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My Take: About the City’s New Bond Rating

2023-04-18 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Strategic Plan, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

by Rich Wright I get it. If you can believe everything the City is telling us (always a dubious proposition),

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The Strategic Plan of the City of El Paso – A Critique

2023-03-28 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Strategic Plan 2 comments

It’s good to have a plan. Like the Cheshire Cat said to Alice, if you don’t know where you’re going,

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Tommy Gonzalez Doesn’t Share Our Values

2022-09-16 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Strategic Plan, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

The City can’t stop spending your money. Here’s a story from KFOXtv.com titled ‘We haven’t given up on Great Wolf

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How Did It Get So Bad So Quick?

2022-08-28 Rich Wright City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Strategic Plan, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

In 2012, our property tax rates was 66 cents per $100 of valuation. For FY2023, the property tax rate is

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Retrovision – TEDx El Paso: A City Reimagined

2022-08-23 Rich Wright ballpark, City Management, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Retrovision, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

This post originally appeared on 04 March 2022. Saturday, March 5 (tomorrow, or today, or last week, depending on when

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Trouble in ChucoTown

2022-07-07 Rich Wright City Management, Gensler, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Strategic Plan, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

The trouble with City Government is that the City Manager thinks that his job is to protect and promote the

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Retrovision – Blame It On the Strategic Plan

2022-06-22 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 07 February 2022. If you want to know what’s wrong with governance in El Paso,

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TEDx El Paso: A City Reimagined

2022-03-04 Rich Wright ballpark, Chamber of Commerce, City Management, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez, TxDOT 6 comments

Saturday, March 5 (tomorrow, or today, or last week, depending on when you are reading this) TEDx El Paso is

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Blame It On the Strategic Plan

2022-02-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

If you want to know what’s wrong with governance in El Paso, you have to look no further than the

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