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Misplaced Priorities

2019-10-27 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Tomorrow City Council will vote to give $45 million cash to Great Wolf Resorts to build a Great Wolf Lodge

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Vote No. Vote Now.

2019-10-22 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

The police and fireman’s unions are going to go big to the polls. They want new stations and Lazy Boy

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A Rose By Any Other Name

2019-10-21 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, El Paso Electric Company, Great Wolf Resorts, Liar Liar, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Here’s a story from KVIA: El Paso City Council members have approved spending more than a million dollars to renovate

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A Changing of the Guard

2019-10-16 elrichiboy ballpark, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Politics, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

The power dynamic has subtly shifted at City Hall. The developers used to call the shots. But, since El Paso’s

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You Can’t Trust the City

2019-10-15 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

The City is asking us to approve $413,112,650 worth of bonds in an upcoming election. Early voting starts next week.

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Pay to Play

2019-10-13 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Here’s a post from PayToPlayLawBlog.com, printed in its entirety. Trends regarding the enactment of pay-to-play legislation remain remarkably consistent and

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Late to the Party

2019-10-09 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, It's All Good, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

I hate to say I told you so, but . . . From the El Paso Times: Data show El Paso’s

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Retrovision: They’re Bullies

2019-10-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 14 August 2018. Did you see this story on KVIA? Texas oilman J.P. Bryan, one

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Opportunity Costs

2019-10-04 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Opportunity Costs, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks 4 comments

The City of El Paso is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on stuff we don’t need. City Council [will

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Retrovision: The City’s Plan Sucks.

2019-10-03 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

This article originally appeared on 03 May 2018. The City of El Paso is implementing a plan that some rich

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The ROI of Campaign Donations

2019-10-03 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

Deciphering what’s happening at City Hall is like trying to see the truth through a cracked crystal. From CBS4Local.com: The

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Shank Shank Shank Went the Trolley

2019-10-02 elrichiboy Dionne Mack, Law Enforcement, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Trolley 5 comments

First they said it was a bus stop, then they said it was a Sun Metro stop, but I think

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Naysayers, Malcontents, and Crazies

2019-10-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Back in 2012, when our city leaders were selling their plan to pimp El Paso, those of us who raised

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Down the Economic Development Rabbit Hole

2019-09-27 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, population, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Brutus had a good post at ElPasoSpeak.com yesterday. His post included this slide: Perhaps you’ll remember this article titled Whose

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The Future Revealed!

2019-09-25 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

I can’t imagine the City of El Paso keeping next year’s budget under an amount that won’t require at least

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The Arena Saga That Wouldn’t Die

2019-09-24 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Ethics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

I lifted this from David Crowder’s article about the Downtown arena that appeared in the El Paso Inc. this weekend.

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Do You Trust City Government?

2019-09-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

I lifted this from the City’s website: The proposed 2019 Public Safety Bond is the City’s plan to use voter approved bonds

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Change is Hard

2019-09-18 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Economic Development, Education, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Uncategorized 9 comments

About ten years ago, the people who really run things in El Paso decided that the city needed public amenities

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A Chance for a Do-Over

2019-09-16 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Ethics, Great Wolf Resorts, Henry Rivera, Opportunity!, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

And how often in life do you get a Mulligan? This was in this week’s El Paso Inc. It looks

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Did the Mayor of El Paso Fire the Editor of the City’s Daily?

2019-09-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

It sure looks like it. On September 17, 2017, this editorial appeared in the print edition of the El Paso

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