My two articles last week focused on the impending economic doom of El Paso and the resulting tax increases. I believe that it has become obvious that the tax increases are needed because El Paso government officials have refused to acknowledge the ample evidence of economic strife and instead are hoping to spend their way […]
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Further Proof That Taxes Are About Explode
Through many blog posts, I have been showing how your taxes will be rising soon and that there is nothing you can do about it. I’m not pointing out short incremental tax increases but a substantial increase in the amounts of taxes you will be paying in the coming years. The worst part is that […]
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An Update on the El Paso Economy
Those opposed to the ballpark fiasco continually pointed out that the economics did not make sense. That it was going to the taxpayers that were going to end up paying for the horde’s playground. Last Tuesday some economic news came out at city council but it was glossed over by the city and ignored by […]
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Notice Who Was Absent on the Cultural Center Discussion
Today the city is abuzz about the upcoming Latino cultural center that city council discussed yesterday ad-nauseam. Parading before the cameras were many “El Paso Hispanic leaders,” as the local paper labelled them, imploring city council to make the Mexican-American Cultural Center a reality. After all, it was promised to the community by the politicos. […]
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Hunt and the Flag
Something has been bothering me about the Canutillo flag debacle and Hunt’s involvement in it. At first, I wasn’t able to pinpoint exactly what was bothering me about it. Although it surprises me that a military city like El Paso has had such a muted (corrected typo on 18feb15 at 11:05ET) response to the flag controversy it […]
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City Incompetence on Display with San Jacinto
The ongoing bathroom debacle at the San Jacinto Park clearly demonstrates a dysfunctional El Paso city government. As if the fact that restrooms aren’t important enough for the focal point of the much-touted downtown revitalization project the excuses after excuses mounted by the dysfunctional city council betrays the utter stupidity that drives city government. The […]
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Brian Williams: Bloggers vs. “Professional” Journalists
The thing about “professional” journalists and the disruption created by the Internet is that “professional” journalists continually bemoan the destruction of their trade by untrained citizen journalists, aka bloggers. Journalism has always benefited the elite of the community. It has always been the individuals with money, that have driven what you get to know about […]
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Hunt and Real Estate Transactions
A frequent reader in the legal profession pointed me to a potential issue involving various Hunt companies and El Paso real estate dealings. Other than buying and selling a few homes in the last few years, I do not know much about the complexity of the laws surrounding real estate transactions. What makes it even […]
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The Political Season is Upon Us and the Useful Idiots are Posturing
It is likely that you know that a new political season is upon us. You have probably noticed that the useful idiots have started to posture in service to their masters. As the jockeying for your attention intensifies, I thought it would be a good idea to put together a scorecard of whom each useful […]
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Samsung Warns TV Can Eavesdrop
Those of you who have read the George Orwell 1984 book better not buy a Samsung TV. There has been a raging debate online about the loss of personal privacy because of technology. In the late 1990’s when I lived just outside of Monaco, while working for a Monaco-based company, I thought about the loss […]