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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This article originally appeared on 14 August 2018. Did you see this story on KVIA? Texas oilman J.P. Bryan, one
The City of El Paso is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on stuff we don’t need. City Council [will
This article originally appeared on 03 May 2018. The City of El Paso is implementing a plan that some rich
I can’t imagine the City of El Paso keeping next year’s budget under an amount that won’t require at least
I lifted this from David Crowder’s article about the Downtown arena that appeared in the El Paso Inc. this weekend.
Somehow, El Paso developed professional politicians. Okay, the development of professional politicians was intentional. Corrupt power brokers recruited electable candidates
About ten years ago, the people who really run things in El Paso decided that the city needed public amenities
You’ve probably heard that the Texas Legislature reduced the rollback rate to 3.5%. Here’s the skinny from the Texas Tribune.
I lifted some slides from City Manager Tommy Gonzalez’ presentation on the water parks to City Council. Like this one:
They said it was about Economic Development. They said that once we built those Quality of Life projects, companies would
Popular Italian tenor Max Grossman sent me an email this week that contained this interesting information: The Mayor of El
This post originally appeared on 03 June 2015. How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars. —
The El Paso Times reported yesterday on the City’s streetcar debacle. Sun Metro officials are looking for ways to boost
This week there’s a column by the editor of the El Paso Inc. about how great DWNTWN is doing. Property
What makes for a good quality of life? I may be shallow, but my Quality of Life is improved when
Look, when they hired him, they told him that we were sitting on a half a billion dollars of Quality
Yay! We’re Number 1 on another list! The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy has come out with their list of
This article originally appeared on 8 February 2017. Here’s a feel-good story from the El Paso Times about how few
Here’s a Letter to the Editor of the El Paso Times from Lower Valley resident Christopher Falk. Once again the
Why are we still trying to build an arena? MountainStar’s not hot on it anymore. They’re worried about their soccer