Opinion by Stephanie Lippke Every magic trick works the same way. The magician makes you watch the hand that's waving. The trick happens in the other one. Elgin is being shown the waving hand. What the Mayor's group is doing In my opinion, Mayor Theresa McShan, Mayor Pro Tem YaLecia Love and Council Member Arthur Gibson have made a choice: rather than defend their decisions, they have made the people asking about those decisions into the story. Council Members Brenda Piña, Li

Elgin already has an interim city manager. That is what makes Wednesday night’s agenda so interesting. On September 3, council went into executive session to discuss City Manager Robert Eads. When members returned, they voted to make Beau Perry interim city manager. Now, just six days later, council is going back behind closed doors. This time, the agenda specifically says members will discuss both the future of Eads and the “appointment and employment of an Acting or Interim

Twenty-two days. That’s how much time passed between Charles E. Lino being terminated as City Manager of Pecos and appearing in a statewide municipal directory as the new Finance Director for the City of Elgin. Elgin hasn’t announced his hiring. His departure from Pecos followed months of controversy over information councilmembers said he knew and failed to disclose. And now Robert Eads, the Elgin City Manager responsible for hiring City employees, is reportedly on indefinit