With financial concerns evident for many municipal departments, there is simply no good excuse for the City of Amarillo to continue expending taxpayer dollars to lobby to the Texas Legislature. Last week, during the Amarillo City Council’s regular meeting, city...
After more deliberations and community pushback over a proposed 7 am meeting time, Amarillo City Council has dropped the idea and chosen a schedule friendlier to taxpayers. According to The Amarillo Pioneer, several city council members raised concerns over the newly...
Amarillo by Morning will take on a whole new meaning beginning September 4 when Amarillo City Council implements its new 7 a.m. meeting time. City council members voted Tuesday to move their meeting time from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. on Tuesdays as a 90-day “test period.” The...
The Democratic Party’s nominee for U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep. Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, announced plans to open a campaign office in Amarillo later this month. This will be the second office O’Rourke opens in West Texas this summer, after establishing a campaign hub in...
When the 2016 presidential election drew national attention to “fake news” and the “D.C. swamp,” a young man in Amarillo was taking on his own city’s entrenched media and local swamp. “Every other news source in Amarillo is beholden to some special interest...
Amarillo is at an unfortunate economic crossroads built on economic illiteracy and excessive influence. Almost a decade ago, Amarillo’s city government decided that economic development in downtown needed to be top priority. Officials devised a plan to build a...
