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Author: Rich Wright

Does Your City Council Representative Deserve A Raise?

2018-09-06 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

To tell the truth, we don’t know. We can’t know. All the decisions are made out of the public eye.

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Cousin Lemp’s Whack-A-Mole Bad Habit

2018-08-29 Rich Wright Meta Blog, Slider, TIRZs 5 comments

There’s this fallacy circulating that TIRZ 12 means that only the people who buy land up there on the mountain

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The Freeway Is Open

2018-08-19 Rich Wright Breaking News 2 comments

Or at least it will be momentarily. The work on the utility bridge is done. Now all we lack is

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Reasonable People

2018-08-14 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Slider One comment

I think reasonable people will agree that El Paso’s property taxes are too high. El Paso’s property tax rates are

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A Public Obscenity

2018-08-03 Rich Wright ballpark, City Council, Political Advertisement, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 5 comments

I think it’s obscene that the City of El Paso asks the working poor to pay for luxury amenities for

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Deus Ex Machina Redux

2018-08-02 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider One comment

When Representative Dr. Sam Morgan talked about Operational Security and him knowing things that we didn’t know, I hope he

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The Central Appraisal District Responds

2018-08-01 Rich Wright Cost of Living, Taxes 4 comments

Yesterday a loyal reader sent one of my articles to Dinah Kilgore, the Executive Director and Chief Appraiser of the

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Mo’ Taxes, Mo’ Problems

2018-07-31 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Taxes 2 comments

If you’re happy with the way things are going at City Hall, you’re not paying attention. The El Paso Times

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What Is El Paso’s Comparative Advantage?

2018-07-25 Rich Wright Economic Development, Slider 3 comments

Development economists like to talk about an economy’s comparative advantage. Investopedia says this about Comparative Advantage: Comparative advantage is an

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City Council Raises Taxes! Again! And Again!

2018-07-24 Rich Wright Quality of Life Projects, Taxes One comment

At a Special Meeting on Monday, City Council approved an additional $20 million in Certificates of Obligation for the Children’s

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More Lies From Our Friends In City Government

2018-07-12 Rich Wright Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs 2 comments

Here’s the City’s Economic Development Director spinning the TIRZs: City Council voted to approve the creation of Tax Increment Reinvestment

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Budget Theater

2018-07-12 Rich Wright City Council, Taxes Leave a comment

The City is in the midst of budget talks. Here’s the almost latest from the El Paso Times: Homeowners could

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A Better Site for the Mexican American Cultural Center

2018-07-09 Rich Wright City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 9 comments

I think the City spends our money poorly. The City spends our money courting out-of-town businesses that compete with our

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El Chuqueño Lately

  • Los Lobos with Cafe Tacvba – “La Venganza de los Pelados”
  • Shut Your Pie Hole
  • Retrovision – El Paso, a Metaphor
  • “A Street With No Name”
  • Kris Kristofferson and Friends – Why Me Lord

Advocating for El Pasoans since 2012

The major media is great. They give you the facts. But El Chuqueño takes you past the facts, to tell you the why. Help us in our mission of advocating for El Paso, and El Pasoans.

The Word on the Street

  • Abel Rodriguez on Shut Your Pie Hole
  • JerryK on Shut Your Pie Hole
  • Thomas Busch on Shut Your Pie Hole
  • Denise on City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico
  • John G. Dungan on David Stout for County Commissioner Precinct 2
  • judy Ackerman on “City Manager’s Contract Extension is Not Sound Governance”
  • Debbie Nathan on David Stout for County Commissioner Precinct 2
  • Joel on Expo-Subasta for Edificio de los Sueños
  • Devin Nunes Escaped Cow on “Justicia Fronteriza Denounces Extension of Tommy Gonzalez’ Contract”
  • Devin Nunes Escaped Cow on Another Salvo in the War on Taxpayers
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The People Speak!

  • Abel Rodriguez on Shut Your Pie Hole
  • JerryK on Shut Your Pie Hole
  • Thomas Busch on Shut Your Pie Hole
  • Denise on City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico
  • John G. Dungan on David Stout for County Commissioner Precinct 2
  • judy Ackerman on “City Manager’s Contract Extension is Not Sound Governance”
  • Debbie Nathan on David Stout for County Commissioner Precinct 2
  • Joel on Expo-Subasta for Edificio de los Sueños
  • Devin Nunes Escaped Cow on “Justicia Fronteriza Denounces Extension of Tommy Gonzalez’ Contract”
  • Devin Nunes Escaped Cow on Another Salvo in the War on Taxpayers

El Chuqueño Lately

  • Los Lobos with Cafe Tacvba – “La Venganza de los Pelados”
  • Shut Your Pie Hole
  • Retrovision – El Paso, a Metaphor
  • “A Street With No Name”
  • Kris Kristofferson and Friends – Why Me Lord

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