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Salud!

2017-07-13 elrichiboy Mexico Leave a comment

I’m standing at the bar in a 97-year-old cantina in Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico. The whole bar is about fifteen feet

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TopGolf Will Save Us

2017-07-12 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Taxes, The Arena 4 comments

I’ve got a math problem for you. Don’t worry, we’re not giving grades, and we’re not asking for real numbers

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Read My Lips

2017-07-11 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects 3 comments

Did you vote for Dee Margo because he promised to “hold the line on taxes”? Psych! KVIA reports that our

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Three Years and Fifty Weeks To Go

2017-07-10 elrichiboy City Council, Politics 7 comments

You’ve probably heard that El Paso’s latest mayor doesn’t want to hear from the proles. Via the El Paso Times:

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Duh.

2017-07-09 elrichiboy National Policy, Slider, World News 3 comments

Here’s the latest awareness from Homeland Security, via KVIA: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Friday that he told

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Mexico’s Low Cost Airline

2017-07-08 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, World 2 comments

Lookie here. According to their website, a one-way ticket from Ciudad Juarez to Leon, Guanajuato, non-stop, booked more than a

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Eat At Monarch

2017-07-07 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Monarch has a food truck. Sorta. It would be a trailer if it had wheels. And if Clint had a

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Greetings From Guanajuato

2017-07-07 elrichiboy World One comment

Here I am in Guanajuato, the capital of the state of Guanajuato. Guanajuato is about in the middle of Mexico,

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The Landlord Class

2017-07-05 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

Lookie here. We’ve got a problem. Say you want to open a business in El Paso. Maybe it’s a bar,

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Home Appraisals Steady, Apartment Appraisals Up

2017-07-03 elrichiboy Economic Development 6 comments

Here’s a story from the June 25 issue of the El Paso Inc.: Preliminary valuations of single-family homes by the

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Monday Funday

2017-07-03 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 3 comments

Personally I have a hard time telling the days apart. They’re all work days. So I don’t dread Mondays. I

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Was That the Sound of Distant Thunder?

2017-06-29 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Some of my readers seem to think that the arena is a done deal, like an avalanche or a tsunami

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El Paso’s Finest

2017-06-28 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Slider 8 comments

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times this past weekend? On June 23, 2015, Maria Ramirez called

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They Don’t Know How to Politick

2017-06-28 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Quality of Life Projects, Slider One comment

Remember Lance Armstrong? He was the greatest bicycle racer that ever lived until they started testing his old blood samples.

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Number 3 On Another List

2017-06-26 elrichiboy It's All Good, Quality of Life Projects, Slider One comment

Here’s some disconcerting news. El Paso has the third highest rate of HIV infection among men who have sex with

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How Did We Get Here?

2017-06-24 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

I reckon the City figgered that no one would stand up to them. That no one had the resources to

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“What Happened to Texas Music?”

2017-06-23 elrichiboy Art, Music Leave a comment

I saw it happening but I didn’t know what it was. From Fort Worth Weekly: A New York guy killed

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Mexico’s Pot Initiative

2017-06-23 elrichiboy Mexico, World News Leave a comment

Did you read that Mexico has made medical marijuana legal? Here it is in the Washington Post: Mexican President Enrique

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Putin Explains El Paso

2017-06-23 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Oliver Stone interviewed Vladimir Putin. Here’s a takeaway from Vox.com: Should Sanders become president, Putin says, he would suddenly realize

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“CITY PREPARING FOR MASS DEMOLITION OF DURANGUITO” – Max Grossman

2017-06-22 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, The Arena Leave a comment

Dear Friends, I have attached three photos of the Flor de Luna building, the first from now and the other

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