his résumé and is underqualified to be chief medical examiner of El Paso County, finds himself the target of a new state complaint.
  
  The latest to [...]

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:45am EST
  

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• Chávez declining to run for Shapleigh's seat

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  A state Senate seat that has opened up for the first time in more than a decade has only one taker as of Tuesday.
  
  State Rep. Norma Chávez, D-El Paso, bowed out from a possible run for the seat that state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh will vacate after the 2010 [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:48am EST
  

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• Are you surprised? El Paso is 2nd safest US city.

  —South Texas Chisme

  Just don't cross the border.A new ranking shows El Paso moved up to the second-safest large city in the nation even while a vicious drug cartel war has turned Juárez into one of the deadliest cities in the world.
  
  El Paso trailed only Honolulu for the lowest crime rate' [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:39am EST
  

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• The governor's race shuffle -- what they're saying

  —Texas Politics

  State Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso, isn't waiting for an announcement to endorse Bill White for governor, typical of the fast-and-furious reaction to the report that Tom Schieffer's getting out of the race and White may be in. The Hill...

  
  

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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:47pm EST
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• The governor's race shuffle -- what they're saying

  —Texas Politics

  State Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso, isn't waiting for an announcement to endorse Bill White for governor, typical of the fast-and-furious reaction to the report that Tom Schieffer's getting out of the race and White may be in. The Hill...

  
  

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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:47pm EST
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• State Commission on Judicial Conduct suspends 2 El Paso judges

  —South Texas Chisme

  The state Commission on Judicial Conduct on Friday suspended indicted El Paso judges Regina Arditti and Sissy Hernandez.
  
  Both will continue to receive their salaries.
  
  State grand jurors charged them a day earlier with violating a misdemeanor Texas law that prohibits judges from engaging in nepotism. [...]

  Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:24am EST
  

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• El Paso judges indicted

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  A state grand jury indicted two El Paso judges on Thursday, alleging they violated nepotism laws by hiring each other's relatives.
  
  Suspended state district court judge Manuel Barraza and District Court Judge Regina Arditti are charged with one count each of "prohibition applicable to trading," or nepotism. Arditti and [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:12am EST
  

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• Margo has joined the race

  —Vaqueros & Wonkeros

  Businessman Dee Margo has decided to run against State Rep. Joe Moody for the District 78 seat. The chairman and CEO of JDW Insurance told the El Paso Times two weeks ago that he was not interested in the state... [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:39pm EST
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• El Paso Times online poll says bah to Cheney's endorsement of KBH

  —South Texas Chisme

  It's been my experience that responses to the Times poll tend conservative. Right now 53% of 296 votes are saying Cheney's endorsement will hurt Kay Bailey. I voted for 'Yes, the former vice president remains relevant to some GOP voters.' Amusing when Republican icons are viewed as the monsters they [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:05am EST
  

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• 7-year-old El Paso Boy Killed in Juárez

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  The impact of an image or a message sometimes reverberates onward long past it's temporal origins. Burned onto our collective memories, powerful descriptions or photographs have the ability to encapsulate our deepest fears or ambitions.
  
  Regardless of one's perspective the incident portrayed above of [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:20am EST
  

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• El Paso has a new county attorney

  —South Texas Chisme

  A divided Commissioners Court appointed [Jo Anne] Bernal to the job on a 3-2 vote Monday. She succeeds José Rodríguez, who is resigning to run for the state Senate.
  
  The appointment gives Bernal, 48, a springboard to launch her campaign to complete Rodríguez's unfinished term. If she wins election [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:52am EST
  

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• El Paso County Ethics Commission loses another member in a snit

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  The El Paso County Ethics Commission has suffered another loss with the resignation of Luis Garcia, who in a letter to the county judge said he could no longer serve on the panel because its objectivity has been tainted.
  
  He served on the panel for about two weeks before [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:51am EST
  

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• El Paso teachers union wants the new grading policy passed by legislature

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  A local teachers' union might consider moving forward with a grievance it filed in October if it does not soon see changes to a grading policy in the El Paso Independent School District.
  
