The power dynamic has subtly shifted at City Hall. The developers used to call the shots. But, since El Paso’s
Category: Welfare for the Rich
Retrovision: The City’s Plan Sucks.
This article originally appeared on 03 May 2018. The City of El Paso is implementing a plan that some rich
Revelation
They said it was about Economic Development. They said that once we built those Quality of Life projects, companies would
Things Are Great. Just not for Taxpayers.
This week there’s a column by the editor of the El Paso Inc. about how great DWNTWN is doing. Property
WSJ On Tax Incentives: A Race to the Bottom
Here’s a story from last week’s Wall Street Journal about using tax incentives to lure businesses: Concerns have mounted in
Retrovision: Forget the Arena
This article originally appeared on 8 February 2017. Here’s a feel-good story from the El Paso Times about how few
Riding the Decline
Our city leaders — all of them, the elected and the economic and the City staff — are managing El
The Trouble With TIRZs
You might no be so pissed off when you wrote that property tax check if your money was going for
Common Sense
Here’s an ad from Britain’s Labour Party which has some relevance for our local tax policies. But you know what
Retrovision: The Real Cost of the Quality of Life Projects
This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for
The Effects of Corruption
Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in this interview with the El Paso Inc. Scholarly
Corruption: The Short Version
The City of El Paso is trading 2,313 acres adjacent to the golf course in Northeast El Paso to Paul
Who Dropped the Soap?
Here’s another informative piece from Vic Kolenc of the El Paso Times, headlined El Paso Water board breaks land-sale drought
Disinformation
Maybe you saw this op-ed in the El Paso Times this weekend: We are proud El Paso residents, but it
Pity the Rich
Those poor little rich folk. They can’t go to dive bars, or downtown Juarez. They’ll never know the joys of
The Great Wolf Swindle
The City must have stayed up late figuring out how to swindle the taxpayers with that new Great Wolf Lodge.
Future El Paso
Isn’t anyone else concerned that the City of El Paso is operating on a plan that was largely conceived in
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
Retrovision: About Those Quality of Life Projects
This article originally appeared on 19 April 2018, but let me say it again. Advocates of the Quality of Life
What Are We To Do?
You may ask yourself, “What are we going to do about the direction the City of El Paso is headed?”