EL PASO HAS THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF FATALITIES INVOLVING DRUNK DRIVING
A recent study shows that among the 50 largest cities in America, El Paso has the highest percentage of fatal crashes involving drunk drivers, at 60.8%. The city’s rate is…
NEW COUNTY CFO RAN CITY FINANCES UNDER JOYCE WILSON, HAS CONTROVERSIAL RECORD
Last month, Chief Administrator Betsy Keller appointed Carmen Arrieta-Candelaria as Director of Budget and Finance of El Paso County. There was no discussion of the hire by the County Commissioners…
CITY PURCHASING THREE UNION PLAZA PROPERTIES FOR $3.2M TO EXPAND CONVENTION CENTER, WILL PAY 362% OF APPRAISED VALUE
We previously reported that the City is planning to expand the Convention Center south of San Antonio Avenue and into the Union Plaza neighborhood. The City has been aggressively purchasing…
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…