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I Can Admit It When I Make a Mistake

2018-06-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Ethics, Slider 2 comments

The City can’t. Which is probably why they can’t stop making mistakes. If you’re going to pretend your mistake never

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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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Another More Egregious Open Meeting Violation

2018-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

From the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas’ Open Meetings Handbook 2018: 2. Section 551.072. Deliberations

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More Businesses But Not More Business

2018-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, TIRZs Leave a comment

Here’s a graphic I lifted from the City’s website, detailing what kind of businesses the City is expecting to move

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The Link Policy is Back

2018-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Media One comment

That pesky “Link Policy” is back on the City’s website. Aesthetically, it clutters up the website’s menu. Practically, I’m not

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“OpSec”

2018-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

That’s the phrase District 4 Representative Sam Morgan used to justify his vote for TIRZ 12 at yesterday’s City Council

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Rich Wright for District 8 Campaign Kickoff Party Thursday, May 24

2018-05-24 elrichiboy City Council, Political Advertisement One comment

We’re celebrating the launch of our campaign for District 8 at 5:30 today at Happy’s Barley and Vine, at the

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That Children’s Museum Will Be Free, Right?

2018-05-24 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes One comment

Did you hear that the City of El Paso, along with some private investors, are going to build a Children’s

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“I am not a crook.”

2018-05-22 elrichiboy City Council One comment

From KTSM, in a piece titled City explains why Firth severance pay is ‘legally sound’: City Human Resources Director Linda

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Tax Breaks for the Rich

2018-05-16 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Did you see this story on KVIA? El Paso City Council is considering establishing a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ)

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Susie Byrd on the Ballpark

2018-05-14 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Taxes 8 comments

There was this story from KVIA about the ballpark: It is year five for the El Paso Chihuahuas, and we

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The Wolf Lodge Water Park TIRZ

2018-05-14 elrichiboy City Council, Taxes One comment

This came out of the supporting materials for Tuesday’s City Council Meeting agenda, Item 16.2: On December 19, 2017, the

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The Shame of the City

2018-05-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Taxes 3 comments

Today is trash day in my neighborhood Barrio Heights. Last night, as I was falling to sleep, I realized that

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I’ve Got A (Conspiracy) Theory

2018-05-10 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Public Private Partnerships, Taxes One comment

Some conspiracy theories are a load of hooey, but people making deals out of the public eye are standard operating

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Mo’ Taxes

2018-05-09 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

The City offered up their newly minted Chief Financial Officer to defend our sky high tax rates. Here’s David Crowder

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Making Sense About Cohen Stadium

2018-05-08 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

Look, I don’t want to ruin the political discourse at City Hall by introducing things like common sense and logic,

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About That NE Water Park

2018-05-07 elrichiboy City Council, Slider One comment

What’s it for? To make El Paso more attractive to the Army big brass? Or for El Pasoans. I don’t

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Retrovision: El Paso: A Metaphor

2018-05-04 elrichiboy City Council, Slider One comment

This post originally appeared on 30 July 2015. Things haven’t improved since then. El Paso is like that really nice

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The City’s Plan Sucks

2018-05-03 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

The City of El Paso is implementing a plan that some rich guys came up with behind closed doors in

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My Gentler Approach

2018-05-02 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development One comment

I’m hard on our city’s leaders. They say they want Economic Development, but they don’t really have any qualifications for

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