CITY, COUNTY, AND UMC TO INCREASE TAX ON AVERAGE HOME BY $336!
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…
LIBRE INITIATIVE DIRECTOR EXCORIATES EL PASO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FOR NON-VOTER-APPROVED DEBT
Enrique Romero is the local Director of The Libre Initiative, a fiscally conservative non-profit “dedicated to empowering the Hispanic community.” Today he published a scathing opinion essay highlighting the addiction…
TOTAL DEBT OF EL PASO TAXING ENTITIES TO SURPASS $11.5 BILLION
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…
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…
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…
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…
CBS4: COUNTY DELAYS VOTE ON UMC DEBT ISSUANCE UNTIL LIBRE PETITION IS VERIFIED
Today the El Paso County Commissioners Court decided to delay the vote on whether to issue a certificate of obligation in the amount of $346 million to expand UMC hospital…
LIBRE CLAIMS IT HAS ENOUGH SIGNATURES TO STOP UMC’S DEBT ISSUANCE!
At 2:15pm today, the Libre Initiative submitted to the County Clerk the signatures of about 35,000 citizens who oppose University Medical Center’s plan to issue $346 million in certificates of…
UMC BOND PRESENTATION TODAY AT 6:00PM
oday County Commissioner Iliana Holguin, who opposes the use of certificates of obligation to pay for the proposed expansion of UMC, will host a “UMC Bond Presentation” at Ysleta High…
POLITICAL HYPOCRISY: ESCOBAR ATTACKS OPPONENTS OF UMC BOND
It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. The El Paso Commissioners Court was poised to rubber-stamp $346 million in certificates of obligation to fund the UMC hospital expansion, but Jacob…