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Retrovision: Is the City’s Strategic Plan Working for You?

2021-02-07 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, downtown, economic development, retrovision, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

This post originally appeared on 21 February 2020. In 2012, the City of El Paso began implementing a strategic plan

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How To Cripple an Economy

2021-02-04 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, MountainStar Sports Group, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

Economies are delicate ecosystems that develop over time. Agent Orange, or napalm, or diesel fuel might kill a garden, but

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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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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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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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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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