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When mayor Margo and city council team up with ex-con Billy Abraham to buy his neglected properties, everyone loses except the devil.
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IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG for new mayor Dee Margo to rip a page straight out of Donald Trumps’s playbook and try to muzzle the free speech rights of the very people he now serves...
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This graphic editorial by Jud Burgess / James No Bond includes the face of City Attorney Sylvia Borunda-Firth who is leading the charge along with the mayor and City Council to destroy Duranguito and its irreplaceable El Paso history.
The El Paso Times understandably would not print it with Borunda-Firth’s face, so I revised it and it printed without her face.
Senator José Rodriguez: Our people are not disposable and our history is not replaceable
There are many issues casting a dark shadow on the city push to erase the historic Duranguito neighborhood and replace it with an arena. One is the removal of residents, some of whom have been living there for decades, and who were used by the city to jump start the development process now leading to their evictions...
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El Paso’s Arena Fustercluck Part 3 • Some untold costs city leaders conveniently leave out
Apparently they believe that they know best…never mind the cost exacted in human, financial and historical terms. That sinking taxpayer dollars into this mammoth arena project will be the silver bullet that magically turns downtown into the mecca that will shift the tax burden from we, some of the highest property-taxed individuals in America, to the corporations and companies who hire hundreds of white collar, college-educated, tech-savvy employees who can’t wait to relocate here because...
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El Paso’s Arena Fustercluck Part 1 • Why I am against it
City leadership believed it would be a simple cut and dried process—offer the tenants some relocation assistance, pay property owners fair market value, and exercise eminent domain on any holdouts. I’m fairly certain they assured the investors the arena would move forward quickly with no headaches.
Resistance. Backlash. Protests. Neighborhood meetings. Bound and determined abuelitas. Blogposts. Ethics complaints. Texas Rangers. And a slew of other obstacles got in the way.
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Our Choices Define Us
As El Pasoans, we will be judged by our ability and desire to protect our city’s most vulnerable citizens.
Our eight city leaders and mayor stand at a moral crossroads where their decisions will affect two opposing groups of El Paso citizens.
The Latino and poor. The disenfranchized and voiceless.
The 1% and powerful. The wealthy and entitled.
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Jud Burgess aka JAMES NO BOND and City Council Rep. Dr. NOE have it out at a public city meeting.
Yesterday the city held a public meeting where they would once again try and explain to City Council (for the 8th time) just how DWNTWN and hotels within 1,000 feet of the convention center would be positively impacted by the location of the sure-to-lose-money arena as close as possible to the convention center.
It is more than obvious that most of the City is all in to dropping this arena in the Duranguito barrio, giving the boot to 150 or so residents and cementing our oldest history in favor of the investors, property-owners and hoteliers that are salivating as they wait for the $180,000,000 tax-payer funded arena to materialize and blow up their fat bank accounts.
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DR. NOE puts BARRIO DURANGUITO back on the potential chopping block
On December 20, just five days before Christmas in El Paso, City Hall had an energized meeting with 40+ Duranguito advocates of all backgrounds stepping up to the mic to plead the case for preventing City Council from finalizing an arena plan that would displace 150 residents from El Paso’s oldest historical living neighborhood.
The long and short of this continuing novela is that after a drawn out private executive session behind closed doors,
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