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Retrovision – Blame It On the Strategic Plan

2022-06-22 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 07 February 2022. If you want to know what’s wrong with governance in El Paso,

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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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Retrovision – What’s Wrong With El Paso?

2022-04-26 Rich Wright ballpark, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider 3 comments

This was one of El Chuqueño’s first posts. It originally appeared on 28 August 2012. I like El Paso. What

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Retrovision – The Big Lie

2022-04-26 Rich Wright Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 23 April 2018. The advocates for the City’s Quality of Life projects pretend that we

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The New Downtown Plan

2022-04-25 Rich Wright Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 10 comments

The El Paso Inc. reported this week that there’s a new plan for downtown El Paso. This month, the DMD,

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TEDx El Paso: A City Reimagined

2022-03-04 Rich Wright ballpark, Chamber of Commerce, City Management, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez, TxDOT 6 comments

Saturday, March 5 (tomorrow, or today, or last week, depending on when you are reading this) TEDx El Paso is

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Be Careful What You Wish For

2022-02-24 Rich Wright Economic Development, Urban Planning One comment

Here’s a story from the New York Times headlined “The Next Affordable City Is Already Too Expensive.” The names are

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Wealth in Different Terms

2022-02-23 Rich Wright Economic Development, Urban Planning Leave a comment

From TheAtlantic.com: Money and markets have been around for thousands of years. Yet as central as currency has been to

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Blame It On the Strategic Plan

2022-02-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

If you want to know what’s wrong with governance in El Paso, you have to look no further than the

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The Minimum Wage

2022-01-18 elrichiboy Economic Development, Economics, New Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

On January 1, New Mexico’s minimum wage went to $11.50 an hour. That’s right. A minimum wage job in Sunland

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Borderplex Alliance Wins Economic Development Award

2021-10-11 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Economic Development, Slider One comment

From the El Paso Inc.: The Borderplex Alliance has been recognized with an international award for its work on economic

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Retrovision: The Local Economy is Booming. For Contractors.

2021-10-06 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider Leave a comment

This story originally appeared on 7 August 2017. Good news, sports fans. The El Paso economy is growing, according to

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El Paso’s Failed Economic Development

2021-09-28 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Slider 9 comments

Remember when El Chuqueño speculated that the recent shakeup in the City’s Economic Development Department might be because the proposed

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Manufacturing Consent

2021-09-16 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Downtown Management District, Economic Development, El Paso Times, Manufacturing Consent, Media, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes 6 comments

Reality is subjective. That notion isn’t popular in the hard sciences, but anyone with a television or internet connection can

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The Exodus

2021-09-14 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, El Paso Times, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Nine years ago, powerful people in El Paso pushed the 2012 Quality of Life bonds. According to U.S. Census estimates,

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Another One Bites the Dust

2021-09-08 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Jessica Herrera, Slider, Taxes One comment

According to this article in the El Paso Times, some changes are taking place in the City of El Paso’s

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They’re Just Wrong

2021-09-01 Rich Wright City Council, Economic Development, Peter Svarzbein, Slider 8 comments

During the debate about the Mayor’s veto yesterday District 1 Representative and reported candidate for Commissioners Court Peter Svarzbein said

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Why Your Taxes Are So High

2021-08-13 elrichiboy Alexsandra Annello, Cassandra Hernandez, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, City Management, Downtown, Economic Development, Isabel Salcido, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

El Paso has the highest residential property tax rates in the country. Our elected officials used to say that was

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El Paso One of the Most Affordable Cities For Home Buyers

2021-06-28 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Did you miss this story from KTSM.com? The housing market has been booming this year, but the price of real

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What’s Wrong With El Paso

2021-06-27 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 6 comments

One time a guy called me up. I took a meeting with him at the Mexican Cottage. He was a

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