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Why The Streetcars Don’t Work

2019-03-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Trolley 4 comments

If you take Sun Metro from the Glory Road Transfer Center to the Downtown Transfer Center, the bus leaves every

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El Paso Home Building Is At An Historical Low

2019-03-15 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Liar Liar, Slider 2 comments

From a story on Governing.com: In about 62 percent of the cities reviewed, 2018 permitting totals exceeded their averages over

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Ex-Rep Heather Wilson

2019-03-12 elrichiboy Ethics, Slider 4 comments

This week, UTEP announced, as the sole finalist to replace outgoing President Diana Natalicio, the former congresswoman from New Mexico

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Six Years On

2019-03-08 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement, Slider 9 comments

On March 8, 2013, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot the handcuffed prisoner Danny Saenz in the sallyport of

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More Bull****t

2019-03-06 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider, What to Do 4 comments

Watch this video on YouTube Down below El Paso lies Juarez Mexico is different, like the travel folder says (Burt

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Disinformation

2019-03-05 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Ethics, Liar Liar, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Maybe you saw this op-ed in the El Paso Times this weekend: We are proud El Paso residents, but it

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Where Does The Money Grow?

2019-03-01 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes One comment

The Capital Improvements portion of the adopted FY 2019 budget is $198,758,086. Where does it come from? From the budget

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Feds Close the Bridge

2019-02-22 elrichiboy Breaking News, Slider One comment

U.S. Customs agents closed the Bridge of the Americas, aka the Free Bridge, this morning. Apparently the closure was related

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Hide The Pickle

2019-02-19 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider 5 comments

The City is up to something. They’re redoing their website. Here’s what it looks like this morning: Look at that

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Mom and Dad Are Fighting

2019-02-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

You probably saw this op-ed in the Times, where former mayor John Cook and ex-City Manager Joyce Wilson defend their

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Lessons in Horse Trading

2019-02-14 elrichiboy City Management, Downtown, Slider 5 comments

If you’re selling a blind horse, the first thing you tell the mark prospective buyer is how good that horse

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Pity the Rich

2019-02-13 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Those poor little rich folk. They can’t go to dive bars, or downtown Juarez. They’ll never know the joys of

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KVIA’s Special Report on QOL Cost Overruns

2019-02-08 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

KVIA delivered a Special Report last night on the Quality of Life bond projects cost overruns. It’s entertaining. Just spitballing,

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El Paso’s Secret City Government

2019-02-01 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider 8 comments

Here’s something that should concern every El Pasoan. On Monday, El Paso’s City Council is having a Special Meeting. After

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John Stossel on Stadiums

2019-01-30 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

On the occasion of Super Bowl LIII, John Stossel reminds us. Watch this video on YouTube Fortunately, we’re smarter than

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The City of El Paso Is Poorly Managed

2019-01-28 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider One comment

I’ve said it before: The City of El Paso is poorly managed, and they can’t stop messing up. From an

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OPM

2019-01-25 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Ethics, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

It’s hard to believe that any of the arena backers would be so enthusiastic if they were investing their own

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What Is That Word?

2019-01-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Ethics, Slider One comment

noun plural noun: ethics; noun: ethics 1. moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity.

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They Can’t Stop Lying

2019-01-19 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider One comment

Here’s Vic Kolenc (I thought he took the early retirement option?) reporting on the Great Wolf Swindle in the El

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On Roads and Debt

2019-01-17 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes One comment

Here’s a piece from StrongTowns.org about how to deal with deteriorating roads and increasing municipal debt. The story is from

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