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Brand El Paso, Again

2016-09-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 3 comments

If we want El Paso to gain any ground in the public’s perception, we all have to be pulling in

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Millenial Wha?

2016-09-26 elrichiboy Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Alert reader Alberto tipped me off to this illuminating story in The Architects Newspaper which references San Jacinto Plaza: One

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Take me back to Tulsa. Please.

2016-09-25 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

In Tulsa, if a cop shoots an unarmed man, the cop gets charged. In El Paso, if a cop shoots

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Welcome to the Middle Class

2016-09-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m talking about you. Everybody thinks they’re middle class, from Bloomberg News: Distilled interpretations of life in America. Check it

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Law and Order: Chucotown

2016-09-23 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

El Paso Times Editor Bob Moore alerted us, via Facebook, to the arbitrator’s ruling on the decision to reinstate Officer

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Where are the buskers?

2016-09-23 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development, How to Live in El Paso 14 comments

With all the struggling musicians in El Paso, I have to wonder why I don’t see more buskers. Last week

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Paul Theroux Writes the Border

2016-09-23 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

Here’s a story in the Smithsonian Magazine by literary giant Paul Theroux about the U.S.-Mexico border, with a guest appearance

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Serving the Community

2016-09-22 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider 2 comments

Some of you expressed great concern over the financial health of the Kentucky Club after the taxman closed it earlier

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Proper Print Shop’s Art en Vivo 22.09.16

2016-09-22 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Hoy es jueves, as we used to say in seventh grade Spanish, and that means that Proper Print Shop is

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It’s Open Season on Handcuffed Prisoners

2016-09-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement 3 comments

None of you have forgotten the horrific “accidental death” of handcuffed prisoner Daniel Saenz when he was shot by El

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reopening day at the kentucky

Okay. Exhale.

2016-09-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Last night I had a horrible dream. I dreamt that the taxman had closed the Kentucky Club, and Donald Trump

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Say it ain’t so!

2016-09-20 elrichiboy Juarez 2 comments

La Polaka reports that the tax man has closed the Kentucky Club because they owe taxes! Woe is me! The

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The Long Way Home

2016-09-20 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

Brutus over at ElPasoSpeak.com posted some illuminating information yesterday. A developer intends to build a high rise hotel on land

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$668 Million, and For What?

2016-09-19 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes 2 comments

I know many of us are curious about what, exactly, the El Paso Independent School District would do with $668

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Election 2016

2016-09-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments
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Entre Otros

2016-09-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

The tirilones aren’t the only guys in Juarez who dress for effect.

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Tin Tan Vive

2016-09-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Tirilones rock zoot suits on the dieciseis pedestrian mall on Sunday.

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Fiesta Juarez

2016-09-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Friday night I went to the Fiesta Juarez. Through some monumental clerical error I got into the VIP area. I

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Sunday Matinee: Sword of the Beast

2016-09-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This is a great Western. It’s so far west, it’s set in Japan. A solitary wandering gun (sword) man, chased

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This Just In: It’s Not All Good

2016-09-17 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Media, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

In an uncharacteristic manifestation of candor, the El Paso Times today ran a story on property taxes. Let me say

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The People Speak!

  • 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
  • Denise M Schubbe on City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico
  • Jane Yee on The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises
  • Denise M Schubbe on City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico
  • elrichiboy on The King of Mesa Street: The Life and Death of a Border Bluesman, Part 1
  • Angela Mollyhorn on The King of Mesa Street: The Life and Death of a Border Bluesman, Part 1
  • John G. Dungan on Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

El Chuqueño Lately

  • Thank the Taxpayers
  • Can’t We Just Wait?
  • “The Sniper”
  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”
  • “Deadfall”

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