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The Last Great Place

2013-09-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

  They’re aren’t a lot of decent public spaces left for the common man.  If you squint, the future looks

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It’s All Better

2013-08-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I got a couple of reports from the meeting last Thursday of the El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau Strategic

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Why It’s Not All Good

2013-08-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Tomorrow the El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau Strategic Communication Task Force will meet  at the Convention Center to discuss

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Caro Quintero and the Border Patrol

2013-08-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Two curious and apparently unrelated news stories are eerily inversely similar. In one, a Mexican judge ordered the release of

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Things about Uruguay

2013-08-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Uruguay is slightly smaller that the state of Washington. It almost never freezes in Uruguay. Uruguay’s highest point is Cerro

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Guatitas a la Española

2013-08-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I got invited to a futbol club social gathering the other night.  Dinner was involved.  Chilenos eat late. Oh good,

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Valparaiso’s Staircase Culture

2013-07-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Don’t go up the stairs at night,” our landlady told me. “They’ll steal your camera.” But it was June. The

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Crazy Joe Muench

2013-07-24 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, economic development, Media One comment

Two recent columns by El Paso Times’ Joe Muench question the straw men opposing progress in El Paso. Here’s one,

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If you go to bed drunk in South America . . .

2013-07-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

the room spins in the opposite direction.

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How El Paso (and Juarez) Are Different Than Chicago

2013-07-12 elrichiboy downtown, economic development Leave a comment

I was born in Chicago. I don’t remember it well. I was young at the time. There was a time,

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No good deed goes unpunished.

2013-07-09 elrichiboy downtown, economic development Leave a comment

I bet Josh and Woody Hunt, and Paul Foster and Alejandra de la Vega weren’t expecting the negative backlash they

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Weather report

2013-07-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s raining in Valparaiso right now. A storm blew in from Antarctica, and the sea is angry. (I’ve never had

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Bamboozled in Thrall

2013-06-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

The most logical explanation for the illogical behavior of our immediate past City Council is that they completely believed the

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Bland El Paso

2013-06-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, economic development 2 comments

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. And maybe it wasn’t that much of a secret. But really, they should have

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Bob Dylan on El Paso’s New Slogan

2013-06-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Cold-blooded killer, stalking the town Cop cars blinking, something bad going down Buildings are crumbling in the neighborhood But there’s

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What’s the Secret?

2013-06-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Some of the decisions that have been made lately make me think that the decision makers aren’t putting all their

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Name that Team

2013-06-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s my take on the El Paso Triple A Baseball Team Naming Fiasco, henceforth, Namegate. (Here’s the story in the

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How Steve-O Lost the Election

2013-06-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I think Steve was clueless. I think that his lopsided loss in the general election caught him flatfooted. He surrounded

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Mr. Natural wants to know

2013-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In response to The Road to Economic Development, Mr. Natural asks Right on about promoting cultural and educational values in

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When hackers attack

2013-06-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My web host informs me that someone has been trying to access El Chuqueno through a brute force attack. I’m

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