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Economic Indicators

2022-07-06 Rich Wright Downtown, Downtown Management District, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

The El Paso Times reports that the Fallas Department Store in DWNTWN is closing: One of Downtown El Paso’s largest

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Public Meeting Tonight About the Arena

2022-06-23 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Downtown Management District, Gensler, The Arena 4 comments

There is a public meeting tonight at 5:30 to discuss the economic impact of the downtown arena. The meeting will

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Retrovision – Blame It On the Strategic Plan

2022-06-22 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 07 February 2022. If you want to know what’s wrong with governance in El Paso,

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More Good News From EPISD

2022-06-22 Rich Wright EPISD, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

From KVIA.com: The El Paso Independent School District board is expected to vote on increasing teachers’ salaries by 5% —

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Evaluating Our Priorities

2022-06-02 Rich Wright Certificates of Obligation, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, City Management, Claudia Lizette Rodriguez, Isabel Salcido, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

They are coming out of the woodwork (and maybe from under rocks) to weigh in on Tommy Gonzalez’ future. From

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Tommy Gonzalez Doesn’t Like El Paso

2022-05-30 Rich Wright City Council, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Recently, Tommy Gonzalez applied for a job in Frisco, Texas, despite making more than $400,000 a year here. If he

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People Don’t Like Tommy Gonzalez

2022-05-27 Rich Wright City Council, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

At least the taxpayers don’t like him. He’s been here since 2014, and I haven’t met anyone who tells me

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Now That’s a Clean River

2022-05-26 Rich Wright El Paso Water, Slider 6 comments

Good news, everybody. From a May 6, 2022, story on ElPasoTimes.com: El Paso Water completed cleanup on the Rio Grande this

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Retrovision – El Paso, a Metaphor

2022-05-23 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Media, Slider One comment

This post originally appeared on 30 July 2015. El Paso is like that really nice girl with the shitty boyfriend

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David Stout for County Commissioner Precinct 2

2022-05-21 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Elections 2 comments

We’re at war. It’s a class war. We didn’t start it. The richest people in El Paso started it. Over

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Another Salvo in the War on Taxpayers

2022-05-18 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, City Management, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, MountainStar Sports Group, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

The City of El Paso, the El Paso Chamber of Commerce, and MountainStar Sports group are waging a class war

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“Justicia Fronteriza Denounces Extension of Tommy Gonzalez’ Contract”

2022-05-18 Rich Wright City Council, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

The following is a Press Release from Justicia Fronteriza: Justicia Fronteriza PAC is extremely disappointed, but not surprised that a

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Stockholm Syndrome?

2022-05-16 Rich Wright Breaking News, Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Did you see the latest edition of ABC-7 Xtra? I have to wonder what our City Council members are thinking.

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Retrovision – El Paso, (Temporary) Home of the Carpetbaggers

2022-05-13 Rich Wright City Management, Letters to the Editor, Media, Retrovision, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

This post originally appeared on 10 February 2021. You know why there’s so little crime in El Paso? Because we

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Tommy Gonzalez Has Been Cheating On Us

2022-05-11 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 11 comments

You’ve heard the news. El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez is among three other finalists being considered for city manager

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Warren Buffett — The Rich Are Winning the Class War

2022-05-10 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

He said it in a New York Times article back in 2006. “There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said,

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The Wider War

2022-05-06 Rich Wright Politics, Slider, World 3 comments

How about this, from the NYTimes.com: The United States has provided intelligence about Russian units that has allowed Ukrainians to

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Is This What Corruption Looks Like?

2022-05-03 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 9 comments

From ElPasoTimes.com: The [El Paso City Council] voted to hire a San Francisco-based architecture firm to provide an updated cost

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“The Economy is Great. The Middle Class is Mad.”

2022-04-28 Rich Wright The Economy 3 comments

From Time.com: Jeff Swope felt the first spurt of anger bubble up when he learned in February that his landlord

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Retrovision – What’s Wrong With El Paso?

2022-04-26 Rich Wright ballpark, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider 3 comments

This was one of El Chuqueño’s first posts. It originally appeared on 28 August 2012. I like El Paso. What

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