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Make El Paso Great Again

2016-10-03 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development, How to Live in El Paso 7 comments

What do we want from El Paso? If you say industry to alleviate the homeowners’ tax burden, I’m not buying

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Meta Blog: What the other blogs are saying

2016-09-30 elrichiboy City Council, Meta Blog, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

You may have noticed that the City settled with Basic IDIQ this week on the San Jacinto Plaza project. DavidK

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Ya Basta!

2016-09-30 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes 3 comments

Those people advocating for the El Paso Independent School District bond proposal gotta understand. Enough. We’ve got the same people

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Vulgar Talk

2016-09-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez One comment

I know it’s vulgar to talk about money. Unless it’s for the children. And I hate to talk about how

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The Very Best That Other People’s Money Can Buy

2016-09-28 elrichiboy School Districts, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

The El Paso Times reports that three area lawmakers are throwing their support behind the El Paso Independent School District’s

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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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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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The People Speak!

  • Jessamyn C Young on Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One
  • John G. Dungan on Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?
  • David Dunaway on We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice
  • Richard Moore on We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice
  • LOUIS HEAD on Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond
  • F.A. Sommerfeld on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • JerryK on El Paso is Falling
  • elrichiboy on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • John G. Dungan on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • Richard Moore on People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

El Chuqueño Lately

  • “The New ‘Oumuamua? Everything We Know So Far About 3I/Atlas”
  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One
  • “Cry Vegeance”
  • “The Officer Who Threw the Punch Isn’t the Problem. The Man Who Approved It Is.”
  • Our Surveillance State

Stuff we talk about