Government taxation and spending
Today the County Commissioners Court was set to vote on posting notice for a $54M certificate of obligation but then postponed the vote for one week after members of the…
New statistics show that El Paso County grew by only 948 people between 2023 and 2024, an increase of only 0.1%. That means that El Paso County had the slowest…
We are the only media source that reports the total debt of our local taxing entities. On March 28 we shared statistics from the Texas Bond Review Board showing that…
County Judge Ricardo Samaniego ran on a platform of fiscal conservatism and assumed office January 1, 2019. Since that time, he voted to increase his salary to $152,700 and to…
Nicole Friedman of the Wall Street Journal reported on December 23 that “nationwide, taxes and insurance make up more than half of the monthly mortgage payment for 9% of single-family…
There is nothing more important than the education of our children and that is why it is necessary to elect qualified citizens to our local school boards. The EPISD election…
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On May 4, the voters of Canutillo ISD narrowly passed a $386.2 million school bond even though the Board of Trustees failed to balance their own budget. The total voter…
Renard Johnson, whose brother and former business partner has been federally indicted in a $3 million Ponzi scheme, promises to give away his salary if elected Mayor. Wow, we are…
This past Monday, the El Paso Commissioners Court voted 4-1 (with Iliana Holguin dissenting) to contribute $1 million toward the design cost for building a five-block deck plaza over Interstate…
