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NASA: The World is Running Out of Water

2015-06-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

More good news on the potable water front, from NASA via the Washington Post. We’re using groundwater faster than we’re

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News from the 4th Estate

2015-06-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Have you noticed that since Gannett announced the takeover of the El Paso Times that the quality of their reporting

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Income Distribution and Economic Growth

2015-06-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Those Communists at the International Monetary Fund have decided that when people talk about trickle-down economics, they’re pissing on your

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My Big Idea

2015-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

I have a transformative branding concept for the City of El Paso. I mean it. It’s something we could all

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Big Ideas from the Borderplex Alliance, Bless Their Hearts

2015-06-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

I’ve been reading the Borderplex Alliance’s Regional Strategic Plan 2015-2020, which you can download here, if you’re feeling a little

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The Margarita Cabrera Sculpture Debacle Continues

2015-06-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Accomplished author and journalist Debbie Nathan has summoned some damning emails from the City of El Paso’s handling of artist

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El Paso Gets National Attention

2015-06-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story on news aggregator Newser.com, El Paso women can find abortions. A woman in El Paso would

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Oops.

2015-06-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

No, I really blew it. I mean I really, really, blew it. I went by Lucy’s Coffee Shop today they

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Who Wants to be Mayor?

2015-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I suspect the power elite is cautiously, surreptitiously, gently, sidling up to some of the ankle-biters and suggesting that they

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What’s Their Game?

2015-06-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

So City Council is all het up to build a 12,000 seat arena in downtown. What’s that all about? We’re

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Adios, amigo

2015-06-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Lucy’s Coffee Shop, that venerable institution that opened in 1974 in that old motor hotel near downtown, appears to have

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The Borderplex Alliance’s New Strategic Plan: A Critique

2015-06-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars. — Steve Martin Did you read this story in

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Big News from Wazoo

2015-06-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did you read the big news out of Juarez last week? No, not the futbol team. (I thought Juarez already

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City (Not El Paso) Raises Taxes to Pay Legal Settlement for Police Misconduct

2015-06-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

In a case that may portend what’s in store for El Pasoans, the city of Inkster, Michigan, will hit taxpayers

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More on the New State Law on Public Corruption

2015-06-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times reports that the State Legislature passed that bill giving the Texas Rangers the authority to investigate

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The El Paso Times Urges Fiscal Responsibility!

2015-06-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times Sunday published an editorial calling for a more sensible approach to civic finance. Over the past

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Yeah, that will really work.

2015-05-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a story from Marty Schladen, writing in the El Paso Times: The director of the Texas Department of Public

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El Paso: Not like the Movies

2015-05-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

“Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable”. E.K. Hornbeck (Gene

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Where you stand and where you sit

2015-05-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I went to a birthday party for the daughter of a friend of mine last week. I started talking to

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How To Live in El Paso: Valentina Hot Sauce

2015-05-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Am I right? I mean, it’s not the same as that special salsa you make, with the grilled and raw

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The People Speak!

  • Richard Roman on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Carmen Rodriguez on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Cynthia J Gomez on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
  • 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

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  • “White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”
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  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”

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