THE COUNTY’S $482 MILLION SPENDING BINGE
During a Special Meeting of the County Commissioners Court on July 9, Jose Landeros, Director of Strategic Development, presented the recommendations of the Bond Advisory Committee for future debt issuances.…
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…
MORE THAN $48,000 IN CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS MISSING FROM CASSANDRA HERNANDEZ’S CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORT
It is campaign season and the candidates were required to submit their July 15 finance reports by yesterday, covering the period from January 1 through June 30. City Rep. Cassandra…
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…
AUDIT REVEALS CITY MISHANDLED NUMEROUS CHAPTER 380 AGREEMENTS WITH DEVELOPERS, LOSING MILLIONS
A new audit reveals the City’s Economic & International Development Department lost millions of dollars because of systemic failures in its handling of Chapter 380 Agreements with developers and did…
COUNTY AWARDED $540K NO-BID CONTRACT TO BARRACUDA TO PROMOTE ITS PLAN FOR $500M OF NEW DEBT
UPDATED 6/18/24, 11:32 PM As we know, El Paso County plans to max out its bonding capacity by issuing up to $500 million in new debt, including $150 million without…
SISD OVERCHARGES TAXPAYERS $2.2 MILLION, UNDERSTATES DROP IN STUDENT ENROLLMENT
Just when we thought the financial disaster that is Socorro ISD could not get any worse, it got worse by an order of magnitude! We reported five days ago that…
“ZIONIST ETHNIC CLEANSING” DENOUNCED AT TEXAS DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONVENTION IN EL PASO
The Texas Democratic Convention was held in El Paso from June 6 to June 8. All your favorites were there: Veronica Escobar, Beto O’Rourke, and so many others who demand…
DAVID SAUCEDO GRADUATES FROM LAW SCHOOL, DELIVERS COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
Former Mayoral candidate David Saucedo II graduated from Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 31 and delivered the commencement address before his class of 370…
SISD ENROLLMENT TO DROP BY 3,500
The Socorro ISD is in financial freefall. Chief Financial Officer Vicki Perez has already confirmed that between the current fiscal year and next fiscal year, the District faces a combined…