ARENA QUESTION GOING BACK TO THE VOTERS!
The City Council just voted 5-3 to send the Arena question back to the voters, giving them the opportunity to defund the project and avoid a huge tax increase. Rep.…
ARENA VOTE TODAY!
Today the City will vote under agenda item 48 on an ordinance placing an item on the November 5 ballot rescinding funding for a downtown arena. The item reads: “An…
HERNANDEZ FILES PAPERWORK FOR MAYORAL CAMPAIGN DURING KEY ARENA VOTE
At exactly 12:29pm today, under agenda item 29, City Council voted 5-2 to place an item on the November 5 ballot that would cancel spending bond money for a downtown…
CITY COUNCIL TO LET VOTERS DECIDE IF THEY STILL WANT A DOWNTOWN ARENA
Yesterday the City voted 5-3 to let the voters decide in the November 5 General Election whether to kill the City’s ill-fated project to build an arena in downtown El…
THREE CITY REPS PUT UP ITEM EMPOWERING VOTERS TO SINK THE ARENA
At tomorrow’s Regular City Council Meeting, Representatives Kennedy, Fierro, and Canales are co-sponsoring item 30, which could sink the ill-fated arena project once and for all. The item calls for…
JOYCE WILSON UNHINGED
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…
POWELL: PLAN TO BUILD AMPHITHEATER AT COHEN SITE WILL”LIKELY” KILL DOWNTOWN ARENA
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…
RENARD JOHNSON STILL WANTS A DOWNTOWN ARENA!
Renard Johnson, the Escobar-backed candidate for Mayor who is backed by all the big developers and their bankers and attorneys, wants to “invest” in a downtown arena with your money…
HERNANDEZ VOTES AGAINST 12,500-SEAT AMPHITHEATER, REJECTING $5.4 BILLION IN ECONOMIC IMPACT
Yesterday our City Council voted 6-1, with Rep. Cassandra Hernandez dissenting and Rep. Isabel Salcido absent, to proceed with a public-private partnership to construct a 12,500-seat amphitheater in Northeast El…
PRIVATE CORPORATION TO BUILD 12,500-SEAT AMPHITHEATER IN NORTHEAST EL PASO, ZERO GENERAL FUND DOLLARS
Under Executive Session item EX1 today, our City Council announced a public-private partnership with Notes Live, Inc., a private developer, which will build a 12,500-seat amphitheater at the former site…