Dear Media and Friends, Yesterday, under agenda item 13.1, City CFO Robert Cortinas updated the City Council and public on the budget crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic. I have…
Friends and Media, Rich Wright has repeatedly informed the public about El Paso’s stagnant population because our local media will not. “Between 2012 and 2017, Houston’s population grew by 156,559…
Dear Friends, Earlier today I posted this video on El Paso Porkfest, a Facebook forum I created a couple months ago in order to promote debate and discussion of pork…
Dear Friends, The title of this email is the title of a front-page report published by David Crowder this past weekend. According to him, “the CAD’s preliminary valuations have apartments…
Dear Friends and Media: Yesterday marked precisely three years since the City of El Paso filed its Expedited Declaratory Judgment lawsuit in the 250th Judicial District Court of Travis County,…
Dear Media, Yesterday I contacted all three opponents of Mayor Dee Margo and asked them where they stand on the “Arena” and on tomorrow’s City Council agenda item 19.1, which…
Dear Friends, Tomorrow, during the Work Session under agenda item 8, City Council will be told that the market impact of COVID-19 on the pensions of approximately 4,400 plan participants…
*NOTE: THIS REPORT FOCUSES ON THE PROPERTY TAX RATE BUT DOES NOT CONSIDER THE NO-NEW-REVENUE TAX RATE Dear Friends, Since 2014, our City property tax rate has increased 38%, from…
