POST-ARENA ANTICS: SALCIDO AND RODRIGUEZ ALSO HAD UNPAID TRAFFIC TICKETS!
The El Paso Matters January 4 report on the traffic fines that Reps. Kennedy and Fierro neglected to pay before they were sworn in not only failed to hold Rep.…
VICTORY!!! DURANGUITO ARENA IS TERMINATED
Dear Friends and Media, It took 2,273 days, a half-dozen attorneys, three City Council election cycles, and a full-scale revolt from the community, but I am pleased to report that…
ARENA VOTE SCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW, JANUARY 3: SIGN UP TO SPEAK!
Tomorrow, January 3, at around 9:30am, the City Council will take up agenda items 13 and 14. Agenda item 13 would cancel the arena project in Duranguito and reallocate the…
HUTCHINS VS. GROSSMAN
The leadership of the El Paso Chamber of Commerce is upset that there is an action item on the City Council agenda for January 3 calling for abandoning the project…
VOTE TO ABANDON THE “ARENA” SET FOR JANUARY 3, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
It has been six years and two months since the City Council decided to build an “Arena” in Duranguito, displacing neighborhood residents and condemning 12 historic buildings that are eligible…
ADAM POWELL: “EL PASO CITY COUNCIL PLANS VOTE ON ABANDONING DOWNTOWN ARENA PROJECT”
Rep. Joe Molinar and Alexsandra Annello are co-sponsoring agenda item 13 for the January 3, 2023 City Council meeting, calling for moving the “Arena” project out of Duranguito, preventing the…
CITY COUNCIL TO VOTE ON SAVING DURANGUITO ON JANUARY 3!
I have learned that Reps. Joe Molinar and Alexsandra Annello have co-sponsored an agenda item for January 3, 2023 calling for moving the “Arena” project out of Duranguito, preventing the…
DEVELOPER OF PLANNED ARENA IN SUNLAND PARK: “IT’S A CERTAIN THING”
Vic Kolenc of the El Paso Times just published an outstanding report on the planned arena-amphitheater in Sunland Park, New Mexico. His report confirms the key facts I cite in…
DURANGUITO RENTERS FACE UP TO 41% HIKE IN RENT
The historic Duranguito tenement at 332 Leon Street is one of the many residential complexes built in the wake of the Mexican Revolution to house El Pasoans working in local…
KVIA VIDEO: MAYOR LEESER PROPOSES SOLUTION TO ARENA DEBACLE
Yesterday Erik Elken of KVIA aired his report on the latest scientific arena poll, showing that only 26% of El Pasoans support building an arena in Duranguito. Now you can…