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The El Paso Times Reports on the FOAC and Gassandragate

2023-06-19 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Corruption, El Paso Times, Slider One comment

Maybe you didn’t see this story in the El Paso Times. The story was posted on ElPasoTimes.com on Friday, June

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The Best Charter Amendment That Didn’t Pass

2023-06-18 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Joyce Wilson, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

It was Proposition A: “Should section 3.1 of the City Charter, relating to creation, composition; powers and duties of Council

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Who Runs El Paso Water?

2023-06-13 Rich Wright Arrogance, El Paso Water, Public Service Board, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

by Rich Wright From the website of the City of El Paso: “The [Public Service Board] has complete management and

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The City’s U-Matter Program

2023-06-02 Rich Wright City Management, Corruption, Laura Cruz-Acosta, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

by Rich Wright You Are Not the You in U-Matter KVIA continues its block busting reporting with more information of

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The Poor Quality of Local Media

2023-06-02 Rich Wright Claudia Lizette Rodriguez, Corruption, El Paso Matters, El Paso Times, Media, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

by Rich Wright Did you see this report from KVIA? Former District 6 City of El Paso Representative Claudia Rodriguez

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Arrogance

2023-06-02 Rich Wright Arrogance, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Opportunity Costs, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

If you look at the Census Bureau estimates for El Paso’s population, the inflection point was 2012. It didn’t turn

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What do you get the man who has everything?

2023-05-22 Rich Wright El Paso Water, Slider, TIRZ 13, Welfare for the Rich 10 comments

by Rich Wright How about a man made river? According to this story from the daily rag, El Paso Water

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Our Taxing Politicians

2023-05-15 Rich Wright Cesar Blanco, Claudia Ordaz, El Paso Delegation, Joe Moody, Lina Ortega, Mary Gonzalez, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

You read here that email that Max Grossman sent out, decrying the proposed $10 increase for cars registered El Paso

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A Little Corrupt

2023-05-12 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, Corruption, Slider 3 comments

As the famous Jewish philosopher said, “If I can’t trust you with gas cards, how can I trust you with

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About Gassandragate

2023-05-05 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Claudia Lizette Rodriguez, Corruption, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

Yesterday I went to the City of El Paso’s Financial Oversight Audit Committee’s meeting at City Hall. It was great.

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Buried in Debt

2023-04-25 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

I lifted this image from the FY2023 City of El Paso Budget Book: You’ll notice that this year we payed

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My Take: About the City’s New Bond Rating

2023-04-18 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Strategic Plan, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

by Rich Wright I get it. If you can believe everything the City is telling us (always a dubious proposition),

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New Podcast Episode: What’s Up With Prop I?

2023-04-17 Rich Wright El Chuqueño Presents Leave a comment

What’s Prop I? From ElPasoMatters.com: El Paso voters are being asked to decide whether the city should lift a long-time

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Who Is Behind the Prop K Propaganda?

2023-04-12 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Elections, Slider, The Environment One comment

We the people are supposed to know who is financing election high jinks. There are laws for that. Unfortunately, the

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“Adios, Amigos”

2023-04-11 Rich Wright Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, population, Taxes 7 comments

El Paso’s population growth continues to stagnate, according to this report in ElPasoMatters.org: El Paso County’s population grew by fewer

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The Strategic Plan of the City of El Paso – A Critique

2023-03-28 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Strategic Plan 2 comments

It’s good to have a plan. Like the Cheshire Cat said to Alice, if you don’t know where you’re going,

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God Bless Dee Margo

2023-03-20 Rich Wright Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks 2 comments

Poor Dee Margo. He is completely out of touch. Here’s a paragraph from his recent response to an open letter

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Economic Development : We’ve Been Doing It Wrong.

2023-02-19 Rich Wright Borderplex Alliance, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

The Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Foundation hired the Perryman Group to study and propose some suggestions regarding Economic Development

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More Blood From a Turnip

2023-02-15 Rich Wright El Paso Water, Slider, Taxes One comment

You probably got a letter from El Paso Water last week. The letter announced a new fee that our municipally-owned

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Economic Development?

2023-02-14 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Everybody’s talking about all the Economic Development taking place downtown. Here, for instance, is that nice lady who has taken

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