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The Winds of Change?

2020-07-16 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Elections, Politics, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

The primary elections are over. Incumbent Vince Perez lost his Precinct 3 County Commissioners seat. And James Montoya, veteran District

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Segundo Barrio

2020-06-18 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Downtown, Economic Development, History, Slider, TIRZs 2 comments

Have you seen this map of the Segundo Barrio Historic District the El Paso Commissioners Court approved last Monday? It’s

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Retrovision: Six Years On

2020-05-29 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

This article originally appeared on 08 March 2019. On March 8, 2013, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot the

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Late to the Party

2019-10-09 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, It's All Good, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

I hate to say I told you so, but . . . From the El Paso Times: Data show El Paso’s

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Six Feet High and Rising

2019-08-30 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Well, lookie here. The dead tree edition of the El Paso Times reports that our County’s Hospital District is raising

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Jobs Report

2019-08-22 elrichiboy Breaking News, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

Bob Moore reports, via his El Paso Matters twitter feed, that the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that things in

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The Cost of Living Well

2019-08-20 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

Apparently our elected officials of the County Commissioners Court are giving themselves about a twenty percent raise next year. This

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The Downtown Historic District

2019-06-16 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Today, or tomorrow, or yesterday, depending on when you’re reading this, the El Paso County Commissioners Court will consider, or

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You’re Out!

2019-04-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Media, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

Here’s an article from Reason that describes the plights of three cities who paid for ballparks. “Any normal business person

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Six Years On

2019-03-08 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement, Slider 9 comments

On March 8, 2013, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot the handcuffed prisoner Danny Saenz in the sallyport of

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On The Other Hand

2019-03-08 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement 2 comments

Here’s a story about some police violence perpetrated by the Boston Transit Authority Police: A former transit police officer and

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Bloomberg on Publicly Funded Stadiums

2018-07-19 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

An alert reader pointed out that this week Bloomberg.com, that bastion of liberal thinking, ran an article called Four Reasons

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Not John Cook

2018-05-14 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Elections 8 comments

El Chuqueño does not endorse political candidates (though there’s this one candidate for District 8 that the editorial board is

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Second Highest Tax Rate In The Nation

2018-04-30 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Cost of Living, Taxes 5 comments

According to Lincoln Institute’s 50 State Property Tax Comparison, El Paso has the second highest homestead property tax rate among

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Retrovision: The Master Plan

2018-03-05 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

I was going to write about the soccer stadium, but I realized that I already did. This post originally appeared

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A New Letter From Max Grossman

2018-01-25 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, The Arena Leave a comment

Max is killing it. Here’s an email I got from him last night. Dear Friends, The League of Women Voters

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Why They Need an Arena

2017-10-23 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Here’s some interesting history to go with the prior post about eight million dollars a year that the El Paso

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The Master Plan

2017-10-22 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

How MountainStar Wants to Get You to Pay for Their Futbol Stadium Now it’s a futbol stadium. From the El

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Retrovision: Forget the Arena

2017-10-02 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

This article originally appeared on 8 February 2017. Here’s a feel-good story from the El Paso Times about how few

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Greetings From Gringolandia!

2017-09-25 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 6 comments

Wish you were here! County Commissioner Vince Perez is all in our face about Senator Jose Rodriguez’ quote in Texas

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