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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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I Am a Capitalist

2021-01-07 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Even though I don’t own any capital, I am a capitalist. I still believe that capitalism is the most effective

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Retrovision: Is El Paso City Government a Secret Public/Private Partnership?

2020-02-14 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 27 November 2017. I updated the chart to show the most recent available from the

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City To Give $2.4 Million in Cash to Fund Downtown Apartments

2020-02-07 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

From the El Paso Times: Downtown El Paso’s slow-to-grow housing market is getting a new addition when a 13-story office

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MCAD, Parks, and Libraries to Merge?

2020-02-06 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

That’s the latest rumor to emanate from the bowels of City Hall. According to the rumor, the City of El

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Retrovision: Economic Impact

2020-01-08 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 17 January 2017. What do you think has more effect on the El Paso economy.

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Co-Sign

2020-01-07 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Can we get the members and board members of the Borderplex Alliance to co-sign on some of the bonds the

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El Paso’s PDNG Hangover

2019-11-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Media, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Y’all remember the Paso del Norte Group. Back in the aughts, they were going to launch El Paso’s renaissance. They

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A Changing of the Guard

2019-10-16 elrichiboy ballpark, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Politics, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

The power dynamic has subtly shifted at City Hall. The developers used to call the shots. But, since El Paso’s

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Retrovision: The City’s Plan Sucks.

2019-10-03 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

This article originally appeared on 03 May 2018. The City of El Paso is implementing a plan that some rich

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Down the Economic Development Rabbit Hole

2019-09-27 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, population, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Brutus had a good post at ElPasoSpeak.com yesterday. His post included this slide: Perhaps you’ll remember this article titled Whose

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The Trouble With TIRZs

2019-05-15 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Great Wolf Resorts, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez, Trolley, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

You might no be so pissed off when you wrote that property tax check if your money was going for

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Retrovision: The Real Cost of the Quality of Life Projects

2019-05-03 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Economic Development, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for

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El Paso vs. Phoenix: An Economic Development History

2018-11-25 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Slider 5 comments

Our recent municipal expenses are based on the (secret) idea that Phoenix outpaced El Paso in economic development since 1950

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Stockholm Syndrome

2018-10-30 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, TIRZs 5 comments

Today, City Council decided to give the farm to Great Wolf Resorts, in the form of swathes of land, obscene

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The Great Wolf Swindle

2018-10-28 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

The City must have stayed up late figuring out how to swindle the taxpayers with that new Great Wolf Lodge.

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Are Their Lips Moving?

2018-08-20 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, TIRZs One comment

El Paso Inc. this week had a nice feature on Hunt Companies’ development in Northwest El Paso. Have you been

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About That Great Wolf Lodge

2018-08-06 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Taxes 9 comments

The poobahs at Great Wolf got hornswoggled into opening one of their hotel water parks in El Paso. Have you

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Bloomberg on Publicly Funded Stadiums

2018-07-19 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

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 Home of Predatory Capitalism

2018-06-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Ethics, Perspectives, Public Private Partnerships, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Here’s another killer essay about the decline of American civilization. A friend, recently, told me a very interesting and telling

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