[[{“value”:” We previously reported how former City Manager Joyce Wilson, who launched our City into a 19-year spending binge, lashed out against the current City Council for refusing to fund a half-billion-dollar…
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The latest from the border blogosphere.
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CYNTHIA BOYAR TREJO, CANDIDATE FOR DISTRICT 4, VOTED ONLY ONE TIME!
[[{“value”:” Joe Molinar is City Representative of District 4. He served honorably in the United States Marines and then in the El Paso Police Department, including as a homicide detective, before retiring…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – AUDIT REVEALS CITY MISHANDLED NUMEROUS CHAPTER 380 AGREEMENTS WITH DEVELOPERS, LOSING MILLIONS
[[{“value”:” A new audit reveals the City’s Economic & International Development Department lost millions of dollars because of systemic failures in its handling of Chapter 380 Agreements with developers and did not…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CITY COUNCIL APPROVES AMPHITHEATER IN NORTHEAST EL PASO ON 4-3 VOTE
[[{“value”:” Today under agenda items 38 and 39, City Council voted 4-3 to provide $30.6 million in incentives to Notes Live Inc., which will construct an amphitheater on the site of the…
The Border Chronicle – The Border Chronicle’s Third Annual Summer Reading List
A Sonoran vaquero, and one of his faithful hounds, at the end of the border wall near Sasabe, Arizona. (Photo by Melissa del Bosque) Monsoon Special 20% Off As far as heat…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – POWELL: PLAN TO BUILD AMPHITHEATER AT COHEN SITE WILL”LIKELY” KILL DOWNTOWN ARENA
[[{“value”:” Adam Powell of the El Paso Times made a stunning statement today in his report on the amphitheater that will be built at the Cohen site with private funds: “Though city…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CASSANDRA HERNANDEZ LOANS $35,000 TO HER OWN CAMPAIGN
[[{“value”:” We reported previously that the January 15 campaign finance report of Cassandra Hernandez shows that she raised $0 as of the end of 2023. It also shows that that she loaned…
The Border Chronicle – Unbuild Walls: A Podcast with Silky Shah
Share Activists protest outside a UK immigration detention center in November 2022.(photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images) Share In her classic utopian science fiction novel The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le…
The Border Chronicle – Fix the Asylum System, Protect Human Rights: A Podcast with Adam Isacson
A cross marks the place where a man died trying to swim across the Rio Grande to Texas from Piedras Negras, Mexico. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein via Getty Images) Subscribe now In…
El Paso Taxpayer Revolt – CASSANDRA HERNANDEZ STILL DREAMS OF A DOWNTOWN ARENA (PAID FOR BY US)
[[{“value”:” Last week’s El Paso Inc includes an opinion essay by City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez, who thankfully has only 199 days left in office. She is the last remaining elected representative anywhere…