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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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Union Plaza
Condensed 3-minute “Chupacabra Historians” video
Rather than give El Paso mayor Dee Margo and City Council my usual 3-minute speech, I produced and presented to them a 3-minute video that exposed the immature attempt by the mayor to create hostility between amateur historian Fred Morales and degreed historians Drs. David Romo, Yolanda Leyva and Max Grossman, over Barrio Duranguito historical heritage. A vain ploy to undermine the historical value of the Union Plaza neighborhood so they can place the sports arena and erase El Paso history, architecture and culture.
Full-length unedited video follows on this blog.
Jud Burgess film on Mayor Dee Margo and Fred Morales: A Toxic Combo
A short film that captures the continued desperation of El Paso Mayor Dee Margo and City Council in their effort to build a “sports arena” in Barrio Duranguito.
At the invitation of the mayor, Fred Morales, a grassroots historian without credentials proceeds to grind his axe against PhD. degreed El Pasoans Dr. Max Grossman, Dr. David Romo and Dr. Yolanda Leyva who are leading the fight against mayor Margo and the City...
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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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