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There’s Hope

2021-03-14 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, economic development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Trench, Urban Planning, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

Here’s a Tweet from Lina Hidalgo, the County Judge for Harris County, Texas: NEW: The feds have told TXDOT to

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Some Lawyers are Sleazebags

2021-02-21 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Downtown Historic District, Slider 3 comments

There is a horrific story in this week’s El Paso Inc., about an older Las Cruces woman who was essentially

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Are They Still Going to Fix Tickets?

2020-12-09 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Corruption, Law Enforcement, Slider 2 comments

I guess you heard that we’ve got a new District Attorney. She takes office in January. She’s already made plans

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The Winds of Change?

2020-07-16 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, downtown, elections, Politics, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

The primary elections are over. Incumbent Vince Perez lost his Precinct 3 County Commissioners seat. And James Montoya, veteran District

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Segundo Barrio

2020-06-18 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Commissioners Court, downtown, economic development, History, Slider, TIRZs 2 comments

Have you seen this map of the Segundo Barrio Historic District the El Paso Commissioners Court approved last Monday? It’s

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Retrovision: Six Years On

2020-05-29 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

This article originally appeared on 08 March 2019. On March 8, 2013, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot the

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Late to the Party

2019-10-09 elrichiboy ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, It's All Good, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

I hate to say I told you so, but . . . From the El Paso Times: Data show El Paso’s

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Six Feet High and Rising

2019-08-30 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, cost of living, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Well, lookie here. The dead tree edition of the El Paso Times reports that our County’s Hospital District is raising

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Jobs Report

2019-08-22 elrichiboy Breaking News, Commissioners Court, economic development, Slider 2 comments

Bob Moore reports, via his El Paso Matters twitter feed, that the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that things in

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The Cost of Living Well

2019-08-20 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, cost of living, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

Apparently our elected officials of the County Commissioners Court are giving themselves about a twenty percent raise next year. This

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The Downtown Historic District

2019-06-16 elrichiboy arena, Commissioners Court, Los Gallos Negros, Slider Leave a comment

Today, or tomorrow, or yesterday, depending on when you’re reading this, the El Paso County Commissioners Court will consider, or

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You’re Out!

2019-04-02 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Dee Margo, economic development, Media, quality of life projects, Slider 4 comments

Here’s an article from Reason that describes the plights of three cities who paid for ballparks. “Any normal business person

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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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Bloomberg on Publicly Funded Stadiums

2018-07-19 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, Commissioners Court, economic development, public private partnerships, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

An alert reader pointed out that this week Bloomberg.com, that bastion of liberal thinking, ran an article called Four Reasons

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Not John Cook

2018-05-14 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, elections 8 comments

El Chuqueño does not endorse political candidates (though there’s this one candidate for District 8 that the editorial board is

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Second Highest Tax Rate In The Nation

2018-04-30 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, cost of living, Taxes 5 comments

According to Lincoln Institute’s 50 State Property Tax Comparison, El Paso has the second highest homestead property tax rate among

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Retrovision: The Master Plan

2018-03-05 elrichiboy arena, Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

I was going to write about the soccer stadium, but I realized that I already did. This post originally appeared

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A New Letter From Max Grossman

2018-01-25 elrichiboy arena, Commissioners Court Leave a comment

Max is killing it. Here’s an email I got from him last night. Dear Friends, The League of Women Voters

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Why They Need an Arena

2017-10-23 elrichiboy arena, City Council, Commissioners Court, economic development, quality of life projects, Taxes One comment

Here’s some interesting history to go with the prior post about eight million dollars a year that the El Paso

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