EL PASO TIMES SUBSCRIPTIONS DECLINE TO 4,412, DROP 13.6% OVER PREVIOUS YEAR
Much less than 1% of El Paso adults care to subscribe to our daily newspaper, which has only 3,587 print subscribers and 224 digital subscribers as of July 25, 2025.…
GROSSMAN ARRESTED ON MISDEMEANOR ASSAULT ALLEGATION (CASE DISMISSED DECEMBER 3)
*The case against Max Grossman was dismissed December 3. ADAM POWELL, EL PASO TIMES, SEPTEMBER 5, 2025: “Max Grossman, a UTEP professor and outspoken critic of local government, has been…
KVIA INTERVIEW WITH MAYOR AIRED ON ABC-7 XTRA, ANOTHER TAX INCREASE PLANNED FOR FY 2027
On August 22, Andrew Polk of KVIA and Reyes Mata III of El Paso Inc conducted the first-ever journalistic interview Mayor Renard Johnson, who has a long history of evading…
REP. ALEJANDRA CHAVEZ RECEIVES $2,500 FROM MARGOS AND ORTEGA AFTER VOTING TO INCREASE PROPERTY TAX
According to her campaign webpage, Alejandra Chavez “is committed to exploring options for property tax relief.” However, during the recent budget discussions she did not make a single proposal that…
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TAX HIKES FROM CITY, COUNTY, AND UMC WIPE OUT BENEFIT FROM INCREASED SCHOOL TAX EXEMPTION
We now have the effective tax figures from all five local taxing entities for FY 2026 and are the only media outlet to report them. The City is increasing its…
POLK AND MATA CONDUCT FIRST JOURNALISTIC INTERVIEW WITH MAYOR, PREDICTS ANOTHER TAX INCREASE FOR FY 2027
Andrew Polk of KVIA and Reyes Mata III of El Paso Inc conducted the first journalistic interview of Renard Johnson since he became Mayor of El Paso on January 7.…
COUNTY VOTES 4-1 TO INCREASE PROPERTY TAX BY $137 ON AVERAGE
We all knew a massive County tax increase was coming because four of five members of the Commissioners Court are tax-and-spend liberals who would rather waste our hard-earned money than…
MOORE BOWS TO MAYOR IN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, FAILS TO PRESS HIM ON BROKEN CAMPAIGN PROMISES
When Mayor Renard Johnson decided to give an exclusive media interview to discuss his first six months in office, he did not go to Adam Powell, Lesley Engle, or Julia…
30 EL PASO HOTELS FAIL TO REMIT $2.5M IN HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX
Last month we cited a City audit dated March 6 revealing that 10 hotels failed to remit $1,121,530.45 in hotel occupancy tax (HOT), including penalties and interest. Now we have…
CITY TO INCREASE PROPERTY TAX 4.3%, MAYOR BREAKS CAMPAIGN PROMISE
Yesterday our City Council held a Special Meeting and under agenda item 3 voted 8-0 to introduce an ordinance setting the tax rate at $0.759649 per $100 of property valuation.…