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TEDx El Paso: A City Reimagined

2022-03-04 Rich Wright ballpark, Chamber of Commerce, City Management, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez, TxDOT 6 comments

Saturday, March 5 (tomorrow, or today, or last week, depending on when you are reading this) TEDx El Paso is

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Belated Happy Birthday, El Paso

2022-03-01 Rich Wright Downtown, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

On February 28, 1859, Anson Mills submitted this street plat for the town that was to become El Paso. And

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The Glass Wall

2022-02-27 Rich Wright Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The City is Taking the Buses

2022-02-25 Rich Wright City Management, Public Transportation, Slider, The Trench, Widening I-10 6 comments

Gas is as expensive as it has been in a while, and it’s going to get dearer. Supply chain disruptions

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“Imagine an El Paso Where Community Comes First”

2022-02-24 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Slider 4 comments

The Community First Coalition has come up with a pretty slick presentation of their goals and ideals. El Chuqueño is

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Be Careful What You Wish For

2022-02-24 Rich Wright Economic Development, Urban Planning One comment

Here’s a story from the New York Times headlined “The Next Affordable City Is Already Too Expensive.” The names are

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Wealth in Different Terms

2022-02-23 Rich Wright Economic Development, Urban Planning 5 comments

From TheAtlantic.com: Money and markets have been around for thousands of years. Yet as central as currency has been to

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El Paso is at War

2022-02-21 Rich Wright Cesar Blanco, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

It’s a class war. The City of El Paso, and the Chamber of Commerce, and MountainStar Sports Group, have declared

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What’s Best for El Paso

2022-02-19 Rich Wright Cesar Blanco, Deck Park, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, The Trench, TxDOT, Veronica Escobar, Widening I-10 6 comments

Building the Borderland Expressway makes more sense for El Paso than widening the freeway downtown. If we removed the through

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The Future of I-10

2022-02-09 Rich Wright Slider, The Trench, TxDOT 3 comments

TxDOT has released a couple of proposals for the freeway downtown. They’re not pretty. Here’s a link (with an opportunity

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Blame It On the Strategic Plan

2022-02-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

If you want to know what’s wrong with governance in El Paso, you have to look no further than the

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The Regressive Nature of Property Taxes

2022-02-06 Rich Wright Economics, Inequality, Taxes 4 comments

Let’s look at wealth. For a working man, or woman, most of their wealth is represented by their homes. Homes

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My Letter to the Malcolm Baldridge Foundation

2022-02-04 Rich Wright City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Hi y’all, I see where El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez received the E David Spong Lifetime Achievement Award from

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Unqualified Doctors at El Paso Children’s Hospital?

2022-02-01 Rich Wright El Paso Children's Hospital, Slider 2 comments

ElPasoPolitics.com reports on some of the shenanigans going on at the El Paso Children’s Hospital: Thomas Mayes is a pediatric

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Fooling Pete Buttigieg

2021-11-29 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning, Veronica Escobar 8 comments

Vic Kolenc covers the downtown freeway deck park in this story from the El Paso Times: A project to build

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I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

2021-11-23 Rich Wright ballpark, Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT 11 comments

I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing the traffic coming

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Scorched Earth

2021-10-27 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, Cassandra Hernandez, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, Gensler, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

Way back in 2014, when I was trying to figure out the twisted logic of the City’s plans, I wrote

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How Much Would the “Arena” Cost today?

2021-10-25 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 7 comments

Tomorrow, City Council will vote on whether or not to tell City Manager Tommy Gonzalez to come up with a

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Manufacturing Consent

2021-09-16 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Downtown Management District, Economic Development, El Paso Times, Manufacturing Consent, Media, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes 6 comments

Reality is subjective. That notion isn’t popular in the hard sciences, but anyone with a television or internet connection can

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They’re Just Wrong

2021-09-01 Rich Wright City Council, Economic Development, Peter Svarzbein, Slider 8 comments

During the debate about the Mayor’s veto yesterday District 1 Representative and reported candidate for Commissioners Court Peter Svarzbein said

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