CITY-SPONSORED STUDY RECOMMENDS EXPANDING STREETCAR SERVICE
In 2022 our streetcars had an operating loss of $2.9 million, with 65,000 free rides, which means that each ride was subsidized $44.62. By contrast, our buses were subsidized $8.77…
LOCAL PAC ANNOUNCES ANNOUNCEMENT TO RECALL REP. MOLINAR 😂
Recently a new local PAC called “Women’s Voices for Political Reform” sent the attached media alert to City Council announcing they will initiate a recall petition against an unnamed member…
THERE IS ENOUGH SUPPORT ON CITY COUNCIL TO PREVENT A PROPERTY TAX INCREASE!
Yesterday we reported that Rep. Kennedy, Rep. Molinar, Rep. Fierro, and Mayor Leeser each made an iron-clad commitment to vote against any City budget that would increase our property tax.…
CITY REP. HERNANDEZ STILL DEFIANT
Reyes Mata submitted a report to El Paso Inc last week that includes statements from City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez about her outrageous gasoline expenditures. She told Mata what she’s been…
CITY SUED OVER TWO STREET PAVING CONTRACTS WORTH $34 MILLION
Erik Elken of KVIA aired an exclusive report last night revealing that ZTEX Construction, Inc. filed two lawsuits against the City of El Paso over of its plan to award…
COMPLAINT AGAINST REP. HERNANDEZ TO BE HEARD BY ETHICS REVIEW COMMISSION JULY 19
As you know, George Zavala filed a complaint with the City’s Ethics Review Commission against Rep. Cassandra Hernandez after the Chief Internal Auditor released the results of his review of…
GONZALEZ TO RECEIVE PAYOUT OF APPROXIMATELY $890,000
“City Manager Tommy Gonzalez will get an approximately $890,000 payout as his severance package after being fired earlier this year. Gonzalez’s severance package is calculated based on his employment contract…
JORDAN FOSTER POISED TO WIN $27.6 MILLION WORTH OF CITY CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS
On today’s City Council agenda, we see under item 29 that Jordan Foster Construction, LLC is poised to win a City contract worth $12,834,416 to rebuild Taxiway G at our…
REP. BRIAN KENNEDY: THERE IS “IRS INTEREST” IN THE CITY GAS CARD SCANDAL
With regard to the ongoing City gas card scandal, Kennedy notes that “the U.S. Internal Revenue Service quantifies any city money spent on a gas card as a business reimbursement.…
EL PASO MATTERS INVESTIGATES GAS CARD USE OF HERNANDEZ AND RODRIGUEZ
Elida S. Perez of El Paso Matters independently obtained records of City Council gas card usage going back to September 2019 and published a report showing that Rep. Cassandra Hernandez…