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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The dog barks, and the caravan moves on.
An alert reader pointed out that this week Bloomberg.com, that bastion of liberal thinking, ran an article called Four Reasons
Here’s some informed speculation about TIRZ 12, the Lost Dog TIRZ. I think it has something to do with that
Here’s the City’s Economic Development Director spinning the TIRZs: City Council voted to approve the creation of Tax Increment Reinvestment
I think the City spends our money poorly. The City spends our money courting out-of-town businesses that compete with our
According to this story in the USAToday online (which an alert reader directed me to), El Paso was the ninth
El Paso Street was El Paso’s first street. Mandy the Mule used to haul transnationals down the middle of the
You may ask yourself, “What are we going to do about the direction the City of El Paso is headed?”
On Wednesday the Wall Street Journal came out with a section called “The Future of Cities.” The lead story was
This post originally appeared on 01 October 2015. Some things have changed since then. Our Commercial property tax rate is
Here’s District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez Brown, talking about City Council’s economic development initiatives to the Texas Standard: “You develop
The word in the smoke-filled back rooms of the the back alleys of the side streets of the halls of
This story from Harper’s is about New York, but it’s the formula our city fathers are emulating. New York has
An alert reader sent me this relevant article from Salon: [A]s the adage goes, all economics is local. One part
The City thinks the way to make El Paso attractive is to tart her up like a hooker in a
There are lots of places where people can live and El Paso is one of them. Unfortunately for the El
The City can’t. Which is probably why they can’t stop making mistakes. If you’re going to pretend your mistake never
I’ve been chasing someone else’s disposable income my whole life. Before slinging drinks on the front lines of the service
What if they’re doing it wrong? What if their plans for economic development are based on false assumptions? What if
I went by the liquor mega-store this week and there were four cars in the parking lot. Inside there were
The Central Appraisal District tells us that house values are up 7.6 percent this year. While the U.S. Census Bureau