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Property owner opposition said to kill El Paso historic district including Duranguito
UPDATE, Jan. 22: An El Paso attorney maintained Friday that plans to have a historic district downtown that includes the Duranguito neighborhood are now effectively dead since a majority of property owners in the area have come out in opposition to it.
Mark Osborn of the Kemp Smith law firm represents (on an unpaid, pro bono basis) numerous downtown property owners who say they weren t consulted about the proposed district, and he claims that state historical officials were misled into believing there was no one opposed.
Osborn told ABC-7 that the federal regulation governing the creation of historic districts says one cannot occur if more than half of the property owners oppose the plan, which is the case in this instance with over 100 signing written objections that have been submitted to state and federal officials.
January 22, 2021
Hospital stonewalls release of COVID numbers, even as situation improves Written by Geoffrey Plant on January 22, 2021
After peaking two weeks ago, Grant County’s coronavirus infection rate appears to be on the decline, and markedly fewer new positive test results were reported here over the past week.
That’s likely good news for Gila Regional Medical Center, which saw an influx of COVID-19 patients over the past couple of months as the virus surged in New Mexico. However, leadership at the county-owned nonprofit hospital continues to refuse to make public statistical information that would give an indication of how severely the pandemic is affecting the facility, and the tens of thousands of people who live in the community it serves even in the face of a District Court action by the Daily Press.
Hospital denies formal ask for COVID details Written by Geoffrey Plant on December 2, 2020
Through its legal counsel, Gila Regional Medical Center refused Monday to honor a formal Inspection of Public Records Act request filed by the Daily Press on Nov. 23 without providing a required written status letter within three days of receiving the request.
Separately, however, the hospital updated the newspaper this week regarding conditions at the facility as COVID-19 numbers continue to rise in Grant County.
The New Mexico Department of Health replied in a timely manner to a similar IPRA request from the Daily Press, indicating it would respond within a 15-day limit set out in state law.
Daily Press sues hospital for COVID numbers Written by Geoffrey Plant on December 14, 2020
The Daily Press filed a legal complaint in Grant County’s Sixth Judicial District Court today seeking to compel Gila Regional Medical Center to comply with New Mexico’s Inspection of Public Records Act. The hospital has repeatedly refused to release information about the current occupancy of the hospital, how many of those patients suffer from COVID-19 and other anonymous statistics that the newspaper maintains are in the community interest during the most severe public health crisis the state has ever faced.
“Every week, I read up-to-date COVID hospital admissions statistics in other newspapers from around New Mexico, often paired with specific pleas from local hospital administrators related to how adherence to state public health orders would make their lives easier,” said Daily Press Publisher Nick Sei