Former City Council Representative and Mayoral Candidate and current member of the board of the Downtown Management District Steve Ortega,
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The dog barks, and the caravan moves on.
Former City Council Representative and Mayoral Candidate and current member of the board of the Downtown Management District Steve Ortega,
Here’s a chart I lifted from a presentation the City’s Interim Director of Municipal Financial Operations gave to City Council
Public Private Partnerships are all the rage. The ballpark got one. The City is looking to develop luxury apartments on
Seth Godin today talks about cities building stadiums in a column titled The Super Bowl is for Losers. So why
Naw, we’ll just stick it to the taxpayers. Woody Hunt is a smart man. He’s studied public corruption. Here’s what
Look at this chart from Interim Director of Municipal Financial Operations Robert Cortinas’ presentation last Tuesday: It shows the growth
This is a lightly edited version of an article that originally appeared on 6 June 2013. Since then, very little
Remember when the rationale for all those pricey public amenities was “to shift the property tax burden from residential to
From a 2009 El Paso Inc. interview with Woody Hunt: Q. How does corruption impact economic development? If the procurement
An alert reader sent me this spreadsheet which shows the actual numbers for the ballpark. Four years in and we’re
Are you troubled by insomnia? Then I’ve got some ballpark numbers that should put you right to sleep. Because there
Besides call centers, the City of El Paso’s economic development policy seems to be solely focused on tourism as a
From Investopedia.com: What is ‘Rent-Seeking’ Rent-seeking is the use of the resources of a company, an organization or an individual
El Paso Community Foundation President Eric Pearson says the Children’s Museum is going to be an economic driver. From KVIA:
Perhaps they meant well. Maybe they were trying to seize the moment. Maybe they thought that the tide had turned,
See, there were all these crabs in a bucket. And the rich crabs said, “Hey, let’s make a better bucket.
Nothing else makes sense. The City is pursuing a plan formulated by the Paso del Norte Group, a bunch of
Here’s an abstract of a scholarly article from the Journal of Urban Affairs. The title of the paper is “Downtown
El Paso is a great town. The people are friendly and unpretentious. The weather’s good, mostly. The sunsets are often
That’s all I want. Government responsive to the needs of its citizens. All its citizens. Not just the campaign donors.