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Dueling Commenters

2018-03-14 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

ChucoGeek had this to say in response to the article Times Change: This is why we are stuck following through

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Death and Taxes

2018-02-14 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Here’s a chart I lifted from a presentation the City’s Interim Director of Municipal Financial Operations gave to City Council

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Big Changes at City Hall

2018-01-24 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Remember when the rationale for all those pricey public amenities was “to shift the property tax burden from residential to

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Tomorrow’s City Council Agenda

2018-01-22 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

Tomorrow should be rip-roaring City Council meeting. City Council will vote tomorrow on an item limiting their own ability to

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Ballpark Numbers

2018-01-05 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

Are you troubled by insomnia? Then I’ve got some ballpark numbers that should put you right to sleep. Because there

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A Second Bite at the Apple

2017-12-28 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes One comment

The city budget is fat. Obviously they have extra money. Lookie here. From the El Paso Times: The city will

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Allocating Scarce Resources

2017-12-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider One comment

Income is finite. That’s a hard concept to get your mind around, because income, in aggregate, is so large, and

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Affordable Housing

2017-12-16 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Cost of Living, Economic Development 7 comments

Brutus over there at ElPasoSpeak alerted me to this list from Canadian data muncher Point2Homes that ranks housing affordability in

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Rent Seeking

2017-12-16 elrichiboy ballpark, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes One comment

From Investopedia.com: What is ‘Rent-Seeking’ Rent-seeking is the use of the resources of a company, an organization or an individual

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Retrovision: Commercial Property Tax Valuations Down

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[Our shrinking tax base isn’t a new thing. This article originally appeared on August 5, 2014. Since then, our city

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How Do We Evaluate Our Economic Development Policy?

2017-12-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Short answer: We don’t. I mean, except by the bank accounts of our community’s wealthiest citizens. They’re not going to

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A New Verse to the Same Old Song

2017-11-13 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Media, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

Remember last week I asked “Is the City Paying Companies to Not Leave Town?” Well, Vic Kolenc of the El

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El Paso Electric is a Bad Corporate Citizen

2017-11-06 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

The El Paso Inc. reports that El Paso Electric Company CEO Mary Kipp was recently feted at the El Paso

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El Paso Electric Fund Drive

2017-11-03 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Slider 2 comments

With the holidays coming up, it’s time to consider those of us who are less fortunate. Like those poor dears

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The Money Quote

2017-10-31 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes Leave a comment

After I posted that article yesterday, about El Paso’s low salaries, I was reminded that I left out the best

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Surprise! We’re Poor!

2017-10-30 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Inc., jobs in El Paso pay only 72 percent of the national

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Welcome to Rancho El Paso

2017-10-05 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

El Paso is poor. According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, there were 267,376 households in El Paso County in 2016,

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Another Inconvenient Truth

2017-09-20 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes One comment

According the estimates from the United States Census Bureau, El Paso’s Median Household Income declined from $45,069 in 2015, to

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We’re Number 10!

2017-09-13 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes One comment

But we’re moving up! From Governing.com: When citizens think about where local taxpayer money goes, they often assume it pays

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It’s Cheap to Live in El Paso

2017-09-10 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

Here’s the kind of news story you usually see blasted from the El Paso Times. This version came to us

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