By now you may have heard that Pacific Financial appears to have folded up its tent and left town. Or
Category: City Council
A Letter
Someone slipped this under the door of El Chuqueño World Headquarters last night. It appears to be a letter from
Bloomberg on Publicly Funded Stadiums
An alert reader pointed out that this week Bloomberg.com, that bastion of liberal thinking, ran an article called Four Reasons
Mountain Biking Lost Dog
Here’s the City’s latest advertisement promoting some of the wonderful outdoor opportunities we can enjoy here in El Paso. Watch
About the Lost Dog TIRZ
Here’s some informed speculation about TIRZ 12, the Lost Dog TIRZ. I think it has something to do with that
Budget Theater
The City is in the midst of budget talks. Here’s the almost latest from the El Paso Times: Homeowners could
A Better Site for the Mexican American Cultural Center
I think the City spends our money poorly. The City spends our money courting out-of-town businesses that compete with our
The El Paso Street Debacle
El Paso Street was El Paso’s first street. Mandy the Mule used to haul transnationals down the middle of the
The Stanton Street Bike Lane
To accommodate the trolley running down the middle of Stanton Street, the City choked it down to one lane each
Still No Ethics (Revision)
Remember this story from the El Paso Inc. that appeared way back on 19 March 2018? Members of the city’s
“The Future of Cities”
On Wednesday the Wall Street Journal came out with a section called “The Future of Cities.” The lead story was
Retrovision: A Local Expert’s Perspective on Economic Development
This post originally appeared on 01 October 2015. Some things have changed since then. Our Commercial property tax rate is
It’s Class War
Here’s District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez Brown, talking about City Council’s economic development initiatives to the Texas Standard: “You develop
Murmurs: El Paso Public Library = Chicano Memorial Museum
The word in the smoke-filled back rooms of the the back alleys of the side streets of the halls of
“Some Cities Are Screwed”
An alert reader sent me this relevant article from Salon: [A]s the adage goes, all economics is local. One part
Sign the Lost Dog Petition
The City thinks the way to make El Paso attractive is to tart her up like a hooker in a
I Can Admit It When I Make a Mistake
The City can’t. Which is probably why they can’t stop making mistakes. If you’re going to pretend your mistake never
Retrovision: A Failure in Branding
This article originally appeared on 24 August 2017. Here’s a letter to the editor from the El Paso Times: Here
Another More Egregious Open Meeting Violation
From the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas’ Open Meetings Handbook 2018: 2. Section 551.072. Deliberations
More Businesses But Not More Business
Here’s a graphic I lifted from the City’s website, detailing what kind of businesses the City is expecting to move