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Retrovision: Forget the Arena

2019-06-02 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee Margo, quality of life projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

This article originally appeared on 8 February 2017. Here’s a feel-good story from the El Paso Times about how few

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Local Government Is Absurd

2019-06-01 elrichiboy arena, City Council, City Management, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, quality of life projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Here’s a Letter to the Editor of the El Paso Times from Lower Valley resident Christopher Falk. Once again the

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What’s It For?

2019-06-01 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Liar Liar, quality of life projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Why are we still trying to build an arena? MountainStar’s not hot on it anymore. They’re worried about their soccer

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The Trouble With Term Limits

2019-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, elections, Politics, Slider 2 comments

Currently, El Paso’s elected officials are limited to two terms in office. That means that once they figure out what’s

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More Debt Per Capita

2019-05-30 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, quality of life projects, Slider One comment

According to the slideshow that accompanies this story from the Austin American Statesman, El Pasoans owe more General Obligation debt

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More Gobbledygook From Our Friends at City Hall

2019-05-30 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee Margo, Liar Liar, quality of life projects, Slider 4 comments

You may have seen that the City refused to compromise on the downtown arena swindle. (Why do all the City’s

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Read ’em and Weep

2019-05-23 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, population, Slider One comment

The numbers we’ve all been waiting for have arrived, and they’re not pretty. Between 2017 and 2018, the population of

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Riding the Decline

2019-05-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Dee Margo, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Our city leaders — all of them, the elected and the economic and the City staff — are managing El

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Retrovision: The Bane of QoL: O & M

2019-05-18 elrichiboy ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, quality of life projects, retrovision, Slider, Taxes One comment

This article originally appeared on 18 December 2014. El Paso is a cash-strapped town. Nobody foresaw that our boom years,

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Welcome to the Apocalypse

2019-05-17 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee Margo, quality of life projects, Slider, trolley 5 comments

It’s happening. This was the sign taped to the door of the Pat O’Rourke Center today. Meanwhile the trolley glides

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The Trouble With TIRZs

2019-05-15 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, public private partnerships, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez, trolley, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

You might no be so pissed off when you wrote that property tax check if your money was going for

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Water Parks = Economic Development

2019-05-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, water parks 3 comments

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. From CBS4Local, in a story headlined New El Paso waterparks bringing economic growth to

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Retrovision: The Real Cost of the Quality of Life Projects

2019-05-03 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee Margo, economic development, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, public private partnerships, quality of life projects, retrovision, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for

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As Goes the Golf Course, So Goes the City

2019-05-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Times, the City isn’t going to bail out the Vista Hills Country

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Will Water Parks Be The New Streetcars? And Other Questions

2019-04-30 elrichiboy ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, cost of living, quality of life projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

In March, KFOX14 reported that the streetcars are a money pit. KFOX14 Investigates learned in the first four months of

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What’s Going on With Lost Dog?

2019-04-23 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, quality of life projects, Slider 7 comments

Today the El Paso City Council had a meeting to discuss their response to the Lost Dog election. Early voting

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Retrovision: Taking a Ride

2019-04-23 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Management, Slider, trolley Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 21 November 2016. How long do you think the trolley will run every day? How

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The Organization Before the Community

2019-04-17 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Management, Dionne Mack, Library, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

The City Manager protects his team. Even when they’re wrong. So if one of his Deputy City Managers decides to

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You’re Out!

2019-04-02 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Dee Margo, economic development, Media, quality of life projects, Slider 4 comments

Here’s an article from Reason that describes the plights of three cities who paid for ballparks. “Any normal business person

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The Effects of Corruption

2019-03-28 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee Margo, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich, Wolf Lodge Resort 2 comments

Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in this interview with the El Paso Inc. Scholarly

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