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Weather Forecast

2016-10-28 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

I remember when we had to bundle up for Trick or Treat. When sitting in the stands for high school

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Visit to the Blogosphere

2016-10-27 elrichiboy Meta Blog Leave a comment

Man, that blogosphere is a scary place. Lemme show you. Since we’ve visited him last, Max Powers has been raising

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Abdou Diary

2016-10-27 elrichiboy Art, Downtown, How to Live in El Paso, Slider One comment

by Hope Wright I’d like to tell you that I’ve puked in every bathroom in the Abdou Building. But that

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Happy Days are Here Again!

2016-10-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Good news, El Paso. All that economic development we’ve been planning for is starting to pay off. According to this

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Downtown Diary, the Last One: Part 2

2016-10-25 elrichiboy Art, Downtown Leave a comment

Jenni Burton had a weekly column in NewspaperTree from 2004 to 2007. Maybe longer. This month she moved out of

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WJUC Highlights Video

2016-10-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s are the freshest highlights of the finals of the World Junior (U 20) Ultimate Championship, in Poland. Fresh as

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El Paso Unified School District

2016-10-25 elrichiboy School Districts, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

The El Paso Independent School District is pushing their “innovation” as an enticement to support their upcoming $669 million bond

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Public Office? We shouldn’t even let them use public restrooms.

2016-10-25 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Last week City Council voted to kick poor people out of their homes so rich people could watch basketball from

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Downtown Diary: The Last One

2016-10-24 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso One comment

Jenni Burton had a weekly column in NewspaperTree from 2004 to 2007. Maybe longer. This month she moved out of

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Not on fire, just smoldering

2016-10-24 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

In an ongoing effort to “inform” the voters, someone posting on Facebook as EPISD Board Member Susie Byrd claimed that,

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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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Don’t Buy Your Season Tickets Just Yet

2016-10-22 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 4 comments

Our City Council on Tuesday past voted unanimously to approve the site of the downtown arena, even if it required

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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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Jorge Talks

2016-10-21 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

In an interview with El Universal, Jorge, a purported chief in La Linea, the armed wing of the Juarez Cartel,

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Proper Printshop’s Art en Vivo: Chris Trian

2016-10-20 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s what Proper Printshop’s Facebook page says about Art en Vivo: Art en Vivo is a live screen printing project

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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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Contrabandistas

2016-10-19 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Here’s the latest news from the El Paso Times, dateline June 16, 1924: With only three shells, Threepersons grabbed Jara,

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Common Wisdom

2016-10-19 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

This is a partial text of a public comment made by Steve Strumer to El Paso City Council on 18

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Champions League

2016-10-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Are you one of those poor slobs who needs an excuse to day drink? Your salvation is at hand. Today

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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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