PROPERTY TAX INCREASES: THE HYPOCRISY OF CITY COUNCIL
Last month our City Council voted unanimously to order City Manager Tommy Gonzalez to craft a plan to decrease the City property tax rate, which has risen 38% since Gonzalez…
MORE KAPLOWITZ: EL PASO DOWNTOWN ARENA PROJECT IS “DEAD”
Dear Friends, CITY MANAGER’S CONTRACT EXTENSION As I write to you, our City Council is in Executive Session debating whether to extend the contract of City Manager Gonzalez for another…
RESTORE SACRED HEART CHURCH: INTERVIEW WITH AARON MONTES & UPDATE
Dear Friends, Aaron Montes of KTEP interviewed me for a segment focusing on our effort to Restore Sacred Heart Church. It aired on KTEP 88.5 FM on May 17 but…
KAPLOWITZ: “EL PASO DOWNTOWN ARENA PROJECT WILL ONLY BE A MEMORY”
Steve Kaplowitz, a popular radio host and one of the foremost sports experts in Texas, published an opinion essay on the “Arena” four days ago on the ESPN El Paso…
EL DIARIO DE EL PASO LAYS OFF VETERAN EMPLOYEES
Roberto Carrillo has long been a reporter for El Diario de El Paso. Yesterday he informed me that on April 25 he and the weekend editor Aracely Lazcano were laid…
EL PASO PRIMETIME NEWSCAST RATINGS: COMSCORE VS. NIELSON
I have completed my research on the ratings of our six local television networks. In the attached chart, I have compiled the average audience for all newscasts that start between…
AVERAGE AUDIENCE FOR EL PASO NEWSCASTS BY NETWORK
The attached chart is part 2 of my analysis of the audience ratings for our six local television news networks. These figures are for the week of April 11-15, 2022,…
RATINGS FOR EL PASO PRIMETIME NEWSCASTS: ABC-7 AND NOTICIAS 26 DOMINATE
Dear Friends, I have always observed our local television media very closely, often monitoring which stories are reported and how they are reported. Today I am sharing with you the…
SACRED HEART CHURCH: MAJOR DISCOVERY REPORTED BY EL PASO MATTERS
Dear Friends and Media, René Kladzyk of El Paso Matters, assisted by photographer Corrie Boudreaux, just published a beautiful report on the effort to Restore Sacred Heart Church as well…
KVIA: BERNIE AND MELISSA SARGENT LEAVE EL PASO
Many of you have heard that Bernie Sargent and his wife Melissa have sold their home and left El Paso for good after 37 years here. Bernie and Melissa were…