I am pleased to report that after today’s three-hour executive session, the City Council voted 6-0 to authorize City Attorney Karla Nieman to accept a proposed Rule 11 Agreement between…
Good afternoon, Executive Session item 3 on Monday, August 14 is titled “Max Grossman v. City of El Paso; Texas Supreme Court, Case No. 21-1105. Matter No. 17-1001-171.001 (551.071).” Two…
Houston, like most major cities, has journalists with the requisite skills for investigating complex financial matters and the time and patience to conduct open records requests for key documents. As…
KVIA has posted a four-minute video from Friday in which Stephanie Valle interviews George Zavala, the District 3 resident who filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Cassandra Hernandez, resulting in…
Last night at 9:34pm, City Reps. Kennedy, Annello, Molinar and Fierro—who all happen to serve on the Financial Oversight and Audit Committee—received a mysterious email from John Simpson, a resident…
KVIA has just published the Determination of the Ethics Review Commission regarding the misconduct of City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez as well as the scathing Letter of Reprimand that was issued…
Good morning, On August 16 at 1:30pm in the 384th District Court of Judge Patrick M. Garcia there will be a hearing on the mandate issued by the 8th Court…
Two days ago, Cassandra Hernandez posted the attached image to her Instagram bragging about her fiscal discipline because of her vote Monday to not raise our City property tax. (Yes,…
It happened on D-Day and slipped past all our local media without a single report. On June 6 our City Council voted 8-0 to eliminate Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone #10A…
At today’s Special Meeting, our City Council voted unanimously to cap the City tax rate at the no-new-revenue rate of $0.832001 for each $100 of property valuation. That means that…
