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“The True Cost of Corruption”

2018-11-04 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 2 comments

Oh, the irony. Here’s a great interview from the September 8, 2009, issue of the El Paso Inc. with an

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Sorry About That From the Dysfunction Faction

2018-10-07 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Hey, District 6 Representative Claudia Ordaz Perez says that some faction is trying to “cause dysfunction in City Government.” Well,

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Maybe They’re Sick

2018-09-14 Rich Wright ballpark, City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena, TIRZs, Trolley, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

When you make decisions behind closed doors, without public input, you better be right. So far, our city hasn’t been

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The “Arena” Looms Large

2018-09-12 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Downtown, Media, The Arena 4 comments

This week the El Paso Inc. tries to demonstrate that El Pasoans knew all along that the Multi Purpose Performing

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Open Government

2018-09-03 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Political Advertisement, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

According to Wikipedia, Open government is the governing doctrine which holds that citizens have the right to access the documents

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Now, or Later?

2018-08-28 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Let’s take a stroll down memory lane. El Paso used to be a growing city. From 2010 to 2012, El

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Retrovision: About Those Quality of Life Projects

2018-08-26 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Taxes, The Arena, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 19 April 2018, but let me say it again. Advocates of the Quality of Life

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Retrovision: Who’s Driving This Truck?

2018-08-10 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 15 December 2016. It looks increasingly like City Staff are giving direction to City Council

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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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The Mayor’s Missing Emails

2018-07-30 elrichiboy City Council, Ethics, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

From the El Paso Inc.: El Paso Mayor Dee Margo appears to have sidestepped the city’s public information rules and

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A Letter

2018-07-20 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena One comment

Someone slipped this under the door of El Chuqueño World Headquarters last night. It appears to be a letter from

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Bloomberg on Publicly Funded Stadiums

2018-07-19 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

An alert reader pointed out that this week Bloomberg.com, that bastion of liberal thinking, ran an article called Four Reasons

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“The Sunk Cost Fallacy”

2018-07-18 elrichiboy Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Here’s a piece from YouAreNotSoSmart.com on the Sunk Cost Fallacy, the idea that you’ve already invested so much in a

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What If Their Plan Doesn’t Work?

2018-06-11 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 6 comments

What if they’re doing it wrong? What if their plans for economic development are based on false assumptions? What if

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Retrovision: A Failure in Branding

2018-06-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena One comment

This article originally appeared on 24 August 2017. Here’s a letter to the editor from the El Paso Times: Here

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The Bubble

2018-05-29 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 7 comments

We all live in our own bubbles. We hang out with people who think like us and dress like us

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The Big Lie

2018-04-23 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

The advocates for the City’s Quality of Life projects pretend that we need ballparks and arenas to spur economic development.

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We’re Number 2! (For Now)

2018-03-23 elrichiboy ballpark, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

Fort Worth has slightly higher property tax rates than El Paso. For now. According to SmartAsset.com (killer website name), the

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Bread and Taxes

2018-03-21 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Right now I’m making bread. I’m at the part of the bread-making process where a lump of dough sits in

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Dueling Commenters

2018-03-14 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

ChucoGeek had this to say in response to the article Times Change: This is why we are stuck following through

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