THE COUNTY’S $482 MILLION SPENDING BINGE
During a Special Meeting of the County Commissioners Court on July 9, Jose Landeros, Director of Strategic Development, presented the recommendations of the Bond Advisory Committee for future debt issuances.…
TRACEY JEROME IS NOW SOMEONE ELSE’S PROBLEM
One of the happiest emails we received in recent months is the one attached below, confirming that Tracey Jerome, one of Tommy Gonzalez’s most notorious sycophants, is no longer a…
CITY COUNCIL TO LET VOTERS DECIDE IF THEY STILL WANT A DOWNTOWN ARENA
Yesterday the City voted 5-3 to let the voters decide in the November 5 General Election whether to kill the City’s ill-fated project to build an arena in downtown El…
MORE THAN $48,000 IN CONTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS MISSING FROM CASSANDRA HERNANDEZ’S CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORT
It is campaign season and the candidates were required to submit their July 15 finance reports by yesterday, covering the period from January 1 through June 30. City Rep. Cassandra…
THREE CITY REPS PUT UP ITEM EMPOWERING VOTERS TO SINK THE ARENA
At tomorrow’s Regular City Council Meeting, Representatives Kennedy, Fierro, and Canales are co-sponsoring item 30, which could sink the ill-fated arena project once and for all. The item calls for…
CITY CFO ROBERT CORTINAS IS THE BEST CANDIDATE FOR CITY MANAGER
We just learned that from a pool of 80 candidates for the position of City Manager, the Mayor and City Representatives have narrowed their search to four finalists, all of…
KENNEDY RUNNING FOR MAYOR!
City Rep. Brian Kennedy of District 1 has just announced that he is running for Mayor of El Paso and that Commissioner Iliana Holguin of Precinct 3, the most fiscally…
JOYCE WILSON UNHINGED
We previously reported how former City Manager Joyce Wilson, who launched our City into a 19-year spending binge, lashed out against the current City Council for refusing to fund a…
CYNTHIA BOYAR TREJO, CANDIDATE FOR DISTRICT 4, VOTED ONLY ONE TIME!
Joe Molinar is City Representative of District 4. He served honorably in the United States Marines and then in the El Paso Police Department, including as a homicide detective, before…
AUDIT REVEALS CITY MISHANDLED NUMEROUS CHAPTER 380 AGREEMENTS WITH DEVELOPERS, LOSING MILLIONS
A new audit reveals the City’s Economic & International Development Department lost millions of dollars because of systemic failures in its handling of Chapter 380 Agreements with developers and did…