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Economic Development for Whom?

2021-01-16 elrichiboy City Management, economic development, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

From an email from Max Grossman, informing his readers that the Texas Historical Commission approved the designation of the El

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Retrovision – Things Are Great. Just not for Taxpayers.

2021-01-11 elrichiboy ballpark, Boondoggles, economic development, quality of life projects, retrovision, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 29 July 2019. This week there’s a column by the editor of the El Paso

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I Am a Capitalist

2021-01-07 elrichiboy economic development, public private partnerships, quality of life projects, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Even though I don’t own any capital, I am a capitalist. I still believe that capitalism is the most effective

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Are Office Buildings Obsolete?

2021-01-06 elrichiboy Coronavirus, downtown, economic development, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Before buildings had centralized refrigerated air conditioning, windows used to open. There was a little transition period, when the air

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Retrovision: Our local public Private Partnerships

2020-12-17 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, economic development, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 08 February 2018. Public Private Partnerships are all the rage. The ballpark got one. The

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La Feria on Avenida Juarez

2020-12-10 elrichiboy economic development, Juarez, Slider 5 comments

Downtown Juarez was my third place. The third place is the place that’s neither home nor work. The place you

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Their Present is Our Future

2020-12-03 elrichiboy economic development, Education, Hot Hits, Juarez, Slider 4 comments

Across the river from UTEP, Colonia Felipe Angeles is poor. And it’s not even the poorest neighborhood in Juarez. Colonia

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Retrovision: The Effects of Corruption

2020-11-16 elrichiboy City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, retrovision, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 28 March 2019. Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in

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Retrovision: Dee Margo’s Task Force

2020-11-14 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, Slider One comment

This post originally appeared on 23 April 2020. Good news, everybody. Sure, people are dying, and the economy’s in the

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What Is CooL?

2020-11-12 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, economic development, Slider 3 comments

For marketers, cool is the holy grail. Mostly, marketers find cool after it’s been discovered and try to monetize it,

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The Government and the Governed

2020-11-09 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, economic development, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 15 comments

El Paso is culturally unique. There is no other place in the world like El Paso. The U.S. Census Bureau’s

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Retrovision: Amazon Is Coming

2020-10-20 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 26 July 2020. From the El Paso Times: Amazon, the giant online retailer, plans to open

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The Oligarchs are Trying to Steal This Election

2020-10-19 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, elections, Henry Rivera, Joyce Wilson, Media, Politics, Sam Morgan, Slider, Taxes 10 comments

First it was that dark money campaign to “Support Our Leaders”. Now it’s this email from Woody Hunt. From: Woody Hunt

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Retrovision: Rancho El Paso

2020-10-14 elrichiboy arena, Borderplex Alliance, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, Ethics, Slider 2 comments

This article originally appeared on 10 March 2017. Our City Fathers would have you believe that El Paso is a

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What Has the City Done for You Lately?

2020-10-05 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, Slider, Technology, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

The El Paso Inc. reports that the City bought the County’s old 911 phone center building in downtown El Paso

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The Destruction of Brand El Paso

2020-09-17 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, The "Progressives", Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

What does “El Paso” mean to you? I threw quotes around it because I want to talk about the idea

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The Problem With El Paso

2020-09-10 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Urban Planning 8 comments

The problem is El Paso’s not growing. All the costs of those Quality of Life projects would be easier to

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We Could Have Had City-Wide High-Speed Internet Instead

2020-08-05 elrichiboy ballpark, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, Great Wolf Resorts, quality of life projects, Slider 3 comments

You know I’ve been saying that the real cost of all those vanity projects for the leisure class is what

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El Paso’s Climate Refugees

2020-07-31 elrichiboy Climate Change, economic development, Migration, Slider 8 comments

Here’s a long read from ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine: Conjoined to the Mexican city of Juárez, the

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Amazon is Coming

2020-07-26 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, Slider 3 comments

From the El Paso Times: Amazon, the giant online retailer, plans to open one of its distribution centers in El Paso, company

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