EL PASO POLICE OFFICERS FALLEN IN THE LINE OF DUTY
We visited the Police Headquarters at 911 N Raynor Street this morning and were moved by the display honoring 34 officers who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty.…
MAYOR JOHNSON STACKS TIRZ 5 BOARD WITH DECK PLAZA SUPPORTERS
Tomorrow our City Council will vote under agenda items 6 and 7 to reappoint Deborah A. Zuloaga and Arlene Carroll to the Board of Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone 5 and,…
ARE TAX INCREMENT REINVESTMENT ZONES (TIRZs) GOOD OR BAD?
WHAT IS A TAX INCREMENT REINVESTMENT ZONE? The Tax Increment Financing Act is in Chapter 311 of the Texas Tax Code. According to the Texas Comptroller, tax increment financing is…
HOUSTON CITY COUNCIL TO VOTE ON REGULATING TIRZS
Houston, like most major cities, has journalists with the requisite skills for investigating complex financial matters and the time and patience to conduct open records requests for key documents. As…
CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO KILL TIRZ 10A!
It happened on D-Day and slipped past all our local media without a single report. On June 6 our City Council voted 8-0 to eliminate Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone #10A…
CONSTRUCTION BEGINS IN TIRZ 13, THE LARGEST CORPORATE HANDOUT IN EL PASO HISTORY
Vic Kolenc of the El Paso Times and the Staff of the El Paso Inc have both published reports announcing that Paul Foster and his business partner Lane Scarborough have…
THE GREAT TIRZ 13 RIP-OFF
This coming Tuesday, City Council will vote upon changes to two tax increment reinvestment zones: TIRZ 6 and TIRZ 13. There are seven agenda items listed under item 25 regarding…