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Harvard Business Review on the The Sunk Cost Fallacy

2021-07-22 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Here’s an article from the HBR on better decision making. Have you continued with a project long after you should

Xavier Miranda on Back to School

2021-07-21 Xavier Miranda Education, Guest Column, School Districts, Slider One comment

Teachers, students, and parents are excited about returning to school, and eager to resume face-to-face instruction. However, adequate preparations are

Lost Highway

2021-07-20 elrichiboy Public Transportation, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning Leave a comment

Here’s a highway article from the Texas Observer: In late 2020, TxDOT released renderings for I-35 that showed a 20-lane

The New DA

2021-07-19 elrichiboy District Attorney, Law Enforcement, Slider, Yvonne Rosales 3 comments

The office of District Attorney for the County of El Paso is the most powerful elected office in El Paso.

Tommy G’s $400K

2021-07-15 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

KTSM.com (and others) report that City Manager Tommy Gonzalez is set to make almost $400,000 a year. El Paso City

More Lies From People Who Should Know Better

2021-07-14 elrichiboy City Management, El Paso Times, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks One comment

I read the El Paso Times so you won’t have to, and I’ve noticed a disturbing pattern. Every time the

El Paso Children’s Hospital’s Identity Crisis

2021-07-13 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, El Paso Children's Hospital, Slider One comment

David Crowder, in last week’s El Paso Inc., wrote: Children’s, a nonprofit organization under El Paso County’s University Medical Center,

Chime the Eff Up

2021-07-12 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks 3 comments

Did you take the City of El Paso’s budget survey? It was called Chime In!, and it was available on

The Subscription Economy

2021-07-07 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economics, Inequality, 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,

You Are Paying the Highest Residential Property Tax Rate in the United States

2021-07-06 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

Today the El Paso City Council is voting to issue another $96 million in Certificates of Obligation. Certificates of Obligation

Ongoing Problems With El Paso Children’s Hospital

2021-07-05 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, El Paso Children's Hospital, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 2 comments

This just in, from the El Paso Inc.: Troubles may be mounting for El Paso Children’s Hospital, which saw its

Happy Independence Day, Comrade

2021-07-04 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Today is the Fourth of July. Independence Day. Today is the day we celebrate our nation’s freedoms. The United States

El Paso One of the Most Affordable Cities For Home Buyers

2021-06-28 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Did you miss this story from KTSM.com? The housing market has been booming this year, but the price of real

What’s Wrong With El Paso

2021-06-27 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 6 comments

One time a guy called me up. I took a meeting with him at the Mexican Cottage. He was a

Where Were the Popo?

2021-06-21 elrichiboy Chief Greg Allen, City Council, City Management, Dionne Mack, El Paso Police Department, Law Enforcement, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Did you read about those three alleged hoodlums who were arrested a couple of weeks ago for a fight in

How Your City Representative Voted on Certificate of Obligation Debt

2021-06-18 elrichiboy Alexsandra Annello, ballpark, Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, City Management, Claudia Lizette Rodriguez, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, Joe Molinar, Peter Svarzbein, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Max Grossman did the heavy lifting and went back to research how our elected representatives voted on various issuances of

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