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  • Class Action Suit?

    2021-03-03 elrichiboy

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.com: A lawsuit by former state Rep. Joe Pickett alleges the city of El Paso is hiding tax increases in water

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  • Debt and Taxes

    2021-03-02 elrichiboy

    Is your City Council Representative concerned about your property tax burden? Mine isn’t. Back in 2019, she sent out a mailer bragging that in the

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  • ” Billionaire Philanthropy is a ‘PR Scam’ “

    2021-02-28 elrichiboy

    Here’s an interesting take from the CEO who raised his employees base annual pay to $70,000 a year. The CEO known for increasing his employees’

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  • Agenda Review 15 February 202i Recap

    2021-02-23 elrichiboy

    Here’s the video of the 15 February 2021 El Paso City Council Agenda Review meeting. I watched (most of) it so you wouldn’t have to,

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  • Some Lawyers are Sleazebags

    2021-02-21 elrichiboy

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

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  • Armed Thugs Attack Veteran at El Paso V.A.

    2021-02-20 elrichiboy

    El Paso is in the national spotlight again. Again, it’s for all the wrong reasons. From Forbes.com: Shortly after he graduated from high school in

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  • The View From the Top

    2021-02-19 elrichiboy

    Lookie here. I took that photo from in front of the main gate, on Santa Fe, of the ballpark. See that balcony on the southwest

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  • What the EPPD is Against

    2021-02-17 elrichiboy

    During Monday’s City Council Work Session, our elected officials discussed the direction they were going to give our legislative delegation in Austin. To which, I

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  • More Certificate of Obligation Debt

    2021-02-17 elrichiboy

    While you were sleeping Monday night, the kids on City Council were stealing your credit card. Around 10 o’clock, during a City Council Work Session,

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  • Home Valuations to Rise in El Paso

    2021-02-15 elrichiboy

    Vic Kolenc of the El Paso Times reports that the median price for a house in El Paso rose in 2020. A lot. El Paso’s

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  • El Paso, (Temporary) Home of the Carpetbaggers

    2021-02-10 elrichiboy

    You know why there’s so little crime in El Paso? Because we all live here. We’re not going anywhere. You cheat someone, you’re going to

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  • How to Live in El Paso – Franklin Mountains State Park

    2021-02-08 elrichiboy

    The pandemic made some winners. Amazon. Best Buy. FedEx, and UPS. Locally, Crazy Cat. People wondered whatever happened to that bike they used to have,

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The State Law Regarding Public Private Projects

2012-10-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

To tell you the truth, I am getting issue fatigue deciphering all the lies and half-truths that are being promulgated

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The State Law Regarding New Sports Venues

2012-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I spent the afternoon reading the Local Government Code, Title 10, Subtitle C, Chapter 334, “Sports and Community Venues.” It’s

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Baseball is dead

2012-10-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Americans are also losing interest in what was long called the national pastime. Baseball has steadily declined in favor, with

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Lank is At Large and Dangerous

2012-10-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

And so it was that when Claire’s company arrived at four that I was sloshingly hebetated, into the home stretch

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The Golden Life

2012-10-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There’s nothing wrong with the rosy future the ballpark proponents have advanced. The ballpark hasn’t been mired in the inescapable

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Government Serving the Oligarchs

2012-10-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times Letter of the Day for October 1, 2012 The surreptitious way in which this baseball stadium/relocated

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Playing ball

2012-09-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story from El Diario, the City of El Paso has a professional real estate agent/consultant on salary

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Monorail!

2012-09-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

http://youtu.be/AEZjzsnPhnw

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$20 million?

2012-09-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did MountainStar Sports really pay $20 million for the Tucson Padres? According to this story from Forbes magazine, in 2008

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The future of El Paso

2012-09-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Our benevolent overlords the Illuminati Paso del Norte Group have posted on their website their vision for the future of

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At Large in Europe by Lank Dresser

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s day eight of a ten-day tour. I just woke up in a renovated suite in a castle in County

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Winning the War on Drugs

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Under the mask of the war on drugs By Lars Schall “If you look at the drug war from a

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Roseanne Barr on Drugs

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The War on Drugs: Now, after all these years, it even sounds dumb and tiresome. Here we are on our

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What’s wrong with El Paso

2012-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I like El Paso. What about all those people saying it’s not good enough for them? (read more)

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Except for the shooting, the war is over.

2012-08-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“I’d go to Juarez,” the straw man said, “except for all the killing.” (read more)

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Does El Paso need downtown development?

2012-08-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

All across American, downtowns are in trouble. They’re dead, or dying. It’s epidemic. When happy motoring drew middle class Americans

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Eeewww

2012-08-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “While being booked last Thursday night at the Doña Ana

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When machetes attack

2012-08-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “Las Cruces Police detectives learned that Gower was at 810

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The economic impact of a downtown baseball stadium

2012-08-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Are they crazy? Seventy-one games a year. Four hours a game, including pedestrian commute time. The rest of the time,

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Militant Bicyclists

2012-08-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Is it any surprise that most cyclists indentify as atheists and liberals?” (read more) Hat tip to Federico Villalba.

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