The City made a big deal out of not raising the tax rate this year, despite losing revenue due to
Category: Tommy Gonzalez
We Should Fire Them All
I’m angry. From KFOX14.com: Five buildings throughout El Paso are being refurbished to assist the county combat COVID-19. . .
“Will You Support a Taxpayer Funded Soccer Stadium?”
That’s the question we should be asking candidates this election cycle. In the next four years, City Council will probably
Retrovision: The Effects of Corruption
This post originally appeared on 28 March 2019. Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in
Words and Their Meanings
El Paso City Attorney Karla Nieman had a birthday party for her daughter, in apparent contravention of the order against
Daddy and Daddy Are Fighting
Mayor Dee Margo and County Judge Ricardo Samaniego are battling it out over local government’s response to El Paso’s soaring
A Failure of Government
Pizza king J. Kirk Robison penned a Letter to the Editor in Sunday’s Sun Shopper El Paso Times. It is
The Government and the Governed
El Paso is culturally unique. There is no other place in the world like El Paso. The U.S. Census Bureau’s
The City’s Non-Political Political Ad
City Engineer Sam Rodriguez has an ad in this week’s El Paso Inc. Yup. You read that right. City Engineer
Pearl Clutching as a Political Strategy
The old. The sick. And some other group, harder to define. Maybe you’re part of that other group. Maybe you’re
Mayor Margo Tells Fibs
Here’s part of a questionnaire the El Paso Times gave to Mayor Dee Margo: 17. Do you support tax breaks/incentives
What Has the City Done for You Lately?
The El Paso Inc. reports that the City bought the County’s old 911 phone center building in downtown El Paso
The Power of the Mayor
The truth is, there isn’t a lot the Mayor of El Paso can do. He doesn’t get a vote on
We Should Start Thinking What Bankruptcy Will Look Like
El Pasoans aren’t getting any younger. True fact: We’re all either dead or getting older. (Today in the A Section
You’re the Sucker
Are you getting value from your city tax dollars? I mean, really. Is the city doing anything for you besides
The Destruction of Brand El Paso
What does “El Paso” mean to you? I threw quotes around it because I want to talk about the idea
The Death of Democracy in El Paso
Did you have a voice in the political process when City Council announced on a Thursday that they were going
Our Fearless Leader
A week after our city’s elected officials voted to give City Manager Tommy Gonzalez and City Attorney Karla Nieman merit
Getting What You Pay for?
Here’s an article in Forbes titled Why Texas Is In Trouble—78,064 Public Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks Cost Taxpayers $12 Billion:
AMF
Good news, everybody. According to recently released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, between July 2018 and July 2019, the