Those nice people at the Texas Department of Transportation are considering widening the freeway in Downtown El Paso, eliminating lots
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Revelation
They said it was about Economic Development. They said that once we built those Quality of Life projects, companies would
Retrovision: The Borderplex Alliance’s New Strategic Plan: A Critique
This post originally appeared on 03 June 2015. How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars. —
Things Are Great. Just not for Taxpayers.
This week there’s a column by the editor of the El Paso Inc. about how great DWNTWN is doing. Property
Retrovision: What’s Wrong With El Paso
This post originally appeared on 27 August 2012, shortly after man harnessed fire and before the invention of the wheel.
It’s All Tommy G
Look, when they hired him, they told him that we were sitting on a half a billion dollars of Quality
“And the Winner Is . . .”
Yay! We’re Number 1 on another list! The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy has come out with their list of
Retrovision: The Economic Impact of a Downtown Baseball Stadium
This article originally appeared on 07 August 2012. Are they crazy? Seventy-one games a year. Four hours a game, including
Retrovision: Hubris, and an Attack on Democracy
This post originally appeared on October 3, 2017. They felt the wind and thought it was their own breath. When
Retrovision: Does El Paso Need Downtown Development?
This piece originally appeared on 13 August 2012. All across American, downtowns are in trouble. They’re dead, or dying. It’s
Retrovision: The Bane of QoL: O & M
This article originally appeared on 18 December 2014. El Paso is a cash-strapped town. Nobody foresaw that our boom years,
The Trouble With TIRZs
You might no be so pissed off when you wrote that property tax check if your money was going for
Retrovision: The Real Cost of the Quality of Life Projects
This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for
Will Water Parks Be The New Streetcars? And Other Questions
In March, KFOX14 reported that the streetcars are a money pit. KFOX14 Investigates learned in the first four months of
Pity the Rich
Those poor little rich folk. They can’t go to dive bars, or downtown Juarez. They’ll never know the joys of
John Stossel on Stadiums
On the occasion of Super Bowl LIII, John Stossel reminds us. Fortunately, we’re smarter than that. Aren’t we?
“The True Cost of Corruption”
Oh, the irony. Here’s a great interview from the September 8, 2009, issue of the El Paso Inc. with an
Maybe They’re Sick
When you make decisions behind closed doors, without public input, you better be right. So far, our city hasn’t been
Open Government
According to Wikipedia, Open government is the governing doctrine which holds that citizens have the right to access the documents
Retrovision: About Those Quality of Life Projects
This article originally appeared on 19 April 2018, but let me say it again. Advocates of the Quality of Life