  Lucy Clarke, the president of the El Paso Federation of Teachers and Support Personnel, said the' [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:48am EST
  

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• Challengers want to seal El Paso District Clerk's defeat

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  Six people have already announced that they want Gilbert Sanchez's district clerk seat, an elected position he has held since 2003.
  
  The abundance of challengers is a direct result of the controversy that has followed Sanchez for the past year. He was arrested in June by the FBI and [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:05am EST
  

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• El Paso District Clerk named in embarrassing lawsuits

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  Two former employees of District Clerk Gilbert Sanchez have filed lawsuits against him and El Paso County, one alleging sexual harassment and the other wrongful termination. [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:19am EST
  

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• Is the El Paso County attorney part of ethics process?

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  County Attorney José Rodríguez on Thursday issued an opinion saying that he is required to provide legal advice to the recently launched Ethics Commission.
  
  On a separate issue, he also offered on opinion that said employees of the county government can run for public office.
  
  The chairman of [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:17am EST
  

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• Jose Rodriguez stops in Austin to promote senate campaign

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  Former County Attorney Jose Rodriguez said Wednesday in Austin that El Paso needs a senator who is willing to mend bridges and heal open wounds. Rodriguez, 61, who resigned his position Sunday to seek Eliot Shapleigh's senate seat, said he... [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:09am EST
  by Zahira Torres

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• Gas tax hike buzz; jet-setting Senate transportation committee chairman John Carona keeps door open for gas tax hike

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  A gas tax hike could be coming for Texas drivers. The El Paso Times covered a meeting of a legislative transportation committee where the idea was discussed: Some legislators concerned about how to pay for new highways in Texas suggested looking at increasing the 20 cents a gallon state fuel tax. [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 4:22pm EST
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• Homophobes rise up against Domestic Partner benefits in El Paso

  —South Texas Chisme

  Armed with 4,293 signatures, a persistent group of citizens decided Tuesday to fight City Hall.
  
  The group filed a petition that could force the City Council to reconsider its decision to offer health benefits to gay and unmarried partners of city employees.You can count on the batsh*t crazy crowd [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 5:03am EST
  

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• Moody rematch?

  —Vaqueros & Wonkeros

  Businessman Dee Margo told the El Paso Times today that he does not have his eyes set on a Senate seat run. But the chairman and CEO of JDW Insurance is pondering a bid for State Rep. Joe Moody's position... [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:19pm EST
  by Zahira Torres

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• José Rodríguez running for Eliot Shapleigh's seat

  —South Texas Chisme

  In his fifth term, El Paso County Attorney José Rodríguez announced on Sunday he will run for state senator.
  
  More here. [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:37am EST
  

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• Court records: City Rep. Rachel Quintana loses 2nd appeal in forgery case

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  EL PASO -- City Rep. Rachel Quintana has lost a second appeal and has one
  left.
  
  Prosecutors charged Quintana with misdemeanor forgery in October
  2007, four months after she took her seat on the City Council. They say she
  forged a document to obtain a Southwest Airlines ticket at [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:46am EST
  

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• U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes aide: No misuse of power in rescue of relative

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  EL PASO -- U.S. Congressman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, dismissed a story in the
  Washington Post that alleged the congressman was the subject of a complaint to
  the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct House regarding a relative
  of Reyes' wife who was kidnapped last year in Juárez.
  
  The' [...]

  Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:44am EST
  

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• Sheriff's Office clerk arrested after allegedly offering to perform oral sex on an undercover police officer

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  EL PASO -- A clerk at the El Paso County Sheriff's Office has been charged
  with prostitution after allegedly offering to perform oral sex on an undercover
  police officer.
  
  The undercover officer, who was working on a
  prostitution sting, started a conversation with Herrera, who allegedly offered
  to perform [...]

  Posted: November 01, 2009, 11:54am EST
  

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• Cross-stitchin’ for Project Valour-IT

  —Conservative Thoughts

  Okay, the rest of my items for the Valour-IT fundraiser auction are up on eBay…

  One of my long-time hobbies is counted cross-stitch. I learned how to do it when I was about 13 years old. We’d just moved to El Paso, where my dad was the new First Sergeant in [...]

  Posted: November 01, 2009, 2:15am EST
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