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Co-Sign

2020-01-07 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Can we get the members and board members of the Borderplex Alliance to co-sign on some of the bonds the

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Who Rules El Paso?

2019-12-20 elrichiboy Corruption, How to Live in El Paso, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

I’ll give you a hint. Follow the money. There’s a new book out titled Who Rules El Paso? Give the

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“An Intersection of Possibilities”

2019-12-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Juarez, New Mexico, population, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

From the people who brought you the Glass Beach Study. Here’s a nice video promoting El Paso, Las Cruces and

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Bloodsuckers

2019-12-07 elrichiboy Economic Development, How to Live in El Paso, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Now in our “vibrant downtown!” From PopularResistance.org: Blood has become big business in the United States and there is no

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El Paso’s Impending Civil War

2019-11-28 elrichiboy Politics, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Here’s an article I found on Salon.com, parts of which correspond to our situation in El Paso. The current issue

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El Paso’s PDNG Hangover

2019-11-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Media, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Y’all remember the Paso del Norte Group. Back in the aughts, they were going to launch El Paso’s renaissance. They

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How El Paso Lost the Election

2019-11-08 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Elections, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

I don’t know it you noticed, but the citizens of El Paso lost that election the other day. The City

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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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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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Revelation

2019-08-10 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Welfare for the Rich 8 comments

They said it was about Economic Development. They said that once we built those Quality of Life projects, companies would

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Things Are Great. Just not for Taxpayers.

2019-07-29 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This week there’s a column by the editor of the El Paso Inc. about how great DWNTWN is doing. Property

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WSJ On Tax Incentives: A Race to the Bottom

2019-07-03 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Here’s a story from last week’s Wall Street Journal about using tax incentives to lure businesses: Concerns have mounted in

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Retrovision: Forget the Arena

2019-06-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

This article originally appeared on 8 February 2017. Here’s a feel-good story from the El Paso Times about how few

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Riding the Decline

2019-05-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Our city leaders — all of them, the elected and the economic and the City staff — are managing El

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The Trouble With TIRZs

2019-05-15 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Great Wolf Resorts, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez, Trolley, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

You might no be so pissed off when you wrote that property tax check if your money was going for

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Common Sense

2019-05-10 elrichiboy Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Here’s an ad from Britain’s Labour Party which has some relevance for our local tax policies. But you know what

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Retrovision: The Real Cost of the Quality of Life Projects

2019-05-03 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Economic Development, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for

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The Effects of Corruption

2019-03-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in this interview with the El Paso Inc. Scholarly

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Corruption: The Short Version

2019-03-28 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

The City of El Paso is trading 2,313 acres adjacent to the golf course in Northeast El Paso to Paul

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Who Dropped the Soap?

2019-03-22 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Here’s another informative piece from Vic Kolenc of the El Paso Times, headlined El Paso Water board breaks land-sale drought

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