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How Owners of Professional Sports Teams Dodge Taxes

2024-05-03 Rich Wright ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Here’s an interesting story from ProPublica.com about how the owners of professional sports teams escape income taxes: The IRS has

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Our Petulant and Entitled Ruling Class

2024-04-28 Rich Wright City Council, MountainStar Sports Group, Oscar Leeser, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Here’s a story maybe you didn’t see. From ElPasoTimes.com: [El Paso Mayor Oscar] Leeser related a recent encounter with someone

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The Arena Saga

2024-04-10 Rich Wright Arrogance, Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Economic Development, Renard Johnson, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

I am tired of writing about the ongoing swindle that local governments keep trying to pull on us. I’m talking

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Why We Can’t Build an Arena in the Rail Yard by City Hall

2024-03-12 Rich Wright Joyce Wilson, Liar Liar, Slider, The Arena One comment

Seems like the perfect location, right? Big. Mostly vacant. Downtown. But Union Pacific won’t deal with the City. Why not?

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About the New Venue

2024-03-08 Rich Wright ballpark, City Council, Joyce Wilson, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Y’all ain’t playin’ the long game. Some people (you know who you are) want to derail the proposed hybrid, inside-outside

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A Homegrown City Manager?

2024-02-27 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Joyce Wilson, Oscar Leeser, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Two weeks ago City Council rejected Mayor Oscar Leeser’s proposal to restrict the search for a City Manager to locals.

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More From Joyce

2024-02-26 Rich Wright Arrogance, City Council, Joyce Wilson, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Here’s another email that disgraced former City Manager Joyce Wilson sent to Mayor Oscar Leeser: Since the 2012 Quality of

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Revisiting the 2012 Quality of Life Bond Promotion

2024-02-24 Rich Wright Borderplex Alliance, Downtown, Economic Development, Joyce Wilson, Local Heroes, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena One comment

Debbie Nathan was a local hero. She’s still a hero, but she’s not local anymore. Ms. Nathan is an accomplished

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What Joyce Said

2024-02-21 Rich Wright Arrogance, El Paso Matters, Gensler, Joyce Wilson, Media, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

Here’s the email that former City Manager Joyce Wilson sent to Mayor Oscar Leeser last week: Even though I’ve been

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“I think we deserve a 14,000 seat arena.”

2024-02-20 Rich Wright Art Fierro, Carmen Arrieta-Candelaria, Joyce Wilson, Slider, The Arena One comment

That’s what District 6 Representative Art Fierro was quoted as saying in this ElPasoTimes.com article. Why? Have we been misbehaving?

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Joyce Speaks! (Updated*)

2024-02-15 Rich Wright Arrogance, Joyce Wilson, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Did you see this opinion piece by former City Manager Joyce Wilson at ElPasoMatters.com? This is why political leadership is

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CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO ACCEPT LEGAL AGREEMENT TO END ARENA LITIGATION!

2023-08-14 Max Grossman City Council, The Arena 5 comments

by Max Grossman I am pleased to report that after today’s three-hour executive session, the City Council voted 6-0 to

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Retrovision: The Road to Economic Development

2023-07-02 Rich Wright Art, ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 06 June 2013. This post has been slightly edited. As an El Pasoan, I appreciate

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Robert Reich — “The Stadium Scam”

2023-02-13 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Opportunity Costs, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Robert Reich takes on the billionaires in this piece on his website. Ever notice how there never seems to be

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Economic Development for the Few

2023-01-07 Rich Wright Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Some of those arena advocates act like it’s our patriotic duty to support downtown development. “Economic development,” they say. “Fortune

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About the Arena

2023-01-03 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Economics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena One comment

Advocates say we need the arena as an engine of economic development. That’s not how economic development works. If you

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The Latest Outrage

2022-11-28 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Arena, Veronica Escobar 5 comments

From CBS4Local: As CBS4’s John Purvis reported in a Tough Questions Special Report last week, the federal government’s planned expansion

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The Arena

2022-10-17 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Rich Wright for District 8 Platform, The Arena Leave a comment

Building a $180 miilion arena in Duranguito was a bad idea 10 years ago, and it’s a bad idea now,

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El Paso is Unique

2022-10-17 Rich Wright Economic Development, Political Advertisement, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Water Parks 3 comments

El Paso is as culturally unique as New Orleans, or San Francisco, or Key West. There is no place in

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What You’ll Get From the Arena

2022-09-19 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Gensler, Heritage Tourism, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 4 comments

Best case scenario: Collateral development. Maybe other businesses will spring up around the arena. Like what? When they were promoting

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