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…
PRIVATE CORPORATION TO BUILD 12,500-SEAT AMPHITHEATER IN NORTHEAST EL PASO, ZERO GENERAL FUND DOLLARS
Under Executive Session item EX1 today, our City Council announced a public-private partnership with Notes Live, Inc., a private developer, which will build a 12,500-seat amphitheater at the former site…
KENNEDY TO THE RESCUE?
Yesterday we conducted a Facebook poll asking the public for whom they would vote for Mayor if the General Election were held today. We offered three choices: Cassandra Hernandez, Renard…
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…
RENARD JOHNSON IS THE NEW BETO
Renard Johnson is running for Mayor on a pro-Oligarchy platform. That means more large bond issuances for capital improvement projects and transportation infrastructure, generous incentives for large corporations, and higher…