SHOCK AND AWE: KENNEDY HAS 44 BLOCKWALKERS!
We’ve never seen anything like it. This weekend there are 44 blockwalkers accompanying mayoral candidate Brian Kennedy on their walk through District 3. At that rate they must be hitting…
CITY IS ON RIGHT COURSE, BUT COUNTY SPENDING IS OUT OF CONTROL: MAX GROSSMAN
Max Grossman: Guest columnist, Published 7:01 a.m. MT Aug. 15, 2024 Our city and county have adopted opposite approaches to borrowing and taxation. While the mayor and majority of City…
BRIAN KENNEDY VS. RENARD JOHNSON
There are only two candidates for Mayor who matter: Rep. Brian Kennedy and Renard Johnson. Cassandra Hernandez, who increased our property tax six times, voted to issue hundreds of millions…
CITY COMMITS TO NO TAX INCREASE FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW!
Thanks to the financial acumen and wizardry of CFO Robert Cortinas and Interim City Manager Cary Westin, yesterday our City Council was presented with a budget for FY 2024-25 that…
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…
KENNEDY RUNNING FOR MAYOR!
City Rep. Brian Kennedy of District 1 has just announced that he is running for Mayor of El Paso and that Commissioner Iliana Holguin of Precinct 3, the most fiscally…
AUDIT REVEALS CITY MISHANDLED NUMEROUS CHAPTER 380 AGREEMENTS WITH DEVELOPERS, LOSING MILLIONS
A new audit reveals the City’s Economic & International Development Department lost millions of dollars because of systemic failures in its handling of Chapter 380 Agreements with developers and did…
CITY COUNCIL APPROVES AMPHITHEATER IN NORTHEAST EL PASO ON 4-3 VOTE
Today under agenda items 38 and 39, City Council voted 4-3 to provide $30.6 million in incentives to Notes Live Inc., which will construct an amphitheater on the site of…
GASSANDRA TRIES AND FAILS TO UNSEAT KENNEDY!
Rep. Cassandra Hernandez claims that Rep. Brian Kennedy should resign his seat on City Council because he announced he is running for Mayor. Texas law states that any elected City…