It is difficult to keep up with the administrative chaos and financial mismanagement in our local school districts, but we do our best. Today we learned that Pablo Barrera, Socorro ISD Trustee…
Category: Blogs
The latest from the border blogosphere.
El Chuqueño Blog – What Did You Expect?
From the El Paso Times: The El Paso City Council took a timid step toward having developers and homebuilders foot the cost for expanding El Paso Water services to the farthest edges…
The Border Chronicle – Reporter’s Notebook: Water, War Zones, and the Search for Peace on the Rio Grande
Subscribe now This photo I took near Laredo of a tower looking over the Rio Grande. Share I’m on the road in south Texas, but I thought I’d post some pictures (all…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – $386M CANUTILLO ISD BOND PASSES, TOTAL COMMUNITY DEBT INCREASES TO $10.7B
This past Saturday, the voters of Canutillo ISD narrowly supported a $386.2 million school bond, even though the Board of Trustees is so incompetent that they cannot balance their budget. The school…
The Border Chronicle – CBP Wants to Blast Bright-as-Day Lighting into Critical Wildlife Areas: A Q&A with Laiken Jordahl
The map provided by CBP of installed and planned lighting for El Paso county in Texas Subscribe now Since 2019, Customs and Border Protection has been installing stadium lighting along the federally…
Border Report – Will Mexico’s stepped-up migration enforcement last?
(NewsNation) — Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border are down from a record high in December and a crackdown by Mexican authorities is a major reason why. Through the first two months…
El Chuqueño Blog – How Owners of Professional Sports Teams Dodge Taxes
Here’s an interesting story from ProPublica.com about how the owners of professional sports teams escape income taxes: The IRS has launched a campaign to examine whether wealthy taxpayers are violating the law…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CANUTILLO ISD REPEATEDLY VIOLATES TEXAS PUBLIC INFORMATION ACT
Chapter 552 of the Texas Government Code gives the media and public the right to access records from any government entity within the State, including school districts. We recently filed requests for…
The Border Chronicle – The Border Wall’s Newest Makeover in the “Concertina Poster City”
Subscribe now Removal of concertina wire from the border wall in Nogales in April. (Photo credit: Tom Vaughan/FeVa Fotos) Share I had to do a double take. The razor wire, which had…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – THE EPISD IMPLOSION
Claudia Lorena Silva of El Paso Matters reports that student enrollment in EPISD is at its lowest level since the 1960s. The district also suffers from a severe budgetary crisis, a hopelessly bloated administration,…