According the City’s FY2019 Budget, El Paso was poised to spend $19,814,987 on Economic Development in the 2019 Fiscal Year.
Category: Tommy Gonzalez
Mayor Margo’s Press Conference
Last week City Manager Tommy Gonzalez gave an interview to CBS4Local. Judging by the page hits and comments, y’all enjoyed
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 Business of Government
I lifted some slides from City Manager Tommy Gonzalez’ presentation on the water parks to City Council. Like this one:
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
It’s All Tommy G
Look, when they hired him, they told him that we were sitting on a half a billion dollars of Quality
“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
Retrovision: Forget the Arena
This article originally appeared on 8 February 2017. Here’s a feel-good story from the El Paso Times about how few
Local Government Is Absurd
Here’s a Letter to the Editor of the El Paso Times from Lower Valley resident Christopher Falk. Once again the
What’s It For?
Why are we still trying to build an arena? MountainStar’s not hot on it anymore. They’re worried about their soccer
Riding the Decline
Our city leaders — all of them, the elected and the economic and the City staff — are managing El
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: The Real Cost of the Quality of Life Projects
This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for
As Goes the Golf Course, So Goes the City
According to this story in the El Paso Times, the City isn’t going to bail out the Vista Hills Country
Will Water Parks Be The New Streetcars? And Other Questions
In March, KFOX14 reported that the streetcars are a money pit. KFOX14 Investigates learned in the first four months of
The Organization Before the Community
The City Manager protects his team. Even when they’re wrong. So if one of his Deputy City Managers decides to
The Effects of Corruption
Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in this interview with the El Paso Inc. Scholarly