KVIA TAKES POSITION AGAINST LIMITING SPEECH OF CITY REPS
On April 1, City Council voted 6-2 to direct the City Manager and City Attorney to draft a resolution designating the Mayor as the sole spokesperson of the City for…
SHOULD MAYOR JOHNSON BE THE SOLE CITY SPOKESMAN ON “HIGH-LEVEL” ISSUES?
On June 10, 2019, City Council voted to establish a Code of Conduct, confirming Mayor Dee Margo as “the designated representative of the Council to present and speak on the…
CITY COUNCIL VOTES 5-3 TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF PUBLIC COMMENT
Numerous El Pasoans were alarmed by the City’s plan to reform Public Comment, which would have been moved from the individual agenda items to a designated period starting at 10:00am,…
GROSSMAN TO EL PASO TIMES: CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO RESTRICT PUBLIC COMMENT
On April 29, the El Paso City Council voted 7-1 to amend the Rules of Order such that public comment on agenda items will be confined to a 60-minute period…
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…
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.…
CITY REP. CHRIS CANALES CALLS FOR “REMOVAL OF COMMERCIAL TRUCK TRAFFIC FROM THE BRIDGE OF THE AMERICAS”
This past Wednesday, Rep. Chris Canales of District 8 wrote a letter to the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) copying the Mayor, his colleagues on City Council, and Staff calling…
STOUT AND CANALES SIGN LETTER TO BIDEN DEMANDING GAZA CEASEFIRE
El Paso County Commissioner David Stout of Precinct 2 and City Council Representative Chris Canales of District 8 signed a letter to President Biden, dated January 9, calling for a…
CITY CLIMATE CZAR NICOLE FERRINI TO BE HOSTED BY CITY REP. CHRIS CANALES TOMORROW AT 5:30PM
We have reported extensively about how City Manager Tommy Gonzalez created the Office of Climate & Sustainability just before he was fired, appointing Nicole Ferrini as its head. Flush with…