You know, the City used to justify municipal extravagance with the rationalization that we need to swing our tax base
Category: City Management
Unintended Consequences
Sometime in the murky past, the City moved the date of local elections to coincide with state and national elections.
Clueless in El Chuco
An alert reader forwarded me District 8 City Representative Cissy Lizarraga’s latest newsletter. Rep. Lizarraga is proud to tell her
Brother, Can You Spare a Billion Bucks?
This November, the City of El Paso will ask its taxpayers to approve a $940 million bond. From CBS4Local.com: “At
Chime the F Off
From today’s print version of the El Paso Times: City staff said 2,200 El Pasoans participated in a community-wide survey
Quality of Life
What makes for a good quality of life? I may be shallow, but my Quality of Life is improved when
WSJ On Tax Incentives: A Race to the Bottom
Here’s a story from last week’s Wall Street Journal about using tax incentives to lure businesses: Concerns have mounted in
It’s All Tommy G
Look, when they hired him, they told him that we were sitting on a half a billion dollars of Quality
“And the Winner Is . . .”
Yay! We’re Number 1 on another list! The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy has come out with their list of
The City’s Streetcar Fetish
The City is facing budget shortfalls while the trolley is bleeding money because of a lack of riders. The obvious
Free Streetcar Rides!
Good news! If you are one of those people who usually takes the bus from UTEP to downtown, or vice
Just Like Democracy. Except not.
Did you hear about the latest attempt by your favorite City Council to stifle any voice of dissent? From the
Welcome to the Future
I’m in downtown Ensenada. Downtown Ensenada on a Monday night is like Mexican Vegas after the apocalypse. The streets are
Retrovision: Forget the Arena
This article originally appeared on 8 February 2017. Here’s a feel-good story from the El Paso Times about how few
Local Government Is Absurd
Here’s a Letter to the Editor of the El Paso Times from Lower Valley resident Christopher Falk. Once again the
What’s It For?
Why are we still trying to build an arena? MountainStar’s not hot on it anymore. They’re worried about their soccer
The Trouble With Term Limits
Currently, El Paso’s elected officials are limited to two terms in office. That means that once they figure out what’s
More Debt Per Capita
According to the slideshow that accompanies this story from the Austin American Statesman, El Pasoans owe more General Obligation debt
More Gobbledygook From Our Friends at City Hall
You may have seen that the City refused to compromise on the downtown arena swindle. (Why do all the City’s
Read ’em and Weep
The numbers we’ve all been waiting for have arrived, and they’re not pretty. Between 2017 and 2018, the population of