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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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Our Dirty Little Secret

2018-12-30 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Media, Slider 3 comments

Imma let you in on a little secret. In El Paso, we don’t get the best and brightest. Look, for

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El Paso in the Guardian

2018-12-28 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Lately El Paso has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. But here’s something nice. Here’s a story

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Comedy Council

2018-12-18 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Ethics, Slider 4 comments

From KVIA, here’s Representative Henry Rivera, addressing the leak of a draft of City Manager Tommy “Great Wolf” Gonzalez’ new

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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

2018-11-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, economic development, elections One comment

Today is an inflection point in the evolution of El Paso. Today, voters in the state either will or won’t

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The City’s War Against Poor People

2018-11-05 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, economic development, Slider 6 comments

City Council has turned public policy into a war against poor people. Which is weird, because El Paso is poor.

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“The True Cost of Corruption”

2018-11-04 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, economic development, MountainStar Sports Group, quality of life projects 2 comments

Oh, the irony. Here’s a great interview from the September 8, 2009, issue of the El Paso Inc. with an

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Future El Paso

2018-10-17 Rich Wright Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, downtown, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 6 comments

Isn’t anyone else concerned that the City of El Paso is operating on a plan that was largely conceived in

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From the People Who Brought You “It’s All Good”

2018-10-15 Rich Wright Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, cost of living, economic development, It's All Good, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

If you needed more proof of El Paso’s corrupt, inbred, good old boy network, consider this: Bill Burton, the mastermind

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El Paso’s Finest

2018-07-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement 3 comments

By now you’ve seen the El Paso Police Officer draw his weapon on those kids on the southside. In case

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On The Road Again

2018-07-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, economic development Leave a comment

According to this story in the USAToday online (which an alert reader directed me to), El Paso was the ninth

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The Death of the American City

2018-06-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, economic development Leave a comment

This story from Harper’s is about New York, but it’s the formula our city fathers are emulating. New York has

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I Can Admit It When I Make a Mistake

2018-06-14 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, City Council, economic development, Ethics, Slider 2 comments

The City can’t. Which is probably why they can’t stop making mistakes. If you’re going to pretend your mistake never

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Looking Back to the Future

2018-06-12 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, economic development, Ethics, Slider 2 comments

I’ve been chasing someone else’s disposable income my whole life. Before slinging drinks on the front lines of the service

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Retrovision: A Failure in Branding

2018-06-05 elrichiboy arena, Brand El Paso, City Council, downtown, economic development One comment

This article originally appeared on 24 August 2017. Here’s a letter to the editor from the El Paso Times: Here

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The Home of Predatory Capitalism

2018-06-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Ethics, perspectives, public private partnerships, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Here’s another killer essay about the decline of American civilization. A friend, recently, told me a very interesting and telling

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The Bubble

2018-05-29 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, Brand El Paso, economic development, Slider 7 comments

We all live in our own bubbles. We hang out with people who think like us and dress like us

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The Shame of the City

2018-05-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Taxes 3 comments

Today is trash day in my neighborhood Barrio Heights. Last night, as I was falling to sleep, I realized that

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The Population Box Score

2018-05-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, economic development One comment

Okay, sports fans, I know that some of you are trying to keep score at home, so here are some

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About Those Quality of Life Projects

2018-04-19 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, cost of living, economic development, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Advocates of the Quality of Life bonds completely misrepresented the facts before the 2012 elections. They minimized the impact on

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