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All the News That Fits an Agenda

2021-01-21 elrichiboy Breaking News, Ethics, Media, Slider 5 comments

Do you depend on the El Paso Times to keep you informed on local news? Or maybe you count on

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The Failing Health of Government By Spin

2020-12-30 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Ethics, Media, Politics, Slider, Technology Leave a comment

El Paso has a long history of catering to private interest in the name of public good. That worked before

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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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Dark Money

2020-12-02 elrichiboy elections, Ethics, Slider, The "Progressives" 4 comments

Many people were upset by that anonymous non-political political mailer that went out before the general election. But I suspect

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What Do You Reckon?

2020-11-01 elrichiboy City Management, elections, Ethics, Sam Rodriguez, Slider 3 comments

Today the El Paso Times published a guest column from City Engineer Sam Rodriguez. A cursory scan reveals that is

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Your Freudian’s Slipping

2020-10-21 elrichiboy elections, Ethics, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Slider 2 comments

Here’s Mayor Dee Margo talking about his regime: Under his regime? Pol Pot had a regime. Stalin had a regime.

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Retrovision: Rancho El Paso

2020-10-14 elrichiboy arena, Borderplex Alliance, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, Ethics, Slider 2 comments

This article originally appeared on 10 March 2017. Our City Fathers would have you believe that El Paso is a

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Community First Coalition’s “Does El Paso City Hall Represent you?”

2020-09-25 elrichiboy arena, ballpark, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, elections, Ethics, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, video 2 comments
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Campaign Finance Shenanigans

2020-02-20 elrichiboy Corruption, elections, Ethics, Slider One comment

Those nice guys at The Forma Group lent almost $7,000 to their client Debbie Torres for her District 6 runoff

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Breaking News: The Ethics Commission Meets

2019-10-17 elrichiboy Corruption, Dee Margo, Ethics, Slider, Support El Chuqueño 2 comments

Today at 1:30, the City Ethics Commission will meet in City Council Chambers to discuss the Ethics Complaint filed against

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The Arena Saga That Wouldn’t Die

2019-09-24 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, Ethics, quality of life projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

I lifted this from David Crowder’s article about the Downtown arena that appeared in the El Paso Inc. this weekend.

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A Chance for a Do-Over

2019-09-16 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, economic development, Ethics, Great Wolf Resorts, Henry Rivera, Opportunity!, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

And how often in life do you get a Mulligan? This was in this week’s El Paso Inc. It looks

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What’s Good for the Goose

2019-08-02 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, Breaking News, Dee Margo, Ethics, quality of life projects, Slider One comment

Popular Italian tenor Max Grossman sent me an email this week that contained this interesting information: The Mayor of El

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Just Like Democracy. Except not.

2019-06-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee Margo, Ethics, Slider 5 comments

Did you hear about the latest attempt by your favorite City Council to stifle any voice of dissent? From the

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Mayor Margo, I Apologize

2019-05-24 elrichiboy Boondoggles, Corrections, Dee Margo, Ethics, Great Wolf Resorts, Liar Liar, quality of life projects 2 comments

Yesterday I called the Mayor a liar because he made the following statement to his constituents regarding the City’s population

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Life Lessons

2019-05-13 elrichiboy Ethics, perspectives Leave a comment

Here’s some wisdom from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet’s main man, via getpocket.com. To get what you want, deserve what you

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Ex-Rep Heather Wilson

2019-03-12 elrichiboy Dee Margo, Ethics, Slider 4 comments

This week, UTEP announced, as the sole finalist to replace outgoing President Diana Natalicio, the former congresswoman from New Mexico

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Disinformation

2019-03-05 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Ethics, Liar Liar, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Maybe you saw this op-ed in the El Paso Times this weekend: We are proud El Paso residents, but it

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OPM

2019-01-25 elrichiboy arena, Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee Margo, Ethics, Slider 4 comments

It’s hard to believe that any of the arena backers would be so enthusiastic if they were investing their own

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What Is That Word?

2019-01-21 elrichiboy Boondoggles, City Council, City Management, Dee Margo, Ethics, Slider One comment

noun plural noun: ethics; noun: ethics 1. moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity.

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