The El Paso Inc. this week came out with this enticing story: An El Paso businessman has commissioned an independent
Category: Dee Margo
The City’s Streetcar Fetish
The City is facing budget shortfalls while the trolley is bleeding money because of a lack of riders. The obvious
BUSINESS VS. BUSINESSES
Rising property taxes don’t help small businesses. And all these vanity projects aren’t making the pie any bigger. Where is
Just Like Democracy. Except not.
Did you hear about the latest attempt by your favorite City Council to stifle any voice of dissent? From the
Our Salvation is at Hand
Good news from this week’s El Paso Inc. The El Paso Community Foundation and the former El Paso Times executive
Retrovision: Forget the Arena
This article originally appeared on 8 February 2017. Here’s a feel-good story from the El Paso Times about how few
More Gobbledygook From Our Friends at City Hall
You may have seen that the City refused to compromise on the downtown arena swindle. (Why do all the City’s
Mayor Margo, I Apologize
Yesterday I called the Mayor a liar because he made the following statement to his constituents regarding the City’s population
The Mayor is a Liar
At about 25 minutes into this Facebook video (recorded by Ben Carnevale) Mayor Dee Margo claims that “between 2012 to
Riding the Decline
Our city leaders — all of them, the elected and the economic and the City staff — are managing El
Welcome to the Apocalypse
It’s happening. This was the sign taped to the door of the Pat O’Rourke Center today. Meanwhile the trolley glides
The Trouble With TIRZs
You might no be so pissed off when you wrote that property tax check if your money was going for
Was Lost Dog a Referendum on City Government?
Max Grossman points out the the ballot ordinance to save Lost Dog got more votes than Mayor Dee Margo did
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
What’s Going on With Lost Dog?
Today the El Paso City Council had a meeting to discuss their response to the Lost Dog election. Early voting
You’re Out!
Here’s an article from Reason that describes the plights of three cities who paid for ballparks. “Any normal business person
The Effects of Corruption
Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in this interview with the El Paso Inc. Scholarly
Corruption: The Short Version
The City of El Paso is trading 2,313 acres adjacent to the golf course in Northeast El Paso to Paul
Smells Like Corruption
If the people who run the El Paso City Government are not totally corrupt, they’re grossly incompetent. Take that Great
Who Dropped the Soap?
Here’s another informative piece from Vic Kolenc of the El Paso Times, headlined El Paso Water board breaks land-sale drought