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The City’s Decision Making Process

2018-09-19 Rich Wright Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Politics, quality of life projects, Slider 2 comments

We saw it yesterday at City Council. City Council holds discussions behind closed doors, and then presents their decision to

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Maybe They’re Sick

2018-09-14 Rich Wright arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, quality of life projects, TIRZs, trolley, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

When you make decisions behind closed doors, without public input, you better be right. So far, our city hasn’t been

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Open Government

2018-09-03 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, economic development, political advertisement, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

According to Wikipedia, Open government is the governing doctrine which holds that citizens have the right to access the documents

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The Quest for Continuity

2018-08-27 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, economic development, elections, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes One comment

Remember? They told us that hiring City Managers for ten years would provide “continuity.” The problem is compounded by our

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A Public Obscenity

2018-08-03 Rich Wright arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, political advertisement, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

I think it’s obscene that the City of El Paso asks the working poor to pay for luxury amenities for

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Retrovision: The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2018-08-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, cost of living, economic development, Education, quality of life projects, Taxes One 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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Deus Ex Machina Redux

2018-08-02 Rich Wright Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider One comment

When Representative Dr. Sam Morgan talked about Operational Security and him knowing things that we didn’t know, I hope he

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City Council Raises Taxes! Again! And Again!

2018-07-24 Rich Wright Boondoggles, quality of life projects, Taxes One comment

At a Special Meeting on Monday, City Council approved an additional $20 million in Certificates of Obligation for the Children’s

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Bloomberg on Publicly Funded Stadiums

2018-07-19 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, Commissioners Court, economic development, public private partnerships, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

An alert reader pointed out that this week Bloomberg.com, that bastion of liberal thinking, ran an article called Four Reasons

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Murmurs: El Paso Public Library = Chicano Memorial Museum

2018-06-19 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

The word in the smoke-filled back rooms of the the back alleys of the side streets of the halls of

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Joel Is Right

2018-06-14 elrichiboy Boondoggles, economic development, Politics, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

There are lots of places where people can live and El Paso is one of them. Unfortunately for the El

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If You Build It, Will They Come?

2018-06-04 elrichiboy Boondoggles, economic development, public private partnerships, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

This, from KTSM: City Council approved a controversial proposal Tuesday to create a special taxing zone to spur development along

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El Paso Grows By Four Tenths of One Percent

2018-05-30 elrichiboy economic development, quality of life projects Leave a comment

According to estimates just released by the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of the City of El Paso grew by

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Retrovision: More On Dwntwn

2018-05-28 elrichiboy downtown, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider 4 comments

This article originally appeared on November 11, 2013. By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about

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That Children’s Museum Will Be Free, Right?

2018-05-24 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes One comment

Did you hear that the City of El Paso, along with some private investors, are going to build a Children’s

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Mo’ Taxes

2018-05-09 elrichiboy City Council, cost of living, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

The City offered up their newly minted Chief Financial Officer to defend our sky high tax rates. Here’s David Crowder

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We’re Number One!

2018-04-30 elrichiboy City Council, economic development, Politics, quality of life projects, School Districts, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

No, not for some made up cost-of-living click bait. For taxes! Property tax rates for industrial properties, to be specific.

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The Big Lie

2018-04-23 elrichiboy arena, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider 3 comments

The advocates for the City’s Quality of Life projects pretend that we need ballparks and arenas to spur economic development.

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About Those Quality of Life Projects

2018-04-19 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, cost of living, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Advocates of the Quality of Life bonds completely misrepresented the facts before the 2012 elections. They minimized the impact on

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Tales From the Morgue

2018-04-12 elrichiboy City Council, quality of life projects, Slider One comment

From a May 10, 2012, article in the El Paso Times* written by Cindy Ramirez: The city’s November bond issue

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