Make it make sense EP Water: Letters to the Editor

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This rendering shows a courtyard outside the new El Paso Water headquarters building to be built next the city utility's current office building at 1154 Hawkins Blvd., in East-Central El Paso.
This rendering shows a courtyard outside the new El Paso Water headquarters building to be built next the city utility's current office building at 1154 Hawkins Blvd., in East-Central El Paso.

Make it make sense EP Water

Can someone make something make sense to me? El Paso Water stated that one main reason they didn’t move Downtown was due to not enough parking available for their employees.

Yet they are currently constructing a parking garage on their current space on Hawkins Boulevard to accommodate the new headquarters building.

Couldn’t they have just built a parking garage adjacent to a building Downtown as well? How does this make sense?

Juan Carlos Duran

Central El Paso

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Have some compassion EP Electric

Are you aware that the $2.7 billion Electric Company serving our area provides no discounts to us disabled veterans and senior citizens?

Instead, we have to scrape up a major portion of our VA and Social Security income payments to pay the same electric rates as the millionaire CEO of that company, and I wonder if their motivation is just greed.

There certainly is not even a little national loyalty or compassion reflected in its excessive rates. I wonder what the CEO would tell you are the reasons for such an insensitive position by the company.

Michael Holland

Las Cruces, New Mexico

Support Prop. 9, Texas retired teachers

I am a member of the Texas Retired Teachers Association . I am a retired educator who taught for 32 years.I am asking for your support of Proposition 9 on the November General Election ballot. Prop. 9 will provide the first cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) since 2004 for 420,000 Teacher Retirement System of Texas annuitants.No Texas public school retired employee has received a COLA since Sept. 1, 2004. That is 70% of retirement systems retirees. Annuitants are living on an average monthly annuity of just $2,174. More than 140,000 receive $1,000 or less per month.A pension increase for the teacher retirees is needed and is overdue! All retirees are suffering from inflation, but longer-term retirees are hit hardest. Prop. 9 will provide tremendous value to our retirees, which in turn will benefit our local economy. Retired teachers are not eligible to receive Social Security; therefore, a retirement system pension is their primary source of income.Prop. 9 will not create a tax increase. The Texas Legislature has already set aside the funds to make this happen with voter approval using surplus funds. In fact, Prop. 9 had unanimous support from every member of the Texas Legislature.Please show retired educators and the Texas Legislature that you support financial relief for the teacher retirement system annuitants by voting for Prop. 9.

Stephen Evans

Central El Paso

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