El Paso Metro It was announced on Thursday that various groups opposed to the 11.8% tax hike proposed by Mayor Ray Caballero have come together under the banner of El Paso Fights Back Coalition. A recent El Paso Times/KVIA Poll indicated that two-thirds of El Paso’s registered voters oppose the tax increase. The poll had […]
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Policy Changes Coming Soon
El Paso Metro The El Paso Empowerment Zone Board of Directors has postponed their November 15th funding cycle. This comes as new members join the board including Kathleen Staudt of UTEP. The changes on the board executive committee and the decision to postpone the November funding cycle has put members of the empowerment zone community […]
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El Paso’s Birth of A System of Citizenship
Prometheus, El Paso Metro It is a time for celebration when a system experiences the results of what was once dormant potential. Any system; biological, mechanical, economic, or social requires some basic principles in order for it to come to life and yield a product. The more complex the system the more likely it will […]
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El Paso Metro Weekly Byte: November 6, 2001
Welcome to El Paso Metro’s week in review. This section is updated every Tuesday night. City Council Review Bicycle Paths – Requested greater evaluation of bicycle paths impact on major thoroughfares. Contracts – Found Jar Concrete to be lowest responsible and responsive bidder for Del Norte project in District #2. Silverton Construction lost the contract. […]
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Jobe must be reined in
by Ruben L. Ruiz, El Paso Metro “Read my lips, no new taxes!” George W. the First bellowed the now famous assertion. Not that the statement was profound but rather it was simply a promise–A broken promise is all that it became. It is not as if he was the first politician to lie. Hmmm, […]
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So what’s left of the Republican Party?
By Greg Freyermuth, El Paso Metro There have been some high profile departures from the Republican Party of late made more noteworthy, not by the significance of the people leaving, but by the aggrandizement of the media. Most have stated their excuses for leaving; none have been able to substantiate their claims. Talk of the […]
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El Paso Metro Weekly Byte: October 30, 2001
El Paso Metro Welcome to El Paso Metro’s week in review. This section is updated every Tuesday night. City Council Highlights Asleep at the Wheel – Jan Sumrall, who has been on council for seven years requested re-prioritization of the bond issue projects to move up a park on the Westside. Rose Rodriguez questioned where […]
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Raucous Meeting forms PAC
El Paso Metro In a standing room only meeting held on Thursday night October 25th, a considerable and well-known group of political activists met to discuss the future of party politics in El Paso. After long and often raucous debate, the participants at the first JFK Democratic Club meeting decided that the best course of […]
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An Open Letter to the Honorable Rick Perry
By Lupe Weaver, El Paso Metro I am writing to support the Tigua Tribe known as the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo. Why are you trying so hard to destroy what they have worked so hard to build? In destroying the Tiguas, you hurt El Paso County. Do you not understand that the Tiguas are part […]
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El Paso Metro Weekly Byte: October 23, 2001
Welcome to El Paso Metro’s week in review. This section is updated every Tuesday night. City Council Highlights BIKER Run – Agreed to co-sponsor a toy run for kids with the West Texas Biker Club Confederation; El Paso Youth Appreciation Week – Recognized El Paso Optimists. Activities will be held on November 7th at the […]