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Is This What Corruption Looks Like?

2022-05-03 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 12 comments

From ElPasoTimes.com: The [El Paso City Council] voted to hire a San Francisco-based architecture firm to provide an updated cost

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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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Retrovision: The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2021-06-15 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, ballpark, City Council, City Management, Opportunity Costs, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks, Welfare for the Rich One comment

This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for

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Retrovision: The Lies they Tell us

2021-02-02 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

This post originally appeared on 27 April 2020. Tomorrow the El Paso City Council will vote on a measure to

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