EL PASO COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT SALARIES, FY 2007-2024
We recently reported the salaries of the El Paso County Commissioners Court for FY 2015-2024, but we decided to do a deeper dive and investigate their salaries going back to…
JUDY GUTIERREZ OPPOSES TAX INCREASES AND NON-VOTER-APPROVED DEBT, WOULD RETURN HER SALARY
City Rep. Alexsandra Annello of District 2 recently resigned her seat on City Council to run for state office, triggering a special election on December 9. Of the four candidates…
SAN ELIZARIO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES HAPPY WITH FOUR-DAY WORKWEEK
There are nine public school districts in El Paso County, including the San Elizario Independent School District, which has about 3,000 students enrolled. Of the more than 1,250 public school…
NATIONAL REPORT ON “HIGHWAY BOONDOGGLES” INCLUDES PLAN TO WIDEN INTERSTATE 10 IN DOWNTOWN EL PASO
Each year for the last eight years, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund and the Frontier Group collaborate on a publication called Highway Boondoggles. The Fall 2023…
THREE EL PASO SCHOOL DISTRICTS SUE TO PREVENT RELEASE OF NEW ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS
Claudia Lorena Silva of El Paso Matters recently published a report on the dozens of Texas school districts that are suing the Commissioner of Education to prevent the release of…
PRESIDENT OF WESTSIDE DEMOCRATS RESIGNS
We recently reported that Victor Vasquez, President of the Westside Democrats of El Paso, posted this anti-Semitic cartoon on his group’s official Facebook page on November 2: The image depicts…
FUNDRAISER FOR RE-ELECTON OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER ILIANA HOLGUIN OF PRECINCT 3, NOVEMBER 15, 5:30-7:30 PM
The El Paso Taxpayer Revolt strongly endorses the re-election of El Paso County Commissioner Iliana Holguin of Precinct 3. She has consistently stood with the taxpayers, advocating for fiscal restraint…
PPP LOAN DEFAULT RATE IN EL PASO IS MORE THAN DOUBLE THE NATIONAL AVERAGE
Martin Paredes of El Paso News published a groundbreaking investigative report on the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was intended to benefit American workers at the height of the…
INTERFAITH VIGIL IN SUPPORT OF THE 240 HOSTAGES HELD BY TERRORISTS
Today in San Jacinto Plaza, more than 200 El Pasoans peacefully gathered to express their support for the 240 hostages held by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza. Several…
REP. VERONICA ESCOBAR VOTES AGAINST CENSURING REP. RASHIDA TLAIB
This past Tuesday, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar voted NAY on House Resolution 845, “Censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and…