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Feeding the Neighbor’s Dog

2018-05-01 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Is city government representing you? Or is it working for the fat cats who have a financial interest in all

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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.

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Mayor Still Sitting on Ethics Revisions

2018-04-26 elrichiboy City Council, Ethics, Slider One comment

Remember this story from the March 19 El Paso Inc.? Members of the city’s Ethics Review Commission have been waiting

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The Big Lie

2018-04-23 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

The advocates for the City’s Quality of Life projects pretend that we need ballparks and arenas to spur economic development.

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About Those Quality of Life Projects

2018-04-19 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Advocates of the Quality of Life bonds completely misrepresented the facts before the 2012 elections. They minimized the impact on

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The Long Goodbye

2018-04-13 elrichiboy City of Dust, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

The U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimates are out for El Paso County, and the years long trend of flatlined population

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It’s All In The Spin

2018-04-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Media, Slider 2 comments

Here’s the headline and lede of a story on KVIA: El Paso makes top 125 list of best places to

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Tales From the Morgue

2018-04-12 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, Slider One comment

From a May 10, 2012, article in the El Paso Times* written by Cindy Ramirez: The city’s November bond issue

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Correction: The Recent City Council Vote To Raise Your Taxes

2018-04-11 elrichiboy Corrections, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Recently I wrote that City Council, by increasing El Paso Electric’s Street Rental Fee, cut the reduction to our electric

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El Paso is Unique

2018-04-10 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Slider 4 comments

Marketers like to talk about a product’s Unique Selling Proposition; that is, the things that differentiate a product from other

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The City’s Filmmaker Program: Built to Fail

2018-04-05 elrichiboy Art, City Council, Slider 3 comments

Tuesday City Council voted to give up to $30,000 to local filmmakers for projects produced in El Paso. Of course,

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Last Week, City Council Raised Your Taxes

2018-03-26 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

As I mentioned last week, but this time from the El Paso Inc.: The price that El Paso Electric must

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“Mayor Sitting on Ethics Revisions”

2018-03-19 elrichiboy City Council, Slider 5 comments

That’s the front page headline of the El Paso Inc. this weekend. Here’s what it says: Members of the city’s

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This Guy Got Beat Up By the (Alleged) Kern Place Dog-Killer

2018-03-08 elrichiboy News, Slider 2 comments

That’s Mark Boykin, the proprieter of Mark’s Cantina. Three years ago Mr. Boykin accused his next door neighbor, Carlos Fernandez,

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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

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Naysayers, Malcontents, and Liars

2018-02-26 elrichiboy ballpark, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 5 comments

Former City Council Representative and Mayoral Candidate and current member of the board of the Downtown Management District Steve Ortega,

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Quality of Life

2018-02-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

If you found fifty bucks on the street, what would you do with it? Pay down your credit card debt?

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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

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Our Local Public Private Partnerships

2018-02-06 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Slider Leave a comment

Public Private Partnerships are all the rage. The ballpark got one. The City is looking to develop luxury apartments on

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Seth Godin on Arenas

2018-02-04 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, sports, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Seth Godin today talks about cities building stadiums in a column titled The Super Bowl is for Losers. So why

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