Check out this promotional video for Torre Centinela: No, it’s not a sci-fi movie about a near future dystopia. That building is being erected in downtown Juarez. The building will house security…
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El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CITY VOTES TO REMOVE FINAL OBSTACLE TO NATIONAL HISTORIC DISTRICT IN DOWNTOWN
Today our City Council voted unanimously for item 32 on the agenda, deleting Section 20.20.080.A.1 of the City’s Historic Preservation Ordinance, which purported to regulate properties that are on the National Register of…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – WORKERS REMOVING FENCE AROUND “ARENA FOOTPRINT” IN DURANGUITO
True to their word, the City of El Paso is in the process of removing the fences blocking access to Chihuahua Street in the former “Arena Footprint.” Workers can be seen constructing…
The Border Chronicle – Bearing Witness Through Art: A Q&A with Artist Roberto Marquez
Roberto Marquez paints a mural inspired by Picasso’s Guernica in the ruins of this iconic fallen bridge at Irpin, Ukraine, on April 21, 2022. (Photo credit: Scott Peterson/Getty Images) In September, the…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – WILL OUR CITY PAY $500/MONTH TO NEEDY FAMILIES FROM TAXPAYER FUNDS?
On October 10 under agenda item 20, our City Council voted 5 to 1 “to authorize City Manager and City Attorney to identify a funding source for $500,000 and create a process…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – WE LOVE OUR BILL OF RIGHTS!
+ We live in an exceptional country, the oldest constitutional republic on earth. One of the reasons why our country is exceptional is because of the ratification in 1789 to 1791 of…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – MEDIA REPORTING OF PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTEST FAILS
Yesterday more than 300 protesters gathered in downtown El Paso to support the Palestinian “resistance” against Israeli “apartheid, colonization, and genocide.” None of their signs or slogans cited the massacre by Hamas…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – THE CITY OF EL PASO’S FAVORITE FIGURE: TRIPLE
The Mexican-American Culture Center was supposed to cost $5,750,000 but it will now cost $16,500,000. Nearly triple. The Children’s Museum was supposed to cost $19,250,000 but it will now cost over $60,000,000,…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – 300 PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS IN DOWNTOWN EL PASO
Today more than 300 El Pasoans voiced their support of Palestinian “resistance” against what they perceive as Israeli “apartheid, colonization, and genocide.” None of the signs or slogans cited the massacre by…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – GROUP CALLING FOR “PALESTINIAN LIBERATION” TO PROTEST TOMORROW, 200 HOSTAGES STILL HELD IN GAZA
More than 1,500 Hamas gunmen crossed into Israel on October 7 and butchered more than 1,400 Jews, including women, the elderly and babies, torturing many of their victims before murdering them, and…