To pee or not to pee, that is the question. The answer is, if you need to pee, you won’t be able to at the newly renovated San Jacinto Plaza.
Last year, a lot of fun was had at the expense of the "Shawver Park Christmas Lights Display". Former City Rep. Eddie Holguin asked the City at the last minute for funding for a holiday lights display that was so dismal, it had the national news media making fun of it.
Mean Girls and musical chairs – that’s what El Paso City Council has been like lately, but it looks like things are going to settle down a bit. City Reps who asked to be moved away from City Rep Lily Limon have decided to go back to their regular chairs, and save taxpayers thousands of dollars in the process.
El Paso City Council wants local construction firms to work on local building projects, so today, they enacted the "Hire El Paso First" policy. If you are a local construction firm, you want to attend a meeting that can help you get more work from the City.
The Lincoln Center was supposed to be demolished on October first, but those plans have been put on hold. The land where the Lincoln Center sits has had a long history with Hispanics in the El Paso area, but instead of trying to save it, maybe it should become an exhibit in the El Paso Museum of History.
It's not secret that I'm a big fan of the ballpark, but I'm not a fan of a proposed parking fee for people who live and work in the neighborhood where the ballpark has been built. It's the Old San Francisco area of downtown El Paso, and a new proposed parking fee will do nothing but pick the pockets of residents there to the tune of up to 200 dollars.
75 days. Tuesday morning will mark 75 days since the switch was thrown on the Shawver lights Christmas display. City Rep. Eddie Holguin proposed the lights display in the Lower Valley park on November 12th, almost 3 months ago. When the lights display was approved, it was with the stipulation that Rep. Holguin would get corporate sponsorships to recover the costs for putting on the light displa
There has been a lot of controversy over the Shawver Park lights display that was pushed through El Paso City Council by City Rep. Eddie Holguin. Holguin was warned that it was too late to put on a good display, but he called City Manager Joyce Wilson and City Reps 'grinches' when they said it would be best to wait until next year to put together a good display. Ultimately, he got his lights. W