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The Future of El Paso | Inspired by True Events

2026-08-23 Guest Column Debt, Economic Development, El Paso, Guest Column, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

by Andres Powers I. The Ledger Start with what is already true, because prophecy is cheap and the record is

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How Government Works

2026-07-22 Rich Wright Debt, Deck Park, Economic Development, National Policy, Politics, Project Jupiter, Slider, Taxes, The Environment, Water Leave a comment

Some people are talking a lot about the evils of socialism these days. None of the other isms are pure

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Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs

2025-12-02 Rich Wright Slider, City Council, City Management, Debt, Dionne Mack, Joyce Wilson, Renard Johnson, Robert Cortinas, Taxes, TIRZs 4 comments

Did you see last week that the City Manager wanted to charge every house and business in El Paso a

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TOTAL DEBT OF OUR FIVE TAXING ENTITIES EXCEEDS $5.1 BILLION!

2023-09-19 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Debt, EPISD, Slider, Taxes One comment

by Max Grossman Our property tax consists of the combined levies of five local taxing entities. If you live within the

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CITY DEBT APPROACHING $3 BILLION!

2023-07-18 elrichiboy Slider, Debt, Taxes Leave a comment

by Max Grossman According to page 79 of the FY 2023 Budget Book, our City owes $2,257,059,064, of which $851,565,991

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