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More Debt Per Capita

2019-05-30 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, quality of life projects, Slider One comment

According to the slideshow that accompanies this story from the Austin American Statesman, El Pasoans owe more General Obligation debt

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More Gobbledygook From Our Friends at City Hall

2019-05-30 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee Margo, Liar Liar, quality of life projects, Slider 4 comments

You may have seen that the City refused to compromise on the downtown arena swindle. (Why do all the City’s

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Mayor Margo, I Apologize

2019-05-24 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Corrections, Dee Margo, Ethics, Great Wolf Resorts, Liar Liar, quality of life projects 2 comments

Yesterday I called the Mayor a liar because he made the following statement to his constituents regarding the City’s population

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Riding the Decline

2019-05-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Dee Margo, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Our city leaders — all of them, the elected and the economic and the City staff — are managing El

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Retrovision: The Bane of QoL: O & M

2019-05-18 elrichiboy ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, quality of life projects, retrovision, Slider, Taxes One comment

This article originally appeared on 18 December 2014. El Paso is a cash-strapped town. Nobody foresaw that our boom years,

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Welcome to the Apocalypse

2019-05-17 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee Margo, quality of life projects, Slider, trolley 5 comments

It’s happening. This was the sign taped to the door of the Pat O’Rourke Center today. Meanwhile the trolley glides

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The Trouble With TIRZs

2019-05-15 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, public private partnerships, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez, trolley, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

You might no be so pissed off when you wrote that property tax check if your money was going for

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Common Sense

2019-05-10 elrichiboy Boondoggles, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Here’s an ad from Britain’s Labour Party which has some relevance for our local tax policies. But you know what

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Was Lost Dog a Referendum on City Government?

2019-05-07 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, Dee Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Lost Dog, quality of life projects, Slider 6 comments

Max Grossman points out the the ballot ordinance to save Lost Dog got more votes than Mayor Dee Margo did

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Water Parks = Economic Development

2019-05-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, water parks 3 comments

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. From CBS4Local, in a story headlined New El Paso waterparks bringing economic growth to

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Retrovision: The Real Cost of the Quality of Life Projects

2019-05-03 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee Margo, economic development, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, public private partnerships, quality of life projects, retrovision, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for

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Will Water Parks Be The New Streetcars? And Other Questions

2019-04-30 elrichiboy ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, cost of living, quality of life projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

In March, KFOX14 reported that the streetcars are a money pit. KFOX14 Investigates learned in the first four months of

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Migration analysis from Robert Moore

2019-04-25 elrichiboy Boondoggles, quality of life projects, Slider Leave a comment

Aspiring journalist Robert Moore recently reported on El Paso’s stagnant population growth for Borderzine, UTEP’s online magazIne for aspiring journalists.

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What’s Going on With Lost Dog?

2019-04-23 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, quality of life projects, Slider 7 comments

Today the El Paso City Council had a meeting to discuss their response to the Lost Dog election. Early voting

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Adios, Amigo

2019-04-19 elrichiboy Boondoggles, economic development, Liar Liar, quality of life projects 6 comments

Remember all those reasons the bond advocates used to peddle those Quality of Life bonds? “Residential property owners are shouldering

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The Organization Before the Community

2019-04-17 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Management, Dionne Mack, Library, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

The City Manager protects his team. Even when they’re wrong. So if one of his Deputy City Managers decides to

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You’re Out!

2019-04-02 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Dee Margo, economic development, Media, quality of life projects, Slider 4 comments

Here’s an article from Reason that describes the plights of three cities who paid for ballparks. “Any normal business person

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The Effects of Corruption

2019-03-28 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee Margo, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in this interview with the El Paso Inc. Scholarly

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Mom and Dad Are Fighting

2019-02-18 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee Margo, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

You probably saw this op-ed in the Times, where former mayor John Cook and ex-City Manager Joyce Wilson defend their

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KVIA’s Special Report on QOL Cost Overruns

2019-02-08 elrichiboy arena, City Council, City Management, Dee Margo, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

KVIA delivered a Special Report last night on the Quality of Life bond projects cost overruns. It’s entertaining. Just spitballing,

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