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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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We Should Start Thinking What Bankruptcy Will Look Like

2020-09-27 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

El Pasoans aren’t getting any younger. True fact: We’re all either dead or getting older. (Today in the A Section

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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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The Death of Democracy in El Paso

2020-08-17 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Joyce Wilson, quality of life projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Did you have a voice in the political process when City Council announced on a Thursday that they were going

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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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The Fiscal Ship is Sinking

2020-07-06 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, quality of life projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Here’s a news flash from the El Paso Inc.: El Paso leads major Texas cities in debt not approved by

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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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Economic Development?

2020-06-04 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, El Paso Electric Company, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Y’all remember when they pitched those 2102 Quality of Life bonds, they said it was “an economic development issue”. Here’s

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“Card Tricks: How El Paso’s 2012 ‘Quality of Life’ Bond Election Got Riddled With Flimflam”

2020-05-28 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Joyce Wilson, quality of life projects, Slider, The "Progressives" One comment

Here’s a piece on Medium.com written by veteran reporter Debbie Nathan, chronicling the run-up to the election. . . .

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The Lies They Tell Us

2020-04-27 elrichiboy arena, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Tomorrow the El Paso City Council will vote on a measure to indefinitely postpone the proposed arena in Duranguito. Let’s

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The Alternate Realities of Living in El Paso

2020-03-17 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

The people running El Paso are delusional. They’re drunk. Drunk on power and ego. They latched onto this idea that

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El Paso’s PDNG Hangover

2019-11-25 elrichiboy Dee Margo, economic development, Great Wolf Resorts, Media, public private partnerships, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Y’all remember the Paso del Norte Group. Back in the aughts, they were going to launch El Paso’s renaissance. They

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Brain Drain, Jobs, and Quality of Life

2019-11-06 elrichiboy economic development, quality of life projects, Slider 2 comments

Which improves your quality of life more? A good paying job, or ballparks, water parks, and and arenas? Fiscal profligacy

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Retrovision: They’re Bullies

2019-10-05 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, quality of life projects, retrovision, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 14 August 2018. Did you see this story on KVIA? Texas oilman J.P. Bryan, one

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Opportunity Costs

2019-10-04 elrichiboy ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, Great Wolf Resorts, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, water parks 4 comments

The City of El Paso is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on stuff we don’t need. City Council [will

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Retrovision: The City’s Plan Sucks.

2019-10-03 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, public private partnerships, quality of life projects, retrovision, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

This article originally appeared on 03 May 2018. The City of El Paso is implementing a plan that some rich

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The Future Revealed!

2019-09-25 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

I can’t imagine the City of El Paso keeping next year’s budget under an amount that won’t require at least

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The Arena Saga That Wouldn’t Die

2019-09-24 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, Ethics, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

I lifted this from David Crowder’s article about the Downtown arena that appeared in the El Paso Inc. this weekend.

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