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Six Feet High and Rising

2019-08-30 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, cost of living, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Well, lookie here. The dead tree edition of the El Paso Times reports that our County’s Hospital District is raising

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The Cost of Living Well

2019-08-20 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, cost of living, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

Apparently our elected officials of the County Commissioners Court are giving themselves about a twenty percent raise next year. This

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Retrovision: What’s Wrong With El Paso

2019-07-17 elrichiboy ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, cost of living, Slider 5 comments

This post originally appeared on 27 August 2012, shortly after man harnessed fire and before the invention of the wheel.

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EPEC’s Falling Bond Rating

2019-07-16 elrichiboy Boondoggles, cost of living, El Paso Electric Company, Slider Leave a comment

Another story from the El Paso Inc.: El Paso Electric has been placed on review for downgrade by one of

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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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Retrovision: More Rate Increases

2018-12-08 elrichiboy cost of living, retrovision, Slider Leave a comment

[This article originally appeared on May 18, 2017.] El Paso’s English language daily reports that Texas Gas, i.e., the gas

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Clunk Clunk

2018-10-17 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, cost of living 2 comments

In a report that will surprise no one, tripnet.org informs us that the roads in El Paso are some of

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From the People Who Brought You “It’s All Good”

2018-10-15 Rich Wright Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, cost of living, economic development, It's All Good, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

If you needed more proof of El Paso’s corrupt, inbred, good old boy network, consider this: Bill Burton, the mastermind

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Retrovision: The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2018-08-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, cost of living, economic development, Education, quality of life projects, Taxes One 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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The Central Appraisal District Responds

2018-08-01 Rich Wright cost of living, Taxes 4 comments

Yesterday a loyal reader sent one of my articles to Dinah Kilgore, the Executive Director and Chief Appraiser of the

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Mo’ Taxes, Mo’ Problems

2018-07-31 Rich Wright Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, cost of living, Taxes 2 comments

If you’re happy with the way things are going at City Hall, you’re not paying attention. The El Paso Times

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“Some Cities Are Screwed”

2018-06-16 elrichiboy City Council, cost of living, economic development, Taxes 3 comments

An alert reader sent me this relevant article from Salon: [A]s the adage goes, all economics is local. One part

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To What Ends?

2018-05-21 elrichiboy cost of living, Taxes, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Here’s the latest on the Tax Increment Refinancing Zone below Transmountain that the City is trying to ram through, from

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Mo’ Taxes

2018-05-09 elrichiboy City Council, cost of living, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

The City offered up their newly minted Chief Financial Officer to defend our sky high tax rates. Here’s David Crowder

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“You’re Too Stupid to Understand”

2018-05-02 elrichiboy City Council, cost of living, economic development, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

From KVIA’s story about the City’s mounting debt: “The city is being very responsible with the way we’re issuing debt,”

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Feeding the Neighbor’s Dog

2018-05-01 elrichiboy City Council, cost of living, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Is city government representing you? Or is it working for the fat cats who have a financial interest in all

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Government Only Grows

2018-05-01 elrichiboy City Council, cost of living, Taxes One comment

The difference between government and a junkie is that a junkie might quit. Once taxes go up, they are never

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Second Highest Tax Rate In The Nation

2018-04-30 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, cost of living, Taxes 5 comments

According to Lincoln Institute’s 50 State Property Tax Comparison, El Paso has the second highest homestead property tax rate among

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It’s Only (Your) Money

2018-04-23 elrichiboy City Council, cost of living, economic development, Taxes 3 comments

From this weekend’s El Paso Inc.: We hear the deal is done, and there’s an announcement coming soon. What deal?

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About Those Quality of Life Projects

2018-04-19 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, cost of living, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Advocates of the Quality of Life bonds completely misrepresented the facts before the 2012 elections. They minimized the impact on

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