City Management Archives – Page 3 of 8

How El Paso Lost the Election

2019-11-08 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, elections, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

I don’t know it you noticed, but the citizens of El Paso lost that election the other day. The City

The Consequences of Income Inequality in El Chuco

2019-10-31 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, Slider 3 comments

The citizens of the City of El Paso are suffering from bad decisions stemming from wealth and income inequality. Our

The Case Against Gentrification

2019-10-28 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, economic development, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

El Paso City Government, and the multimillionaires driving the truck, are intent on forcing top-down gentrification on the city. Here’s

Catching Up on Deferred Maintenance

2019-10-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes One comment

Tommy G has been City Manager for about seven years. Don’t you think that some of this deferred maintenance that

A Rose By Any Other Name

2019-10-21 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, El Paso Electric Company, Great Wolf Resorts, Liar Liar, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Here’s a story from KVIA: El Paso City Council members have approved spending more than a million dollars to renovate

You Can’t Trust the City

2019-10-15 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

The City is asking us to approve $413,112,650 worth of bonds in an upcoming election. Early voting starts next week.

Pay to Play

2019-10-13 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Here’s a post from PayToPlayLawBlog.com, printed in its entirety. Trends regarding the enactment of pay-to-play legislation remain remarkably consistent and

Late to the Party

2019-10-09 elrichiboy ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, It's All Good, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

I hate to say I told you so, but . . . From the El Paso Times: Data show El Paso’s

Retrovision: They’re Bullies

2019-10-05 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, quality of life projects, retrovision, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 14 August 2018. Did you see this story on KVIA? Texas oilman J.P. Bryan, one

Opportunity Costs

2019-10-04 elrichiboy ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, Great Wolf Resorts, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, water parks 4 comments

The City of El Paso is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on stuff we don’t need. City Council [will

Retrovision: The City’s Plan Sucks.

2019-10-03 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, public private partnerships, quality of life projects, retrovision, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

This article originally appeared on 03 May 2018. The City of El Paso is implementing a plan that some rich

The ROI of Campaign Donations

2019-10-03 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

Deciphering what’s happening at City Hall is like trying to see the truth through a cracked crystal. From CBS4Local.com: The

Naysayers, Malcontents, and Crazies

2019-10-02 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Back in 2012, when our city leaders were selling their plan to pimp El Paso, those of us who raised

Down the Economic Development Rabbit Hole

2019-09-27 elrichiboy City Management, economic development, population, public private partnerships, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Brutus had a good post at ElPasoSpeak.com yesterday. His post included this slide: Perhaps you’ll remember this article titled Whose

Retrovision: EL PASO’S BLEAK FUTURE: A CONTRARIAN VIEW

2019-09-26 elrichiboy ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, economic development, retrovision, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 26 December 2012. If any of our current elected officials claim that they couldn’t have

The Future Revealed!

2019-09-25 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

I can’t imagine the City of El Paso keeping next year’s budget under an amount that won’t require at least

The Arena Saga That Wouldn’t Die

2019-09-24 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, Ethics, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

I lifted this from David Crowder’s article about the Downtown arena that appeared in the El Paso Inc. this weekend.

Our Political Class

2019-09-23 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Corruption, quality of life projects, Slider 6 comments

Somehow, El Paso developed professional politicians. Okay, the development of professional politicians was intentional. Corrupt power brokers recruited electable candidates