Skip to content

El Chuqueño

The dog barks, and the caravan moves on.

  • Home
El Chuqueño

Category: City Council

El Paso’s Population Soars to 700,698 In 2021* [Updated]

2023-07-17 Rich Wright Arrogance, City Council, City Management, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin, Liar Liar, population, Slider Leave a comment

by Rich Wright From Page 3 of the City’s El Paso Uptown+Downtown Citywide Market Analysis Appendix: From the fine print:

Continue reading

CITY BUDGET TO INCREASE TO $1.3B FOR FY 2024, HERNANDEZ WANTS MORE DEBT

2023-07-16 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

by Max Grossman Cindy Ramirez of El Paso Matters published a substantive report on the ongoing budget talks in City

Continue reading

DID A THIRD INDIVIDUAL USE HERNANDEZ’S GAS CARD?

2023-07-14 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, Corruption, FOAC, Gassandrgate, Slider 3 comments

by Max Grossman Rep. Cassandra Hernandez purchased 35% of all gas purchased by the City Council and Mayor in 2022,

Continue reading

JORDAN AND HERNANDEZ ARE CONNECTED TO DEBORAH PAZ!

2023-07-06 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Gassandrgate, Slider Leave a comment

by Max Grossman Several days ago, a PAC called “Women’s Voices for Political Reform” proclaimed that on July 5 they

Continue reading

Retrovision: The Road to Economic Development

2023-07-02 Rich Wright Art, ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 06 June 2013. This post has been slightly edited. As an El Pasoan, I appreciate

Continue reading

CITY SUED OVER TWO STREET PAVING CONTRACTS WORTH $34 MILLION

2023-06-27 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Sam Rodriguez, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

by Max Grossman Erik Elken of KVIA aired an exclusive report last night revealing that ZTEX Construction, Inc. filed two

Continue reading

You Are Still Paying for the Great Wolf Lodge Fiasco

2023-06-24 Rick Bonart City Council, Economic Development, Elizabeth Gibson, Slider, Taxes, TIRZ 10, TIRZ 13 2 comments

by Rick Bonart While Council investigates trivial gas card infractions, millions of public dollars are being wasted. Left unchecked, these

Continue reading

The El Paso Times Reports on the FOAC and Gassandragate

2023-06-19 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Corruption, El Paso Times, Slider One comment

Maybe you didn’t see this story in the El Paso Times. The story was posted on ElPasoTimes.com on Friday, June

Continue reading

The Best Charter Amendment That Didn’t Pass

2023-06-18 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Joyce Wilson, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

It was Proposition A: “Should section 3.1 of the City Charter, relating to creation, composition; powers and duties of Council

Continue reading

EL PASO MATTERS INVESTIGATES GAS CARD USE OF HERNANDEZ AND RODRIGUEZ

2023-06-12 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, Corruption, El Paso Matters, Slider Leave a comment

by Max Grossman Elisa S. Perez of El Paso Matters independently obtained records of City Council gas card usage going

Continue reading

The Poor Quality of Local Media

2023-06-02 Rich Wright Claudia Lizette Rodriguez, Corruption, El Paso Matters, El Paso Times, Media, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

by Rich Wright Did you see this report from KVIA? Former District 6 City of El Paso Representative Claudia Rodriguez

Continue reading

Arrogance

2023-06-02 Rich Wright Arrogance, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Opportunity Costs, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

If you look at the Census Bureau estimates for El Paso’s population, the inflection point was 2012. It didn’t turn

Continue reading

CITY AUDITOR PRESSURED TO ALTER HIS REPORT ON CITY GAS CARDS!

2023-05-27 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, Corruption, FOAC, Slider 2 comments

by Max Grossman In its reporting on the City gas card scandal, KVIA has reminded our community why it is

Continue reading

Max Grossman: “VIDEO SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF CITY GAS CARD USAGE SOON TO BE RELEASED”

2023-05-25 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, FOAC, Slider Leave a comment

by Max Grossman As we learned from Edmundo Calderon, Chief Internal Auditor of the City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez and former

Continue reading

Adam Smith on Politics in El Paso

2023-05-24 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

by Rich Wright From The Wealth of Nations: “To hurt in any degree the interest of any one order of

Continue reading

CONSTRUCTION BEGINS IN TIRZ 13, THE LARGEST CORPORATE HANDOUT IN EL PASO HISTORY

2023-05-19 Max Grossman City Council, Great Wolf Resorts, Karla Nieman, Slider, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

by Max Grossman Vic Kolenc of the El Paso Times and the Staff of the El Paso Inc have both

Continue reading

DRAINING THE SWAMP: FOAC COMMITTEE TO AUDIT CITY 380 AGREEMENTS AND NO-BID CONTRACTS

2023-05-17 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

by Max Grossman According to the Texas Comptroller, “Chapter 380 of the Local Government Code authorizes municipalities to offer incentives

Continue reading

A Little Corrupt

2023-05-12 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, Corruption, Slider 3 comments

As the famous Jewish philosopher said, “If I can’t trust you with gas cards, how can I trust you with

Continue reading

About Gassandragate

2023-05-05 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Claudia Lizette Rodriguez, Corruption, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

Yesterday I went to the City of El Paso’s Financial Oversight Audit Committee’s meeting at City Hall. It was great.

Continue reading

Cassandra Hernandez and Gasgate

2023-05-04 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, Politics, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Last night I got this email from Max Grossman: The Financial Oversight and Audit Committee (FOAC) will be meeting tomorrow

Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 2 3 4 5 … 38 Next Posts»

A Buck a Month

Come on. If everyone who read El Chuqueño donated just a dollar a month, I'd have a few more dollars. Make a difference. Invest in the alternative narrative, and help a brother out.

The People Speak!

  • Denise M Schubbe on City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico
  • elrichiboy on The King of Mesa Street: The Life and Death of a Border Bluesman, Part 1
  • Angela Mollyhorn on The King of Mesa Street: The Life and Death of a Border Bluesman, Part 1
  • John G. Dungan on Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain
  • Denise M Schubbe on City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico
  • Denise M Schubbe on City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico
  • Denise M Schubbe on City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico
  • John G. Dungan on Ninja Convention
  • Paul Pino on The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises
  • Jerry K on The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown

El Chuqueño Lately

  • The Russians Are Coming!
  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain
  • “The Other Woman”
  • “The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”
  • Who’s the New Guy?

Stuff we talk about