Summaries of the records on the Amarillo Ledger, and labeled opinion.https://amarilloledger.com/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/city-managers-turnover/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/city-managers-turnover/Amarillo has had eight changes in the city manager's office in eleven years, counting interim and acting managers. The last two permanent managers cost taxpayers more than $1.2 million to let go, and in neither case has the City told the public why.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTOpinionCity managershttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/crmwa-summary/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/crmwa-summary/The next big water project on Amarillo's horizon: a second pipeline called CRMWA II.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryCRMWA IIhttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/crmwa-cost/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/crmwa-cost/How much will CRMWA II cost? $401.8 million, $767.8 million or $1.2 billion, depending on which document you read.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryCRMWA IIhttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/crmwa-water/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/crmwa-water/Why build a second pipeline? CRMWA gives three reasons, and the first is Lake Meredith.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryCRMWA IIhttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/crmwa-fermi/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/crmwa-fermi/Is CRMWA II being built for Fermi's Project Matador? Nothing we've found says so.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryCRMWA IIhttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/debt-approval/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/debt-approval/Who approved Amarillo's debt? Less and less of it was you.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryCity debthttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/debt-unspent/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/debt-unspent/In 2020 the City borrowed $28.5 million from the state to put smart meters on every home. Five years later, $15.6 million of it still hadn't been spent, according to the City's own debt schedule for Sept. 30, 2025.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryCity debthttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/debt-payments/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/debt-payments/Borrowing is the easy part. Here's the bill.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryCity debthttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/debt-pensions/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/debt-pensions/The $538.3 million in bonds isn't everything the City of Amarillo owes. Some of the biggest obligations never show up as "debt."Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryCity debthttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/matador-summary/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/matador-summary/Fifteen miles northeast of Amarillo, next to Pantex, Fermi Inc. is planning a power plant and AI data-center campus it calls Project Matador. Here's what's actually on paper, and what it means for Amarillo.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryProject Matadorhttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/matador-water/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/matador-water/How much of Amarillo's water is going to Project Matador? Depends which document you read.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryProject Matadorhttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/matador-nrc/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/matador-nrc/You have until Monday, Nov. 23 to comment on the environmental review for four nuclear reactors 15 miles from Amarillo.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryProject Matadorhttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/matador-jobs/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/matador-jobs/Project Matador has been sold on jobs: "over 9,000" at peak, in Fermi's projections as reported by the Amarillo Tribune.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryProject Matadorhttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/matador-money/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/matador-money/Project Matador's price tag is $70 to $90 billion, by Fermi's own estimate. Phase 0 and Phase 1 alone are over $3 billion.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTOpinionProject Matadorhttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/revenue-summary/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/revenue-summary/We've spent this month on what the City of Amarillo owes. Now: where its money comes from.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryCity revenuehttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/revenue-property/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/revenue-property/Every year, the county tax offices calculate a "no-new-revenue" rate for the City of Amarillo: the rate that would collect about the same property tax from the same properties as the year before.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryCity revenuehttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/revenue-budget/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/revenue-budget/How well does the City of Amarillo's budget predict what actually happens? We checked five years of the City's audited reports.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTOpinionCity revenuehttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/revenue-water/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/revenue-water/This is the number behind your water rate increases.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryCity revenuehttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/revenue-grants/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/revenue-grants/From FY2021 through FY2025, the City of Amarillo spent $244.2 million from federal awards, according to its single audit reports.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryCity revenuehttps://amarilloledger.com/editorial/debt-summary/https://amarilloledger.com/editorial/debt-summary/The City of Amarillo owes $538.3 million. That's $2,642 for every resident, up from $198.5 million ten years ago.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMTSummaryCity debt