On March 20, 2026 I submitted a public information request to the City of El Paso asking for “a complete list of approved and pending incentive agreements to lure companies…
During today’s County Commissioners Court meeting under Budget and Finance item 12A, the five-member court discussed whether to increase the salaries of County employees up to 4.0%, effective January 3,…
I didn’t get selected for the District 6 trustee seat for the El Paso Independent School District. It wasn’t because I didn’t bring my best, and it certainly wasn’t because…
Reyes Mata III of El Paso Inc just published an exceptional report documenting the exodus of 8,800 El Paso families to New Mexico between 2019 and 2023. According to Mata,…
We drafted a chart comparing the City’s no-new-revenue tax rate to the adopted tax rate for every fiscal year from 2015 through 2027. When the adopted tax rate is higher…
This past Tuesday, our City Council voted 5-3 to give preliminary authorization for a tax rate of $.809487 per $100 of property valuation, increasing the tax upon the average-valued residence…
On July 15, we reported that the union representing El Paso firefighters was demanding an additional $56 million over the next four fiscal years. Adam Powell of the El Paso…
Initially City staff had proposed a tax rate of $0.783 per $100 of valuation, which would have resulted in an increase of $105 for the average-valued El Paso single-family home…
Dear News Editors and General Managers of Television News Networks, Every August our City Council votes on a budget and tax rate for the next fiscal year, and every August…
El Paso Matters, which we contend is a political machine more than a journalistic media outlet, published a hit piece targeting Arturo Alluin, candidate for City District 8: https://elpasomatters.org/…/el-paso-elections-arturo…/ If…
