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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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Our Political Class

2019-09-23 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Corruption, quality of life projects, Slider 6 comments

Somehow, El Paso developed professional politicians. Okay, the development of professional politicians was intentional. Corrupt power brokers recruited electable candidates

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Change is Hard

2019-09-18 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, downtown, economic development, Education, quality of life projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Uncategorized 9 comments

About ten years ago, the people who really run things in El Paso decided that the city needed public amenities

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The 3.5% Solution

2019-09-05 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Henry Rivera, quality of life projects, Sam Morgan, Slider, water parks 2 comments

You’ve probably heard that the Texas Legislature reduced the rollback rate to 3.5%. Here’s the skinny from the Texas Tribune.

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The Business of Government

2019-08-15 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, water parks 5 comments

I lifted some slides from City Manager Tommy Gonzalez’ presentation on the water parks to City Council. Like this one:

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Revelation

2019-08-10 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, economic development, Great Wolf Resorts, quality of life projects, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 8 comments

They said it was about Economic Development. They said that once we built those Quality of Life projects, companies would

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What’s Good for the Goose

2019-08-02 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, Breaking News, Dee Margo, Ethics, quality of life projects, Slider One comment

Popular Italian tenor Max Grossman sent me an email this week that contained this interesting information: The Mayor of El

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Retrovision: The Borderplex Alliance’s New Strategic Plan: A Critique

2019-08-01 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 03 June 2015. How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars. —

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Clank Clank Clank Went the Trolley

2019-07-30 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, trolley 4 comments

The El Paso Times reported yesterday on the City’s streetcar debacle. Sun Metro officials are looking for ways to boost

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Things Are Great. Just not for Taxpayers.

2019-07-29 elrichiboy ballpark, Boondoggles, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This week there’s a column by the editor of the El Paso Inc. about how great DWNTWN is doing. Property

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Quality of Life

2019-07-09 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, How to Live in El Paso, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

What makes for a good quality of life? I may be shallow, but my Quality of Life is improved when

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It’s All Tommy G

2019-07-02 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 10 comments

Look, when they hired him, they told him that we were sitting on a half a billion dollars of Quality

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“And the Winner Is . . .”

2019-06-27 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

Yay! We’re Number 1 on another list! The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy has come out with their list of

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Retrovision: Forget the Arena

2019-06-02 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee Margo, quality of life projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

This article originally appeared on 8 February 2017. Here’s a feel-good story from the El Paso Times about how few

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Local Government Is Absurd

2019-06-01 elrichiboy arena, City Council, City Management, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, quality of life projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Here’s a Letter to the Editor of the El Paso Times from Lower Valley resident Christopher Falk. Once again the

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What’s It For?

2019-06-01 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Liar Liar, quality of life projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Why are we still trying to build an arena? MountainStar’s not hot on it anymore. They’re worried about their soccer

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