[[{“value”:” Yesterday the City voted 5-3 to let the voters decide in the November 5 General Election whether to kill the City’s ill-fated project to build an arena in downtown El Paso….
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El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – MORE THAN $47,000 IN CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS MISSING FROM CASSANDRA HERNANDEZ’S CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORT
[[{“value”:” It is campaign season and the candidates were required to submit their July 15 finance reports by yesterday, covering the period from January 1 through June 30. City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez,…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – THREE CITY REPS PUT UP ITEM EMPOWERING VOTERS TO SINK THE ARENA
[[{“value”:” At tomorrow’s Regular City Council Meeting, Representatives Kennedy, Fierro, and Canales are co-sponsoring item 30, which could sink the ill-fated arena project once and for all. The item calls for “Discussion…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CITY CFO ROBERT CORTINAS IS THE BEST CANDIDATE FOR CITY MANAGER
[[{“value”:” We just learned that from a pool of 80 candidates for the position of City Manager, the Mayor and City Representatives have narrowed their search to four finalists, all of them…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – KENNEDY RUNNING FOR MAYOR!
[[{“value”:” City Rep. Brian Kennedy of District 1 has just announced that he is running for Mayor of El Paso and that Commissioner Iliana Holguin of Precinct 3, the most fiscally responsible…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – JOYCE WILSON UNHINGED
[[{“value”:” We previously reported how former City Manager Joyce Wilson, who launched our City into a 19-year spending binge, lashed out against the current City Council for refusing to fund a half-billion-dollar…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CYNTHIA BOYAR TREJO, CANDIDATE FOR DISTRICT 4, VOTED ONLY ONE TIME!
[[{“value”:” Joe Molinar is City Representative of District 4. He served honorably in the United States Marines and then in the El Paso Police Department, including as a homicide detective, before retiring…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – AUDIT REVEALS CITY MISHANDLED NUMEROUS CHAPTER 380 AGREEMENTS WITH DEVELOPERS, LOSING MILLIONS
[[{“value”:” A new audit reveals the City’s Economic & International Development Department lost millions of dollars because of systemic failures in its handling of Chapter 380 Agreements with developers and did not…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CITY COUNCIL APPROVES AMPHITHEATER IN NORTHEAST EL PASO ON 4-3 VOTE
[[{“value”:” Today under agenda items 38 and 39, City Council voted 4-3 to provide $30.6 million in incentives to Notes Live Inc., which will construct an amphitheater on the site of the…
The Border Chronicle – The Border Chronicle’s Third Annual Summer Reading List
A Sonoran vaquero, and one of his faithful hounds, at the end of the border wall near Sasabe, Arizona. (Photo by Melissa del Bosque) Monsoon Special 20% Off As far as heat…