EL PASO TAXING ENTITIES OWE $10.3 BILLION!
No one has ever bothered to calculate the total principal and interest owed by the taxing entities within El Paso County, so we analyzed the statistics on public debt published…
INTERVIEW WITH SISD WHISTLEBLOWERS RICARDO CASTELLANO, DISTRICT 3 TRUSTEE, AND WIFE GABRIELA: $131 MILLION IN UNAUTHORIZED EXPENDITURES IDENTIFIED, FEAR FOR THEIR LIVES
The Socorro Independent School District has been engulfed in scandal, with numerous allegations of financial malfeasance and the placement of Superintendent Nate Carman on administrative leave through the end of…
CITY CFO CORTINAS RECOMMENDS ISSUING NO DEBT UNTIL FY 2026
This morning, the City’s Chief Financial Officer Robert Cortinas made a budget presentation to City Council under agenda item 3 in which he recommended issuing zero debt not only this…
SISD GRADUATED 276 UNQUALIFIED SENIORS, PAID $283,000 IN IMPROPER STIPENDS TO STAFF
We believe this is just the tip of the iceberg and that incompetence and corruption are rampant throughout our local school districts. The Texas Education Agency is taking over control…
JACOB CINTRON, CEO OF UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, NOW EARNS $1,056,327!
El Paso Matters recently acquired records from University Medical Center showing that CEO Jacob Cintron is now paid a salary of $878,000, an increase of 7% over last year, plus…
COUNTY RAMPS UP PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN IN SUPPORT OF ISSUING MASSIVE DEBT
The County Commissioners Court is on an unprecedented spending binge. Not only have they raised our taxes and increased their salaries, they now plan to issue up to $500 million…
SISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES MISMANAGES FINANCES, STUDENT ENROLLMENT UP 2% SINCE 2019 WHILE SALARIES UP 36%: COMMENTARY BY TOM LAIGN
Monday night, at its regular School Board meeting, the trustees of Socorro ISD honored the Financial Services Department, which was awarded the TASBO Award of Excellence in Financial Management. I’m…
SOCORRO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT TO BE TAKEN OVER BY THE STATE!
Lately we have been calling attention to the miserable financial condition of our local school districts, which have an unquenchable thirst for bond money. They have little financial oversight compared…
EL PASO WATER CUSTOMERS PAY 88% OF WATER INFRASTRUCTURE FOR NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS
This past February 21, Manuel Moreno, Vice-Chair of the Capital Improvements Advisory Committee, wrote a letter to the City summarizing a presentation that had been made to his group by…
INTERVIEW WITH TED HOUGHTON, FORMER TEXAS TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY, NOW CHAIR OF EL PASO MOBILITY COMMISSION
Ted Houghton is the principal of Houghton Financial Partners, Chair of the El Paso Mobility Commission, and Vice-Chair of the Medical Center of the Americas. In previous years, he served…