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,…
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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…
El Chuqueño Blog – Barbs along the Rio Grande
By Kent Paterson A pleasant and quiet day prevailed just above the International Dam on the Rio Grande near the spot where Ciudad Juárez, El Paso and Sunland Park, New Mexico converge…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CITY TO REVISE HISTORIC PRESERVATION ORDINANCE, REMOVING FINAL OBSTACLE TO ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL HISTORIC DISTRICT IN DOWNTOWN EL PASO
Item 32 of the City Council Agenda for October 24 deletes Section 20.20.080.A.1 of the City’s Historic Preservation Ordinance, which purports to regulate properties that are on the National Register of Historic…
The Border Chronicle – The Borderlands Are Beautiful: A Podcast with Petey Mesquitey
Subscribe now The road into a sky island in the Arizona borderlands. (Photo credit: Petey Mesquitey) Share “The borderlands are beautiful.” That’s how Petey Mesquitey always ends his weekly show Growing Native…
El Chuqueño Blog – All You Need to Know About Prop 11
From Ballotpedia.com: The measure would amend section 59 of Article 16 of the Texas Constitution to authorize the state legislature to permit conservation and reclamation districts in El Paso County to issue…
The Border Chronicle – On ‘Political Pathologies’ and Practicing Medicine in the Borderlands: A Q&A with Dr. Brian Elmore
Dr. Brian Elmore attending to a patient at Clínica Hope in Ciudad Juárez. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Elmore) Share Dr. Brian Elmore is an emergency-medicine resident physician in El Paso, Texas. He’s…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – EPCC BUDGET AND SALARIES
El Paso Community College was established by the voters of El Paso County in 1969. The Texas Legislature appropriated funds in 1971 and classes began that fall with 901 students enrolled. The…
El Chuqueño Blog – “Two of a Kind’
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