Today, City Council decided to give the farm to Great Wolf Resorts, in the form of swathes of land, obscene
Category: TIRZs
The Great Wolf Swindle
The City must have stayed up late figuring out how to swindle the taxpayers with that new Great Wolf Lodge.
Downtown Development Won’t Lower Your Property Taxes
Downtown is covered by Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone #5. You remember those TIRZs. Here’s what the Texas Comptroller says about
Those Gratuitous TIRZs
The City of El Paso is going out of its way to develop some land on the fringe of the
Maybe They’re Sick
When you make decisions behind closed doors, without public input, you better be right. So far, our city hasn’t been
The Trouble With TIRZs
The City of El Paso is proposing another TIRZ. TIRZ 13 will be in Northeast El Paso, up against the
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
As if to illustrate my point, my good friend Chuco Geek had this to say about my most recent article
Cousin Lemp’s Whack-A-Mole Bad Habit
There’s this fallacy circulating that TIRZ 12 means that only the people who buy land up there on the mountain
Are Their Lips Moving?
El Paso Inc. this week had a nice feature on Hunt Companies’ development in Northwest El Paso. Have you been
Mountain Biking Lost Dog
Here’s the City’s latest advertisement promoting some of the wonderful outdoor opportunities we can enjoy here in El Paso. No,
About the Lost Dog TIRZ
Here’s some informed speculation about TIRZ 12, the Lost Dog TIRZ. I think it has something to do with that
More Lies From Our Friends In City Government
Here’s the City’s Economic Development Director spinning the TIRZs: City Council voted to approve the creation of Tax Increment Reinvestment
Sign the Lost Dog Petition
The City thinks the way to make El Paso attractive is to tart her up like a hooker in a
Another More Egregious Open Meeting Violation
From the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas’ Open Meetings Handbook 2018: 2. Section 551.072. Deliberations
More Businesses But Not More Business
Here’s a graphic I lifted from the City’s website, detailing what kind of businesses the City is expecting to move
The First Rule of Operational Security
. . . is that you don’t talk about Operational Security. I bet that they’ve revoked Major Morgan’s security clearance
“OpSec”
That’s the phrase District 4 Representative Sam Morgan used to justify his vote for TIRZ 12 at yesterday’s City Council
Retrovision: Can El Paso Go Bankrupt?
This article originally appeared more than four years ago, on July 30, 2014. I mean, we’re not like other towns.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About TIRZs*
*That the City doesn’t want you to know. What is a Tax Increment Refinancing Zone, anyway? Here’s testimony given to
Uh Oh, Here’s Bad News
See that up there is a screen shot I grabbed off of KVIA’s website. The Hunt Family Foundation is advertising