Our thanks to elrichboy over at elchuqueno.com for pointing this out to us:
El Paso is as red as they get.
Detroit and Milwaukee are number one and two in terms of having the highest tax rates of the top 50 U.S. cities. El Paso is ranked third.
At least Detroit and Milwaukee have lower debt percentages. They probably get to spend their money on things they want instead of us where we have to spend our money to pay for past purchases.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Helen Marshall sent this in the other day:
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The Escondido bicycle path meeting evidently revealed a city goal that we bet you were not aware of:
This policy was evidently approved by city council.
We would not be surprised to hear that the progressives down at the city want to eliminate our use of electricity too.
I hereby resolve that city council should sell their cars and ride the bus.
We deserve better
Brutus
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The new west side swimming pool was supposed to be turned over to the city in November of this year so that it could be open to the public in January of 2018.
This picture was taken Sunday, October 8, 2017:
Looking inside the building you would see that the swimming pool has not been built yet.
Weren’t we told that city council would be looking after these projects?
We deserve better
Brutus
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The Escondido street meeting situtation has been rolling around in my head.
One of the problems was that the city sent out a letter inviting people to a meeting about “bike lanes” but when the meeting started the city officials went to great lengths to inform the attendees that the meeting was about the “restriping” of Escondido and that bicycle lanes were a consequence of the restriping.
How much money does it cost to paint stripes on a street? Why would the city send five administrators to a neighborhood meeting to discuss a work order that would only take one or two days to complete?
Then again why would the city be restriping a street where the stripes are in fairly good condition, no better or worse than the other streets in the neighborhood? Does the city hold a neighborhood meeting every time a street gets painted?
City staff was not telling the truth. The meeting was about bike lanes. Restriping was their way of trying to change the discussion.
They should be ashamed of themselves.
I guess that TXDOT could claim that they are just restriping I-10.
We deserve better
Brutus
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