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Change is Hard

2019-09-18 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Boondoggles, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, downtown, economic development, Education, quality of life projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Uncategorized 9 comments

About ten years ago, the people who really run things in El Paso decided that the city needed public amenities

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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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F is for Forget About it

2019-08-16 elrichiboy Dee Margo, Education, School Districts, Slider 3 comments

This just in, from the El Paso Times: The El Paso Independent School District is the only public school district

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Back Away From The Computer

2018-10-30 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Education, School Districts, Slider 4 comments

Remember when our good friends on the Board of the El Paso Independent School District were selling us that $668

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Retrovision: The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2018-08-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, cost of living, economic development, Education, quality of life projects, Taxes One comment

This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for

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Educating the Electorate

2018-06-05 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Education, elections, Media 2 comments

The media aren’t going to do it. Have any of them reported on El Paso’s abysmal population growth rate? Have

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Our Local Education

2018-04-18 elrichiboy Education One comment

In this piece that I picked up from Brutus’ blog, and which appeared here originally, the author says you don’t

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Driving Down the Road, Gazing in the Rearview Mirror

2018-02-22 elrichiboy arena, City Council, downtown, economic development, Education, elections 4 comments

I get it. The billionaires are putting a lot of money into spiffing up downtown. And we better jump on

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Retrovision: The Road to Economic Development

2018-01-24 elrichiboy ballpark, economic development, Education, quality of life projects, School Districts 4 comments

This is a lightly edited version of an article that originally appeared on 6 June 2013. Since then, very little

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Grit

2017-07-31 elrichiboy economic development, Education, video Leave a comment

Here’s Angela Lee Duckworth talking about grit, the power of passion and perseverance. Check it out.

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We’re Not Last!

2017-07-25 elrichiboy Education 2 comments

Here’s a list from everybody’s favorite click-bait list creator. WalletHub did a study of the most and least educated MSAs

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The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2017-04-12 elrichiboy arena, City Council, economic development, Education, Slider Leave a comment

Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for a the city with the second lowest per

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Make El Paso Great Again

2017-03-30 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, economic development, Education Leave a comment

Lemme tell you how to get us out of that hole that the hubris of misguided city officials, at the

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Brutus Speaks!

2016-12-30 elrichiboy Education, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Media, Slider Leave a comment

Brutus over there at ElPasoSpeak makes some good points with deeper implications, in this post titled EPISD bonds-story changes again.

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Learn to Play the Piano (Sort of)

2016-12-27 elrichiboy Education, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Is your much better half after you to make some New Year’s resolutions? When Claire asks me what I want

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The $669 Million Question

2016-10-22 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes 4 comments

Originally published way back on 7 September 2016 The El Paso Independent School District wants us to give them $669

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I guess somebody noticed.

2016-10-21 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Slider, Taxes One comment

Mr. Bob Moore, editor of the El Paso Times, informed me via Facebook that the Specific Interest Committee Campaign Finance

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Do Western Refining’s Shareholders Know?

2016-10-20 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes, Uncategorized One comment

Corporate boards have a responsibility to their shareholders, and generally those shareholders expect the corporate boards to maximize profits. It’s

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There’s nothing wrong with EPISD that two thirds of billion dollars won’t fix. Well, hardly anything.

2016-10-20 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

This from the El Paso Times: The El Paso Independent School District is one of two Texas school districts that

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Ya Basta!

2016-09-30 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes 3 comments

Those people advocating for the El Paso Independent School District bond proposal gotta understand. Enough. We’ve got the same people

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