PRESERVATION TEXAS ADDS EL PASO COUNTY COLISEUM TO ENDANGERED LIST
Preservation Texas announced last week that the El Paso County Coliseum has been added to its 2023 List of Texas’s Most Endangered Places. Former State Sen. Jose Rodriguez and Dr.…
DRAINING THE SWAMP: FOAC COMMITTEE TO AUDIT CITY 380 AGREEMENTS AND NO-BID CONTRACTS
According to the Texas Comptroller, “Chapter 380 of the Local Government Code authorizes municipalities to offer incentives designed to promote economic development such as commercial and retail projects. Specifically, it…
SVARZBEIN CLAIMS TO BE “ACTING MAYOR” WHILE IN ISRAEL, SPENT $12,202 ON SEVEN TRIPS IN 2022
As we now know, former City Rep. Peter Svarzbein traveled to Tel Aviv for five days during his last month of office in order to speak on a panel at…
MAX GROSSMAN: CITY BOND RATING NOT WHAT IT APPEARS
City bond rating not what it appears: Letters to the Editor El Paso Times, Published 6:00am MT May 12, 2023 “Terrell Blodget wrote to this newspaper claiming the recent bond…
PETER SVARZBEIN SPENT $3,193 OF CITY FUNDS TO TRAVEL TO ISRAEL HIS LAST MONTH IN OFFICE
Former City Rep. Peter Svarzbein traveled to from Boston to Tel Aviv on December 4, 2022 and then flew from Tel Aviv to El Paso on December 9, costing the…
CITY HIRING OUTSIDE COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE GAS CARD AND P-CARD USAGE, EXPAND AUDIT
During today’s special session, our City Council heard Chief City Auditor Edmundo Calderon present the same report he presented to FOAC one week ago, detailing the excessive gas purchases by…
CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING ON GAS CARD SCANDAL THIS MORNING AT 10:00AM
Today at 10:00am there will be a special meeting of City Council with only a single item on the agenda: “Discussion and Action on the results of Project P2023-06 City…
EL PASO STATE HOUSE REPS VOTE TO INCREASE VEHICLE FEES TO HIGHEST IN TEXAS
On May 3, the Texas House passed HB 79, which would increase the registration fee for a standard vehicle in El Paso County from $84 to $94, making our fee…
COMPLAINT AGAINST REP. CASSANDRA HERNANDEZ FILED WITH TEXAS ETHICS COMMISSION
El Paso taxpayer Tom Laign has filed a complaint with the Texas Ethics Commission against City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez of District 3 alleging that she advocated against a ballot initiative,…
ADAM POWELL’S REPORT ON GAS CARD SCANDAL
The measure of the character of an elected leader is how he/she behaves when no one is watching, and City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez and former City Rep. Claudia Lizette Rodriguez…