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El Paso’s Fourth Tit

2020-12-07 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Dee Margo, elections, Ethics, Media, Slider 9 comments

I reckon the local oligarchs really got their hooks into the El Paso Times. Yesterday the El Paso Times had

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What Is CooL?

2020-11-12 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, economic development, Slider 3 comments

For marketers, cool is the holy grail. Mostly, marketers find cool after it’s been discovered and try to monetize it,

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The Destruction of Brand El Paso

2020-09-17 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, The "Progressives", Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

What does “El Paso” mean to you? I threw quotes around it because I want to talk about the idea

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The Problem With El Paso

2020-09-10 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Urban Planning 8 comments

The problem is El Paso’s not growing. All the costs of those Quality of Life projects would be easier to

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Paul Foster Likes the Arena

2020-02-25 elrichiboy arena, Brand El Paso, cost of living, economic development, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

The El Paso Inc. ran a story about the restoration of the Plaza Hotel this weekend. That renovation was undertaken

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Relationship Advice for the City of El Paso

2020-02-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, economic development, Slider 4 comments

Dear City of El Paso, I get it. You’ve been dumped. Boeing left you for Huntsville, Alabama, and Huntsville doesn’t

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Retrovision: Let’s Pretend

2020-01-01 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, economic development, retrovision, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 20 February 2017. Let’s pretend all our local “progressive” politicians and their benefactors are pure

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“An Intersection of Possibilities”

2019-12-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, economic development, Juarez, New Mexico, population, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

From the people who brought you the Glass Beach Study. Here’s a nice video promoting El Paso, Las Cruces and

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The El Paso Police “Will Fucking Kill You”

2019-11-29 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Dionne Mack, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

And why not? There’s no downside (for them) when an employee of the City of El Paso kills a resident.

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Retrovision: They’re Bullies

2019-10-05 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, quality of life projects, retrovision, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 14 August 2018. Did you see this story on KVIA? Texas oilman J.P. Bryan, one

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Retrovision: Make El Paso Great Again

2019-08-30 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, economic development, Education, retrovision, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 2017 March 30. Lemme tell you how to get us out of that hole that

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Instagramable

2019-08-12 elrichiboy Art, Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, Juarez, Slider 2 comments

This is the newest hip marker in Juarez, on the east end of the pedestrian mall on dieciseis, a block

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Riding the Decline

2019-05-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Dee Margo, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Our city leaders — all of them, the elected and the economic and the City staff — are managing El

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A Private Letter To Paul Foster

2019-05-20 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, economic development, Slider, Uncategorized 8 comments

If you’re not Paul Foster, please stop reading this. Pablo, Can I call you Pablo? I mean, it’s just us.

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Will Paul Foster Do Better?

2019-05-10 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, economic development, Slider 6 comments

Now that the Borderplex Real Estate Investment Trust has sold its downtown real estate assets to Paul Foster’s Franklin Mountain

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Water Parks = Economic Development

2019-05-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, water parks 3 comments

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. From CBS4Local, in a story headlined New El Paso waterparks bringing economic growth to

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The Effects of Corruption

2019-03-28 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee Margo, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in this interview with the El Paso Inc. Scholarly

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Six Years On

2019-03-08 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement, Slider 9 comments

On March 8, 2013, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot the handcuffed prisoner Danny Saenz in the sallyport of

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On The Other Hand

2019-03-08 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement 2 comments

Here’s a story about some police violence perpetrated by the Boston Transit Authority Police: A former transit police officer and

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Ask Not For Whom the Bell Tolls

2019-01-08 elrichiboy Big Brother, Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, City Management, economic development, Slider 6 comments

Do y’all remember REDCo? Sure you do. If you’re not old enough to remember REDCo, you’ve already left El Paso

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