Yesterday City Council overrode Mayor Margo’s veto, allowing the city to raise tax rates for the third year in a
Category: Taxes
Tommy Gonzalez Is Pissed Off
Here’s what City Manager Tommy Gonzalez said in an interview with CBS4Local: Gonzalez also listed iFly and Top Golf as
The Cost of Living Well
Apparently our elected officials of the County Commissioners Court are giving themselves about a twenty percent raise next year. This
The Business of Government
I lifted some slides from City Manager Tommy Gonzalez’ presentation on the water parks to City Council. Like this one:
Passing the Buck
KVIA reports that Mayor Dee Margo vetoed the tax increase that City Council approved. El Paso Mayor Dee Margo on
Trench Warfare
Those nice people at the Texas Department of Transportation are considering widening the freeway in Downtown El Paso, eliminating lots
Clank Clank Clank Went the Trolley
The El Paso Times reported yesterday on the City’s streetcar debacle. Sun Metro officials are looking for ways to boost
Things Are Great. Just not for Taxpayers.
This week there’s a column by the editor of the El Paso Inc. about how great DWNTWN is doing. Property
Surprise, Surprise!
You know, the City used to justify municipal extravagance with the rationalization that we need to swing our tax base
Clueless in El Chuco
An alert reader forwarded me District 8 City Representative Cissy Lizarraga’s latest newsletter. Rep. Lizarraga is proud to tell her
Brother, Can You Spare a Billion Bucks?
This November, the City of El Paso will ask its taxpayers to approve a $940 million bond. From CBS4Local.com: “At
Chime the F Off
From today’s print version of the El Paso Times: City staff said 2,200 El Pasoans participated in a community-wide survey
Quality of Life
What makes for a good quality of life? I may be shallow, but my Quality of Life is improved when
“Assessment Limits”
Sharp-eyed El Pasophiles will have noticed that El Paso came in both first and second place in homestead property tax
“And the Winner Is . . .”
Yay! We’re Number 1 on another list! The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy has come out with their list of
Riding the Decline
Our city leaders — all of them, the elected and the economic and the City staff — are managing El
Retrovision: The Bane of QoL: O & M
This article originally appeared on 18 December 2014. El Paso is a cash-strapped town. Nobody foresaw that our boom years,
The Trouble With TIRZs
You might no be so pissed off when you wrote that property tax check if your money was going for
Retrovision: A Local Expert’s Perspective on Economic Development
This post originally appeared on 10 October 2015. Here’s what Jerry Pacheco, the Executive Director of the International Business Accelerator,
Common Sense
Here’s an ad from Britain’s Labour Party which has some relevance for our local tax policies. But you know what