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A Tax By Any Other Name

2023-05-10 Max Grossman Slider, Cesar Blanco, Claudia Ordaz, Joe Moody, Lina Ortega, Mary Gonzalez, Widening I-10 4 comments

by Max Grossman On May 3, the Texas House passed HB 78, which would increase the registration fee for a

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El Paso’s Class War is Not Happenstance

2022-04-08 Rich Wright Lina Ortega, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

In their recent opinion piece in the El Paso Times titled El Paso’s Resurgence is not Happenstance, State Representative Lina

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The Naked Emperor

2022-04-05 Rich Wright Deck Park, Liar Liar, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 3 comments

Recently Lina Ortega and David Jerome penned an opinion piece for the El Paso Times. Here’s some of it: Sixty

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What’s Best for El Paso

2022-02-19 Rich Wright Widening I-10, Cesar Blanco, Deck Park, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, The Trench, TxDOT, Veronica Escobar 6 comments

Building the Borderland Expressway makes more sense for El Paso than widening the freeway downtown. If we removed the through

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The Borderland Expressway

2021-07-28 elrichiboy TxDOT, Cesar Blanco, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Trench, Urban Planning 10 comments

Frequent flyer John G. Dungan made this comment on the post Your Representatives in Austin: Frankly, at this juncture, it

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Your Representatives in Austin

2021-07-26 elrichiboy Texas State Government, Cesar Blanco, Chamber of Commerce, Lina Ortega, Slider, The Trench 5 comments

Now you know who your friends are. Or at least who your friends aren’t. From the El Paso Chamber of

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The People Speak!

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  • Tim Holt on “There Is No AI, Really (It’s Just People), with Jaron Lanier”
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