Remember this story from the March 19 El Paso Inc.? Members of the city’s Ethics Review Commission have been waiting
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The Big Lie
The advocates for the City’s Quality of Life projects pretend that we need ballparks and arenas to spur economic development.
About Those Quality of Life Projects
Advocates of the Quality of Life bonds completely misrepresented the facts before the 2012 elections. They minimized the impact on
The Long Goodbye
The U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimates are out for El Paso County, and the years long trend of flatlined population
It’s All In The Spin
Here’s the headline and lede of a story on KVIA: El Paso makes top 125 list of best places to
Tales From the Morgue
From a May 10, 2012, article in the El Paso Times* written by Cindy Ramirez: The city’s November bond issue
Correction: The Recent City Council Vote To Raise Your Taxes
Recently I wrote that City Council, by increasing El Paso Electric’s Street Rental Fee, cut the reduction to our electric
El Paso is Unique
Marketers like to talk about a product’s Unique Selling Proposition; that is, the things that differentiate a product from other
The City’s Filmmaker Program: Built to Fail
Tuesday City Council voted to give up to $30,000 to local filmmakers for projects produced in El Paso. Of course,
Last Week, City Council Raised Your Taxes
As I mentioned last week, but this time from the El Paso Inc.: The price that El Paso Electric must
“Mayor Sitting on Ethics Revisions”
That’s the front page headline of the El Paso Inc. this weekend. Here’s what it says: Members of the city’s
This Guy Got Beat Up By the (Alleged) Kern Place Dog-Killer
That’s Mark Boykin, the proprieter of Mark’s Cantina. Three years ago Mr. Boykin accused his next door neighbor, Carlos Fernandez,
Retrovision: The Master Plan
I was going to write about the soccer stadium, but I realized that I already did. This post originally appeared
Naysayers, Malcontents, and Liars
Former City Council Representative and Mayoral Candidate and current member of the board of the Downtown Management District Steve Ortega,
Quality of Life
If you found fifty bucks on the street, what would you do with it? Pay down your credit card debt?
The City of El Paso’s New Link Policy Has Nothing To Do With Municipal Golf Courses
Last week I created a link to the Interim Director of Municipal Financial Operations’ presentation to City Council, which contained
Our Local Public Private Partnerships
Public Private Partnerships are all the rage. The ballpark got one. The City is looking to develop luxury apartments on
Seth Godin on Arenas
Seth Godin today talks about cities building stadiums in a column titled The Super Bowl is for Losers. So why
Stuart Blaugrund’s Column in the Times
Stuart Blaugrund “represented a group of Downtown business and property owners who successfully resisted the taking of their properties for
You Break It, You Buy It
Naw, we’ll just stick it to the taxpayers. Woody Hunt is a smart man. He’s studied public corruption. Here’s what