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San Antonio’s Development Problems

2022-06-20 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 4 comments

From the Washington Post: Visitors entering Rebecca Flores’s San Antonio home pass a sepia-toned photo of her large Tejano family

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Place Your Bets

2022-06-07 elrichiboy Oscar Leeser, Peter Svarzbein, Slider 3 comments

District 1 Representative Peter Svarzbein filed a Code of Conduct complaint against Mayor Oscar Leeser today, according to this story

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Evaluating Our Priorities

2022-06-02 Rich Wright Certificates of Obligation, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, City Management, Claudia Lizette Rodriguez, Isabel Salcido, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

They are coming out of the woodwork (and maybe from under rocks) to weigh in on Tommy Gonzalez’ future. From

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Tommy Gonzalez Doesn’t Like El Paso

2022-05-30 Rich Wright City Council, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Recently, Tommy Gonzalez applied for a job in Frisco, Texas, despite making more than $400,000 a year here. If he

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People Don’t Like Tommy Gonzalez

2022-05-27 Rich Wright City Council, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

At least the taxpayers don’t like him. He’s been here since 2014, and I haven’t met anyone who tells me

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Retrovision – El Paso, a Metaphor

2022-05-23 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Media, Slider One comment

This post originally appeared on 30 July 2015. El Paso is like that really nice girl with the shitty boyfriend

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Another Salvo in the War on Taxpayers

2022-05-18 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, City Management, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, MountainStar Sports Group, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

The City of El Paso, the El Paso Chamber of Commerce, and MountainStar Sports group are waging a class war

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“Justicia Fronteriza Denounces Extension of Tommy Gonzalez’ Contract”

2022-05-18 Rich Wright City Council, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

The following is a Press Release from Justicia Fronteriza: Justicia Fronteriza PAC is extremely disappointed, but not surprised that a

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“City Manager’s Contract Extension is Not Sound Governance”

2022-05-17 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

The following is a press release from the Community First Coalition of El Paso: The El Paso City Council’s action

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Stockholm Syndrome?

2022-05-16 Rich Wright Breaking News, Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Did you see the latest edition of ABC-7 Xtra? I have to wonder what our City Council members are thinking.

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Tommy Gonzalez Has Been Cheating On Us

2022-05-11 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 11 comments

You’ve heard the news. El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez is among three other finalists being considered for city manager

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Warren Buffett — The Rich Are Winning the Class War

2022-05-10 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

He said it in a New York Times article back in 2006. “There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said,

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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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Oh, the Hypocrisy

2022-04-23 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Here’s a story from KVIA.com: Several city representatives say they will direct City Manager Tommy Gonzalez to decrease the City

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El Paso Electric’s Profits Rise 87.4%

2022-04-21 Rich Wright City Council, Cost of Living, El Paso Electric Company, Slider One comment

From ElPasoTimes.com: El Paso Electric’s profit increased 87.4% in 2021 to $146.2 million, a new financial report shows. . .

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City Council to Vote on Districting

2022-04-14 Rich Wright City Council, Redistricting, Slider One comment

City Council will meet in a Special Session this afternoon with only one item on the agenda: Discussion and action

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El Paso’s Class War is Not Happenstance

2022-04-08 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Lina Ortega, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

In their recent opinion piece in the El Paso Times titled El Paso’s Resurgence is not Happenstance, State Representative Lina

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Ahead of the Curve

2022-04-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 2 comments

Here’s an impractical solution to the decline in baseball’s popularity, headlined Baseball is Dying. Government Should Take It Over. From

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Retrovision – Nothing’s For Sure but Debt and Taxes

2022-04-06 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Retrovision, Taxes Leave a comment

(This post originally ran on 10 March 2017.) The ever-vigilant Brutus over at El Paso Speak alerted me (and all

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And the Hits Keep Coming

2022-03-22 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

More good news, from ElPasoMatters.com : The Public Service Board voted unanimously Wednesday to ask El Paso City Council to

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