RENARD BREAKS PROMISE TO FIX OUR STREETS
As a candidate for Mayor, Renard Johnson repeatedly promised to fix our streets and blamed City Council for failing to allocate $40 million for street repair and maintenance. During the…
COUNTY VOTES 4-1 TO INCREASE PROPERTY TAX BY $137 ON AVERAGE
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…
MOORE BOWS TO MAYOR IN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, FAILS TO PRESS HIM ON BROKEN CAMPAIGN PROMISES
When Mayor Renard Johnson decided to give an exclusive media interview to discuss his first six months in office, he did not go to Adam Powell, Lesley Engle, or Julia…
30 EL PASO HOTELS FAIL TO REMIT $2.5M IN HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX
Last month we cited a City audit dated March 6 revealing that 10 hotels failed to remit $1,121,530.45 in hotel occupancy tax (HOT), including penalties and interest. Now we have…
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…
CITY COUNCIL VOTES 6-1 TO NOT APPOINT AN INTERIM CHIEF INTERNAL AUDITOR
It is incredible but true. Our City currently has no Chief Internal Auditor now that Edmundo Calderon has retired. The failure to replace him with an Interim Chief Internal Auditor…
CITY TO INCREASE PROPERTY TAX 4.3%, MAYOR BREAKS CAMPAIGN PROMISE
Yesterday our City Council held a Special Meeting and under agenda item 3 voted 8-0 to introduce an ordinance setting the tax rate at $0.759649 per $100 of property valuation.…
EPISD TRUSTEE ALEX CUELLAR TELLS KVIA “WE’RE NOT GONNA RAID THE FUND BALANCE” THEN VOTES TO DO SO 20 DAYS LATER!
Once in awhile we catch an El Paso politician in an outright lie. EPISD Trustee Alex Cuellar told Mark Ross of ABC-7 XTRA that his Board would not raid the…
ELIDA S. PEREZ: “EXPANDED EXEMPTION” FOR SENIORS AND DISABLED MEANS ONLY $1.59/MONTH IN SAVINGS
It has been a long time since we shared a report from El Paso Matters, which we consider to be politically compromised. However, we feel this particular report by Elisa…