[[{“value”:” Mayor Renard Johnson spent over $1.5 million on his mayoral election, running on a promise to lower our property tax, fix our streets, and lure large businesses to El Paso. If…
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The Border Chronicle – We Need Your Help Now More Than Ever
A Sonoran vaquero with pup at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. (Photo credit: Melissa del Bosque) Subscribe now Dear Border Chronicle subscribers, We need your help now more than ever. Vast swathes…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – EPISD TRUSTEE CALL: “THE FORCES OF DARKNESS, CORRUPTION, AND SELFISH AMBITION HAVE WON”
[[{“value”:” Tonight, after about 2.5 hours of public comment with scores of speakers supporting Superintendent Diana Sayavedra, the Board of Trustees voted 4-2 to force her resignation, with Daniel Call and Valerie…
The Border Chronicle – Upside-Down World: Climate Change and the Border-Industrial Complex in the Trump Era
Subscribe now This article is a collaboration between The Border Chronicle and TomDispatch, a great outlet which has been looking at U.S. foreign policy, the military industrial complex, the “forever wars,” climate…
El Chuqueño Blog – El Paso is a Small Town
Today’s front page headline of the dead tree edition of our English almost-daily newspaper is “Five new restaurants to try in El Paso”. The story in the right hand column is titled…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – SIGN UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT TO PREVENT HANANY FROM TERMINATING SAYAVEDRA TOMORROW!
[[{“value”:” Her Royal Highness, Empress Hanany, is again spearheading an effort to terminate the employment of Diana Sayavedra, the most talented and capable EPISD Superintendent in a generation. The Empress failed to…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – EPISD FAILS TO PROVIDE LINK FOR PUBLIC COMMENT FOR JUNE 3 MEETING
[[{“value”:” Trustees Leah Hanany and Jack Loveridge are convening another Special Meeting of the EPISD Board of Trustees, for June 3 at 4:00pm, to try again to fire and replace Superintendent Diana…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – GONZALEZ IS MIDLAND CITY MANAGER BUT CONSULTS FOR TWO OTHER TEXAS CITIES
[[{“value”:” Less than five months after he was fired by our City Council and paid nearly $890,000 in severance, Tommy Gonzalez was hired July 11, 2023 as City Manager of Midland with…
El Chuqueño Blog – Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes”
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El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – EPISD TRUSTEE CUELLAR ANNOUNCES “WE’RE NOT GONNA RAID THE FUND BALANCE,” TEACHER LAYOFFS IMMINENT
[[{“value”:” EPISD is facing a deficit of $33.8 million in FY 2026, including $3.2 million for reopening Lamar Elementary. The Emperor of the Board, Leah Hanany, has absolutely no plan to avert…