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Another Salvo in the War on Taxpayers

2022-05-18 Rich Wright City Council, Cassandra Hernandez, Cissy Lizarraga, City Management, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, MountainStar Sports Group, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

The City of El Paso, the El Paso Chamber of Commerce, and MountainStar Sports group are waging a class war

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Homeowners Carry the Burden

2022-04-14 Rich Wright Taxes, Chamber of Commerce, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 2 comments

Here’s a couple of factoids I extracted from this El Paso Times article about rising property valuations: The overall market

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Ahead of the Curve

2022-04-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 2 comments

Here’s an impractical solution to the decline in baseball’s popularity, headlined Baseball is Dying. Government Should Take It Over. From

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Take Me Out to the Ballgame

2022-04-05 Rich Wright ballpark, El Paso Times, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 2 comments

The El Paso Times ran an advertisement for article about the upcoming Chihuahuas baseball season in the print edition today.

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The Naked Emperor

2022-04-05 Rich Wright Deck Park, Liar Liar, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 3 comments

Recently Lina Ortega and David Jerome penned an opinion piece for the El Paso Times. Here’s some of it: Sixty

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The Emerging Front

2022-04-01 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Chamber of Commerce, Elections, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider Leave a comment

We are at war. No, I’m not talking about the Ukraine. I’m talking about the undeclared class war that MountainStar

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Circle the Wagons

2022-03-28 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Did I ever mention that the El Paso City Government, the Chamber of Commerce, and MountainStar Sports have declared war

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The Ongoing Class War

2022-03-14 Rich Wright Tommy Gonzalez, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 3 comments

Have I ever mentioned that it feels like the City of El Paso, and the El Paso Chamber of Commerce,

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TEDx El Paso: A City Reimagined

2022-03-04 Rich Wright Economic Development, ballpark, Chamber of Commerce, City Management, 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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El Paso is at War

2022-02-21 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Cesar Blanco, City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

It’s a class war. The City of El Paso, and the Chamber of Commerce, and MountainStar Sports Group, have declared

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What’s Best for El Paso

2022-02-19 Rich Wright Widening I-10, Cesar Blanco, Deck Park, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, The Trench, TxDOT, Veronica Escobar 6 comments

Building the Borderland Expressway makes more sense for El Paso than widening the freeway downtown. If we removed the through

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The Myth of the Trickle Down Economy

2021-12-08 elrichiboy Inequality, City Council, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

From Business Insider India: Inequality has remained persistently high for decades, and a new report shows just how stark the

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Fooling Pete Buttigieg

2021-11-29 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning, Veronica Escobar 8 comments

Vic Kolenc covers the downtown freeway deck park in this story from the El Paso Times: A project to build

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I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

2021-11-23 Rich Wright Deck Park, ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT 11 comments

I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing the traffic coming

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What’s Next? After Voters Reject Albuquerque Soccer Stadium Bond

2021-11-05 elrichiboy Slider, MountainStar Sports Group, Taxes, The Trench 3 comments

From Albuquerque’s channel 13, KRQE.com: After voters soundly rejected the idea of a publicly financed soccer stadium, New Mexico United

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“Fossil fuel industry gets subsidies of $11m a minute, IMF finds” – The Guardian

2021-10-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Public Private Partnerships, Slider 7 comments

The Guardian says that fossil fuel industries are welfare queens. The fossil fuel industry benefits from subsidies of $11m every

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The Bamboozlers and the Bamboozled

2021-09-30 elrichiboy MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT 4 comments

An alert reader sent me to this story in New Mexico In Depth: Albuquerque voters will decide in November whether

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Consider the Deck Park

2021-09-20 elrichiboy MountainStar Sports Group, ballpark, Slider, Taxes, The Trench, TxDOT 11 comments

The latest push from the people who want to build a deck over the freeway is connectivity. Connect those neighborhoods

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Manufacturing Consent

2021-09-16 Rich Wright City Council, Chamber of Commerce, 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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He’s a Witch!

2021-09-15 elrichiboy TxDOT, ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Trench 3 comments

From a September 5, 2021 article by Sara Sanchez in the El Paso Inc.: A multimillion-dollar project that includes rebuilding

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