During today’s County Commissioners Court meeting under Budget and Finance item 12A, the five-member court discussed whether to increase the salaries of County employees up to 4.0%, effective January 3,…
Reyes Mata III of El Paso Inc just published an exceptional report documenting the exodus of 8,800 El Paso families to New Mexico between 2019 and 2023. According to Mata,…
Martin Paredes reports that yesterday Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he is investigating El Paso and other cities for “illegal tax increases.” The City sa ys it enacted its…
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…
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Yesterday, Mayor Renard Johnson gave a public presentation on the proposed Debt Plaza over Interstate 10 in downtown El Paso. In November 2022, Stantec Consulting Services was paid $1,321,785 to…
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…
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…
The City is increasing its property tax on the average home value ($221,726) by $83, with no resistance from Mayor Johnson, who had promised to lower our tax. UMC just…
In November, El Paso voters approved County Proposition A ($95,615,000 for parks and recreation), Proposition B ($26,700,000 for Medical Examiner facilities), and Proposition E ($32,710,000 for the Animal Shelter), for…
