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…
REP. BRIAN KENNEDY APPOINTED MAYOR PRO TEMPORE
During yesterday’s meeting of City Council at the 39.00 mark, Rep. Brian Kennedy of District 1 was appointed Mayor Pro Tempore after only one year and 28 days in office.…
JEREMY JORDAN, HUSBAND OF REP. CASSANDRA HERNANDEZ, TAKES PETTY SWIPE AT REP. BRIAN KENNEDY
Yesterday Rep. Kennedy posted about the long awaited reopening of the Dorris Van Doren Library in West El Paso, which had 103,500 books checked out during 2022, representing 28% of…
WILL OUR CITY PAY $500/MONTH TO NEEDY FAMILIES FROM TAXPAYER FUNDS?
On October 10 under agenda item 20, our City Council voted 5 to 1 “to authorize City Manager and City Attorney to identify a funding source for $500,000 and create…
BRIAN KENNEDY TO ANSWER DEBORAH PAZ BEFORE ETHICS COMMISSION
Deborah Paz worked for the election campaign of Rep. Cassandra Hernandez in 2020. She formed a PAC called Women’s Voices for Political Reform, which has the same address as the…