We saw it yesterday at City Council. City Council holds discussions behind closed doors, and then presents their decision to

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We saw it yesterday at City Council. City Council holds discussions behind closed doors, and then presents their decision to
When you make decisions behind closed doors, without public input, you better be right. So far, our city hasn’t been
According to Wikipedia, Open government is the governing doctrine which holds that citizens have the right to access the documents
Remember? They told us that hiring City Managers for ten years would provide “continuity.” The problem is compounded by our
I think it’s obscene that the City of El Paso asks the working poor to pay for luxury amenities for
This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for
When Representative Dr. Sam Morgan talked about Operational Security and him knowing things that we didn’t know, I hope he
At a Special Meeting on Monday, City Council approved an additional $20 million in Certificates of Obligation for the Children’s
An alert reader pointed out that this week Bloomberg.com, that bastion of liberal thinking, ran an article called Four Reasons
The word in the smoke-filled back rooms of the the back alleys of the side streets of the halls of
There are lots of places where people can live and El Paso is one of them. Unfortunately for the El
This, from KTSM: City Council approved a controversial proposal Tuesday to create a special taxing zone to spur development along
According to estimates just released by the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of the City of El Paso grew by
This article originally appeared on November 11, 2013. By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about
Did you hear that the City of El Paso, along with some private investors, are going to build a Children’s
The City offered up their newly minted Chief Financial Officer to defend our sky high tax rates. Here’s David Crowder
No, not for some made up cost-of-living click bait. For taxes! Property tax rates for industrial properties, to be specific.
The advocates for the City’s Quality of Life projects pretend that we need ballparks and arenas to spur economic development.
Advocates of the Quality of Life bonds completely misrepresented the facts before the 2012 elections. They minimized the impact on
From a May 10, 2012, article in the El Paso Times* written by Cindy Ramirez: The city’s November bond issue