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About the Arena

2023-01-03 Rich Wright The Arena, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Economics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider One comment

Advocates say we need the arena as an engine of economic development. That’s not how economic development works. If you

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The Regressive Nature of Property Taxes

2022-02-06 Rich Wright Taxes, Economics, Inequality 4 comments

Let’s look at wealth. For a working man, or woman, most of their wealth is represented by their homes. Homes

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The Minimum Wage

2022-01-18 elrichiboy Economics, Economic Development, 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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“We Must Not Go Back to Normal”

2021-08-09 elrichiboy Perspectives, Economics, Inequality Leave a comment
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The Subscription Economy

2021-07-07 elrichiboy Inequality, Cost of Living, Economics, Slider, The Economy, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Here’s a sobering piece I found on Medium.com: For years, banks and ultra-elites (bankrolled by years of money-printing, corporate socialism,

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Insatiable Greed

2021-06-08 elrichiboy Economics, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

Wealth and income inequality is a big problem. Remember Supply Side Economics? From Wikipedia: In 1981, Reagan significantly reduced the

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The People Speak!

  • Andre on You Can Pay When You’re Dead
  • Paul Pino on The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers
  • Paul Pino on The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers
  • Lela Gayle Braswell Merz on City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico (Updated)
  • Laurel on City of Dust: Monticello, New Mexico
  • Mark Z on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Greg on Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One
  • Annony on New Chief, Same as the Old Chief
  • Jerry K on Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One
  • Jessamyn C Young on Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One

El Chuqueño Lately

  • James Garner as “Marlowe”
  • You Can Pay When You’re Dead
  • “Kansas City Confidential”
  • The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers
  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”

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