Outsold

December 19, 2018

Let’s do a little comparison between our economic development efforts and those over at Santa Teresa.

Earlier this year city council agreed to give over $100 million  in economic incentives to a hotel/waterpark.  The recipient plans to spend about $150 million to build the facility and has told us that they will employ 385 hospitality workers.

Just the other day we learned that Santa Teresa will be getting a new cable manufacturing facility.  The company will invest $50 million and plans to employ 342 workers.  The economic incentive granted will be $3.92 million.

Good grief!

We deserve better

Brutus

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Really expensive bus stops

December 18, 2018

Last week  city council will also considered awarding a contract to build 24 Brio stations on the Montana route for $19.6 million dollars.

That means that each station will cost $816,000.

With the median home price in El Paso at $126,000.

That means that each Brio stop is worth the same as 6 and 1/2 houses.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Brio stops in the middle of the block

December 17, 2018

Several of the recent comments on the blog have been about the incidence of jay walking on Mesa street.

Have you noticed that many if not most of the Brio stops are not located at street corners thus requiring riders to walk some distance before reaching an intersection where they can legally cross Mesa.?

Is this a contributor to the number of times people jay walk?

Why don’t the police ticket people who cross the street illegally?

We deserve better

Brutus

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Vote today

December 15, 2018

Here are the early voting statistics:

Have you noticed the lack of activity from the candidates?

The election is today (Saturday, December 15, 2018).

Please vote.

We deserve better

Brutus

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Streetcar ridership

December 12, 2018

Isn’t it a shame that their were no passengers on the streetcar that was recently involved in a traffic accident?

Of course we are thankful that no one got hurt.

Does anyone know what the ridership numbers are on the streetcars?

We deserve better

Brutus

 

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