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Do You Smell Something?

2017-04-04 elrichiboy City Council, Elections, The Arena Leave a comment

Remember that 2012 Quality of Life bond election? That Bond Proposal movement was a juggernaut. I think they had three

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What’s it for, anyway?

2017-04-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Politics, The Arena 9 comments

I still have some questions about that Multipurpose Performing Arts Center. Like where and when to build it. I know

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Jarabe de Palo at Tricky Falls Tonight

2017-04-03 elrichiboy Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Jarabe de Palo is a Spanish rock band, and they’re everything you’d think a Spanish rock band should be, unless

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Día de San Ricardo

2017-04-03 elrichiboy Art, Opportunity! Leave a comment

Today, April 3, is the Día de San Ricardo, the patron saint of truck drivers, according to ElTestigoFiel.org. Tradition dictates

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That Explains It.

2017-04-03 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

The El Paso Inc. this week unwrapped the study that HKS Inc. did for the City of El Paso to

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Sunday Matinee: Hooligan

2017-04-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a entertaining documentary about the English disease: hooliganism. It seems that in the seventies and eighties, a certain element

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The American Dream Index

2017-03-30 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s an article from Forbes that rates the 50 states according to the future and viability of their middle class.

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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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In Hell I’ll Be in Good Company

2017-03-29 elrichiboy Art, Music, Video One comment

Here’s a little musical respite from the band Dead South. Also, you can learn how to dance. You’re welcome.

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Downtown Update

2017-03-29 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

Here’s the latest lowdown on downtown, or DWNTWN as El Pasoans spell it on Wheel of Fortune, because we can’t

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Welcome to El Paso. Now Go Home.

2017-03-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Media, Slider 2 comments

El Paso is hot right now. There’s Kahlid. He’s some kind of a rock star. No doubt City Council is

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Then Let’s Build an Arena

2017-03-27 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

By all means. Here’s the El Paso Times inadvertently weighing in on the arena controversy. Now, with a baseball stadium

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Can’t we go back to the drawing board?

2017-03-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Here’s a breakdown of El Paso County’s population change for the year ending July 1, 2016, courtesy U.S. Census Bureau

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Sunday Matinee: Some Chinese Fantasy Movie

2017-03-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

This movie is like Ray Harryhausen’s Sinbad visits Wonder Woman. Or something. In Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese?), with English subtitles.

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Cartel de Sinaloa Documentary Chapter 3

2017-03-25 elrichiboy Mexico Leave a comment

In this final episode of Clandestino: El Cartel de Sinaloa, the documentarians take us up to and over the border

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Feliz Cumpleaños, Mary!

2017-03-24 elrichiboy Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

Mary, the bartender at the Buen Tiempo, is celebrating her birthday today. The Buen Tiempo is the oldest bar in

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Hasta la Vista, Baby

2017-03-24 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 4 comments

The latest population estimates from the Census Bureau are out. The good news is that our limited water resources are

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Tickets, Please

2017-03-23 elrichiboy City Council, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s something interesting you may have overlooked. According to this post by Brutus over there at ElPasoSpeak.com, those bonuses the

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There’s One Born Every Minute

2017-03-23 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Slider 9 comments

The El Paso Times reports today that the El Paso Electric Company is introducing a solar energy plan. El Paso

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Dangerous Naivete

2017-03-21 elrichiboy Politics 2 comments

El Chuqueño doesn’t endorse candidates. We’ve had our hearts broken too many times. But anyone who says they can build

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The People Speak!

  • John G. Dungan on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Emillio Benitez on City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
  • Gary Cobb on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Kent Paterson on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
  • Lawrence Feltham on City of Dust: Dunlap, New Mexico
  • walter white on Can’t We Just Wait?
  • John G. Dungan on Thank the Taxpayers
  • John G. Dungan on Can’t We Just Wait?
  • Dane Aguilar on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Denise M Schubbe on City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico

El Chuqueño Lately

  • Retrovision: The Problem With TIRZs
  • Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • “The Second Woman”
  • “Siberia: The Coldest Place on Earth”
  • Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa

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