Skip to content

El Chuqueño

The dog barks, and the caravan moves on.

  • Home
El Chuqueño

Category: Politics

Joel Is Right

2018-06-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

There are lots of places where people can live and El Paso is one of them. Unfortunately for the El

Continue reading

We’re Number One!

2018-04-30 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, School Districts, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

No, not for some made up cost-of-living click bait. For taxes! Property tax rates for industrial properties, to be specific.

Continue reading

About That Arena

2018-03-07 elrichiboy City Council, Lobbyists, Politics, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Remember that poll about the arena that KVIA did? Only 26% of the residents of El Paso County who were

Continue reading

Retrovision: The Master Plan

2018-03-05 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

I was going to write about the soccer stadium, but I realized that I already did. This post originally appeared

Continue reading

The City of El Paso’s New Link Policy Has Nothing To Do With Municipal Golf Courses

2018-02-19 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Politics, Slider 3 comments

Last week I created a link to the Interim Director of Municipal Financial Operations’ presentation to City Council, which contained

Continue reading

Survey Says:

2018-02-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

Did you see the results of this survey that KVIA did on putting the arena in Duranguito? ABC-7 recently conducted

Continue reading

The 2017 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report

2018-01-16 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

Where is it? Here’s the Financial Reports page for City of El Paso’s Office of the Comptroller. The latest Comprehensive

Continue reading

All The News That Fits Our Agenda

2018-01-11 elrichiboy Media, Politics, Slider 2 comments

Back in 2009, El Paso Inc. ran an interview titled Q and A with Woody Hunt The Real Cost of

Continue reading

Will Tourism Save Us?

2018-01-04 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects One comment

Besides call centers, the City of El Paso’s economic development policy seems to be solely focused on tourism as a

Continue reading

The Conspiracy

2017-12-19 elrichiboy City Council, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Politics, Slider 4 comments

Did y’all read that letter from former District 2 Representative Jim Tolbert? Of course you did. It’s been on a

Continue reading

Rent Seeking

2017-12-16 elrichiboy ballpark, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes One comment

From Investopedia.com: What is ‘Rent-Seeking’ Rent-seeking is the use of the resources of a company, an organization or an individual

Continue reading

How Do We Evaluate Our Economic Development Policy?

2017-12-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Short answer: We don’t. I mean, except by the bank accounts of our community’s wealthiest citizens. They’re not going to

Continue reading

City of El Paso, Inc.

2017-12-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Politics, Slider 5 comments

Here’s a list of lobbyists registered with the City of El Paso. There are links to their lobbying activity during

Continue reading

El Paso Then and Now

2017-12-11 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 2 comments

Perhaps they meant well. Maybe they were trying to seize the moment. Maybe they thought that the tide had turned,

Continue reading

All I Want is Good Government

2017-10-31 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, MountainStar Sports Group, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 5 comments

That’s all I want. Government responsive to the needs of its citizens. All its citizens. Not just the campaign donors.

Continue reading

The Master Plan

2017-10-22 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

How MountainStar Wants to Get You to Pay for Their Futbol Stadium Now it’s a futbol stadium. From the El

Continue reading

The Ugly

2017-10-15 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

Finally, this weekend the El Paso Times ran a guest column bylined by our beloved mayor. Here’s a piece of

Continue reading

Hubris, and an Attack on Democracy

2017-10-03 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 13 comments

They felt the wind and thought it was their own breath. When El Paso blew up, say from somewhere around

Continue reading

It’s Time for Plan B

2017-10-02 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 7 comments

No, not emergency contraception. We missed that boat years ago. It’s time to stop pretending like those Quality of Life

Continue reading

Free Money

2017-09-24 elrichiboy City Council, Politics One comment

Am I reading this right? It’s the attachment for the agenda item for the new office tower downtown. Not only

Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 … 14 Next Posts»

A Buck a Month

Come on. If everyone who read El Chuqueño donated just a dollar a month, I'd have a few more dollars. Make a difference. Invest in the alternative narrative.

The People Speak!

  • John G. Dungan on El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money
  • elrichiboy on “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”
  • Kathy on “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”
  • elrichiboy on I Don’t Like Bullies
  • Max G on I Don’t Like Bullies
  • John G. Dungan on STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso
  • Ron Martinez on City of Dust: Encino, New Mexico
  • Rich Wright on STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso
  • John G. Dungan on STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso
  • elrichiboy on Dead People
Receive new posts right in your InBox!
Loading

El Chuqueño Lately

  • EPEC’s Rate Increase
  • “Intrigue”
  • “Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”
  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money
  • “The Spider”

Stuff we talk about