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What’s Wrong With the Ballpark

2020-12-16 elrichiboy ballpark, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

The baseball stadium is nice. Real nice. One of the nicest ballparks in the country, and one of the nicest

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Retrovision: The Master Plan

2020-12-12 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 22 October, 2017. How MountainStar Wants to Get You to Pay for Their Futbol Stadium

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The Bets are In

2020-12-11 elrichiboy City Council, Dee Margo, elections, MountainStar Sports Group, Sam Morgan, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

The latest Campaign Finance Reports are interesting. MountainStar Sports Group has picked their favorites. Mayor Dee Margo received $23,031.48 from

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“Will You Support a Taxpayer Funded Soccer Stadium?”

2020-11-16 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, City Council, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Joyce Wilson, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 8 comments

That’s the question we should be asking candidates this election cycle. In the next four years, City Council will probably

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Community First Coalition’s “Does El Paso City Hall Represent you?”

2020-09-25 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, elections, Ethics, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, video 2 comments
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“Throw a Billion Dollars from the Helicopter”

2020-06-27 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Joyce Wilson, MountainStar Sports Group, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Here’s a scathing article from Reason.com about cities building stadiums. Throw a Billion Dollars from the Helicopter is a new

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Beisbol Been Very Very Good to Me

2020-05-21 elrichiboy ballpark, economic development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 10 comments

Minor league baseball is up against the wall, and it’s not because they’re trying to field a long ball to

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The City Wants to Give MountainStar a Soccer Stadium

2020-04-29 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, Urban Planning 10 comments

At yesterday’s City Council meeting, your Representatives voted 5-2 to support TxDOT’s plan to widen the freeway downtown. You won’t

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No Pro Sports in the Arena?

2020-02-11 elrichiboy arena, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, downtown, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

Didn’t you think that the proposed downtown arena was for professional sports? Wasn’t there a lot of talk about an

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Seis Banderas

2019-12-30 elrichiboy Juarez, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, water parks Leave a comment

According to El Diario de Juarez, MountainStar Sports Group is trying to put a big theme park in Cd. Juarez’

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Trench Warfare

2019-08-12 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

Those nice people at the Texas Department of Transportation are considering widening the freeway in Downtown El Paso, eliminating lots

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Business Community: Not In My Backyard

2019-03-26 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Chamber of Commerce, Gratuitous Snark, MountainStar Sports Group 2 comments

Oh, the irony. From Aaron Montes at the El Paso Times: A large warehouse built 19 years ago in West

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Pity the Rich

2019-02-13 elrichiboy ballpark, Boondoggles, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Those poor little rich folk. They can’t go to dive bars, or downtown Juarez. They’ll never know the joys of

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“The True Cost of Corruption”

2018-11-04 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, economic development, MountainStar Sports Group, quality of life projects 2 comments

Oh, the irony. Here’s a great interview from the September 8, 2009, issue of the El Paso Inc. with an

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You Break It, You Buy It

2018-01-26 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, City Council, economic development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Naw, we’ll just stick it to the taxpayers. Woody Hunt is a smart man. He’s studied public corruption. Here’s what

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Ballpark Numbers Updated

2018-01-05 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, City Council, downtown, economic development, MountainStar Sports Group, quality of life projects 4 comments

An alert reader sent me this spreadsheet which shows the actual numbers for the ballpark. Four years in and we’re

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All I Want is Good Government

2017-10-31 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, economic development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, MountainStar Sports Group, Politics, quality of life projects 5 comments

That’s all I want. Government responsive to the needs of its citizens. All its citizens. Not just the campaign donors.

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MountainStar Sports Group Soccer Survey

2017-10-17 elrichiboy arena, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, sports 5 comments

MountainStar contracted with a sports marketing management consulting company to conduct a survey to gauge El Paso’s interest in their

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The Emperor’s New Clothes

2017-09-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, economic development, MountainStar Sports Group, quality of life projects, Taxes Leave a comment

The El Paso Inc. ran a guest column this week. This year, TEDx ElPaso’s theme, “Your city, Your design,” is

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Does That Tickle?

2017-09-08 elrichiboy arena, MountainStar Sports Group 2 comments

That’s the local billionaires sticking their hands in your pockets. They want to make sure they haven’t overlooked any pennies

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