IS THERE A NEW PLAN FOR AN ARENA IN OUR DOWNTOWN?
Based upon what we have learned so far about the City’s secretive property acquisitions and the expansion of the “Convention Center Master Plan,” we are starting to think the City…
ALAN SERNA, CANDIDATE FOR CITY DISTRICT 7, IS “ASHAMED AND APPALLED” AN ARENA WILL NOT BE BUILT IN DURANGUITO
Alan Serna is a candidate for City District 7 and has raised and and spent far less than his three opponents. His only major donor was Steve Ortega, who wrote…
MAYOR LEESER ON THE ARENA: THE VOTERS “WERE LIED TO, THEY WERE MISLED”
Now is our chance to put this nefarious boondoggle out of its misery. Vote YES on Special Election, Proposition A: “To cancel the City’s authority to issue the remaining $128,455,636…
HERNANDEZ FILES PAPERWORK FOR MAYORAL CAMPAIGN DURING KEY ARENA VOTE
At exactly 12:29pm today, under agenda item 29, City Council voted 5-2 to place an item on the November 5 ballot that would cancel spending bond money for a downtown…
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…
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…
RENARD JOHNSON STILL WANTS A DOWNTOWN ARENA!
Renard Johnson, the Escobar-backed candidate for Mayor who is backed by all the big developers and their bankers and attorneys, wants to “invest” in a downtown arena with your money…
HERNANDEZ TO DISCUSS ARENA TONIGHT ON ABC-7 XTRA AT 10:35PM
Tonight on ABC-7 XTRA at 10:35pm, Paul Cicala will host four guests to discuss the upcoming City Council vote on whether to build the MPC adjacent to the Union Depot.…
MAYOR PRO TEMPORE KENNEDY PROPOSES THE OPTION OF CANCELING THE ARENA
In his guest column for El Paso Matters, Mayor Pro Tempore Brian Kennedy proposes four possible options for the arena, but it is clear he believes canceling the project is…
WHERE IS A PACIFIER WHEN YOU NEED ONE?
Lately the opinion pages of the El Paso Times have been littered with folks like Henry Felix demanding a downtown arena, afraid our City might build one that is too…