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Category: Blogs
The latest from the border blogosphere.
The Border Chronicle – Fighting for the Gulf of California
Hundreds of people march toward Mexico City’s Zócalo in support of environmental protections in the Gulf of California on January 29, 2025. (Photo credit: Nico Manzano) This article is the second in…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – COUNTY VOTES 4-1 TO ISSUE $54 MILLION IN CERTIFICATE OF OBLIGATION DEBT WITHOUT VOTER APPROVAL
[[{“value”:” Like greedy pigs at the trough, our County Commissioners Court just voted 4-1 under agenda item 9C to issue a certificate of obligation in the amount of $54 million. Commissioner Butler…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – LIST OF 96 RECIPIENTS OF CAR ALLOWANCE CITED IN CITY AUDIT
[[{“value”:” The City’s current Vehicle Allowance Program Policy was implemented under City Manager Tommy Gonzalez on August 31, 2015 and has never been updated. Chief City Auditor Edmundo Calderon published his audit of the policy on…
The Border Chronicle – Border Chronicle: Weekly Roundup March 21
Ask an Expert: Austin Kocher As promised, immigration expert Austin Kocher has answers for some of your most confounding immigration questions. We sent Austin your questions and he chose three of them…
The Border Chronicle – Border Theater Goes Binational
Mexican National Guard officers patrol at a high point of El Nido de las Aguilas in eastern Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico, on March 5, 2025, on the Mexican side of the…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – COMMISSIONER HOLGUIN ON CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION
[[{“value”:” “I have always felt that we should limit the use of certificates of obligation to emergency projects where we maybe don’t have the time to wait for the time that it…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – EL PASO COUNTY EMPLOYEE SALARIES, MARCH 2025
[[{“value”:” Here is a list of El Paso County employee salaries, dated March 2025. 382 of them are paid over $100,000 per year plus benefits. El Paso County Employee Salaries_March 2025Download “}]] Read…
The Border Chronicle – Uncanny Rio Grande Valley
Fernando A. Flores. (Photo by Steven Ray Martinez) Subscribe now Broken satellites lie in junk heaps alongside refrigerators and mattresses. Libraries have been shuttered and books banned. A changing climate has pushed…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CARY WESTIN HIRED AS BUSINESS CONSULTANT FOR EPISD
[[{“value”:” We are pleased to report that (Ret) Col. Cary Westin has signed a contract with El Paso Independent School District to serve as a business consultant, starting April 2. We asked…