News

FBI arrests Bob Jones and two other former NCED officials
By David Crowder

From a public standpoint, the public corruption investigation that has seen nine individuals plead guilty to charges and one indicted began with the April 2006 search warrant raid by three federal agencies on the Eastside headquarters of NCED -- now called Readyone Industries -- and main plant on Allen Bradley.

Posted on October 14, 2008  •  read more »

Public Corruption 101
by NPT Staff

Nine people have pleaded guilty, and one has been indicted. Get up to date on the FBI public corruption investigation, with a summary of events and links to source documents. Also included are archives and links to public corruption cases from around the country for perspective.

Posted on September 5, 2008  •  read more »

El Paso on the stock market
by NPT Staff

Stock prices for some of El Paso's leading companies:

Posted on October 24, 2008  •  read more »

Downed deal: County votes against tax rebates for Foster-Regency mall
By David Crowder

“We’re not doing anything now. There won’t be a shopping center built. Until we get an incentive that we can live with that we’ve requested from the city and county, we cannot go forward. We wish we could but we cannot.” -- Regency's West Miller.

Posted on October 13, 2008  •  read more »

Politics

Moody releases first television ad
Ben Wright

Democratic candidate for the Texas House District 78 race Joe Moody released his first campaign ad today. We post that and the first ad from Republican candidate Dee Margo.

Posted on October 13, 2008  •  read more »

Opinion

The Moody blues
by Ben Wright

The District 78 race is great because the candidates are so different. Voters have a real choice. But last week, the conversation was about a blog.

Posted on October 13, 2008  •  read more »