Not content with abusing the taxpayers of the community through the ballpark swindle the cabal is at it again this time with a professional soccer team. Look past the glamour of sparkling soccer dreams right through to the small print to where Mountain Star Sports clearly and unequivocally tells you that you will be paying […]
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Cortney Niland Abuses Senior Citizen
As you are all aware, Cortney Niland has been sitting sandwiched in between Ann Morgan Lilly and Larry Romero for some time now because she refuses to sit in her assigned seat. There are many rumors as to what has transpired that has led to her refusing to take her seat. I have shared some […]
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Water Utility Wants You to Pay More
Amazingly, the water utility’s response to the flooding in El Paso is a request for more of your money. My friends in other cities sometimes ask me if I make this stuff up. The fact is that as rich as my imagination is I couldn’t dream up the incompetence that is El Paso. Just last month the […]
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Cortney Niland’s Hypocritical Defense of One of Her Benefactors
On Tuesday, city council discussed the possible annexation of land “along Zaragosa”. During the council’s discourse, there was an outburst by Cortney “Sin Zapatos” Niland towards city attorney Sylvia Borunda-Firth and Oscar Leeser. Many of you who have followed Cortney Niland since her election knows that Niland lacks basic interpersonal skills frequently belittling individuals she perceives […]
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Anatomy of a Public Perception Manipulation Campaign
One of the things I have noticed through the years is that by the time an issue comes to the attention of the community much activity has transpired behind the scenes. Many times the behind the scenes actions are created and managed by political operatives in order to control the outcome of a certain public […]
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The Answer to El Paso Prosperity is Simple
The El Paso Inc. this week published a piece titled “What El Paso can learn from Music City” by Secret Wherrett. In it, Wherrett writes that the El Pasoans that attended the Greater El Paso Chamber’s trip to Nashville returned with a clear understanding of what El Paso can learn from Nashville’s economic initiatives. Interspersed […]
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Limon and Robinson Throw a Party
Every day I get three to four emails with leads about political issues at the city that readers want me to address on my blog. Some of the leads provide detailed information and some give me just the basics. Each are welcome and each requests gets my attention. Sometimes I do not write a blog […]
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The Ballpark and Economic Development
One of the loudest arguments levied by the ballpark proponents was that the ballpark was going to be an economic engine for El Paso. Many of us have continually argued that economic development in El Paso is stagnant because there is no new money coming into the city. What the progressives continually ignore is that […]
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Nickel and Diming Businesses to Death
El Paso has been notorious for driving businesses out of town through nickel and diming them with fees or ill-conceived regulatory policies driven by the “feel-good” ideals that have been detrimental to businesses. Many in the community forget that businesses do not pay fees or taxes but rather it is the taxpayer of the community […]
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Intellectual Property as a Legacy
For some time now, I’ve been contemplating the value of intellectual property. As I understand it, intellectual property are the creations we create for the use by others. Most individuals recognize intellectual property as the music they listen to, or a book they read or even a movie they watch. However, intellectual property is much […]