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Coincidence?

2014-05-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Is sidelining City Manager Joyce Wilson related to the Open Records request now percolating through the Texas Court of Appeals?

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The Sixty-Four Dollar Question

2014-05-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development One comment

This week’s Question and Answer session in the El Paso Inc. is an interview with Patrick Schaefer, Executive Director of

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Devitalizing Downtown

2014-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

Remember when Billy Abraham was the bad guy? He didn’t maintain all his downtown properties. “Demolition by neglect,” the pundits

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Secrets of Horse Trading

2014-05-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Where I went to college, I had to take a class in horse trading. And one of the lessons was

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El Paso: It’s Almost Good

2014-05-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in the El Paso Times, City Council will ask Joyce Wilson to stand out of the

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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

2014-05-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics, Uncategorized 4 comments

Well, just like I predicted, the El Paso City Council has offered the job of City Manager to former Irving,

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Spring in El Paso

2014-05-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The wind chuffs at a respectably constant 20+ miles per hour, with occasional gusts of forty or fifty or sixty.

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Best Friends Forever

2014-05-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

I don’t want to queer the deal by pointing it out, but El Paso finally has an effective voice in

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The Die is Cast

2014-05-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

You have, by now, no doubt, seen the list of candidates for El Paso’s next City Manager. I’m opining that

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The Mennonite Connection

2014-04-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a piece about Mennonites smuggling cocaine into Canada: Jacob Fehr was sentenced last week to seven years in prison

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At least they’re not peeing on the Alamo

2014-04-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

He probably thought it was just any old historic mission: A judge ordered a 23-year-old El Paso man to spend

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Is it trickle down economics if someone’s peeing on your leg?

2014-04-15 elrichiboy Economic Development Leave a comment

More good news for the people who are responsible for El Paso’s economic development, the Borderplex Alliance. Business is booming

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How About El Paso?

2014-04-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

All you chile-heads have probably been following this story about Sriracha’s fight with the city of Irwindale, California. For those

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300 MPG Volkswagen Not Available in the USA

2014-04-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story that maintains that Americans are being denied the opportunity to buy cars with fuel-efficient technology because oil

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It’s a Good Day

2014-03-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Your life just got way better and you didn’t even know it. Here’s a story in which a World Bank

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Tarnished Brands: The Abuse of Trust

2014-03-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Maybe you saw this piece about the 120 most trusted brands in America. Brand management is serious business, and it

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We’re not in Kansas

2014-03-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from KSHB in Kansas City, explaining how police obtained a search warrant for a home which resulted

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Murder at Yankee’s Bar

2014-03-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story in LaPolaka, a man was killed in Yankee’s Bar this weekend after getting into an argument

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They mean well, I think.

2014-03-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I don’t hate El Paso. I’m not against downtown development. What I hate are people who pretend that they know

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Leeser is kind of like Obama

2014-03-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

Lots of the people who voted for Oscar Leeser, expecting Hope and Change, must be kind of disappointed that he’s

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