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More on Mexico’s Garitas

2013-12-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexican President and GQ poster boy, says that closing the Aduana’s garitas is good for Juarez. It’s

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Thanksgiving Family Feud

2013-11-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Yesterday we had Thanksgiving at our house. All the relatives came. We were drinking, and then we started talking politics,

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No More Internal Migration Checks

2013-11-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in La Polaka, the Mexican government has decommissioned the customs checkpoints on highways from the border

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Thanks, America, by William Burroughs

2013-11-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the stuff that William Burroughs had to be thankful for, 1986. Pretty cynical, god bless him. I lifted this

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Where’s the Love?

2013-11-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This column by Nicholas Kristoff shines a light on it. He claims that rich people think they earned it, so

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Wikipedia and the Ballpark

2013-11-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Wikipedia has a post up about the ballpark. Unfortunately, the article is devoid of a lot of the real story

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100 Things

2013-11-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My friend Tony Testa posted this on Facebook. It’s never too late to learn.

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The Donkey and the Well: A Parable

2013-11-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

An old donkey fell in a well. The donkey was old, and the well was dry, so the farmer decided

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Paul Krugman’s New Normal

2013-11-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The problem, Mr. Krugman points out, riffing on Larry Summers’ speech to the IMF, is that we’re not all buying

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Worse Than ASCAP

2013-11-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in El Diario, people are killing vendors of pirated CD’s and DVD’s on Juarez streets. A

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Downtown Parking

2013-11-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Maybe you’ve negotiated the Times excruciating new website to read this story about a study for a new parking garage

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American Democracy Unmasked

2013-11-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Listen to this cynical (probably entirely correct) rant from former Fox News commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about the state of

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The Middle Class is Obsolete

2013-11-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this interesting article from Alternet, the decline in the middle class is of no concern to the wealthy,

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More on Dwntwn

2013-11-11 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development One comment

By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about the Downtown Management District shenanigans. To recap quickly,

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The End of the Interwebs

2013-11-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this opinion piece from Wired, we all better enjoy the internet while we can. The country’s second highest

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Dwntwn, Fast and Furious

2013-11-09 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

There’s an interesting story by David Crowder in today’s El Paso Inc. Here’s much of the story, as related in

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Deming Sued for Sodomizing Civilian

2013-11-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story about a police stop gone wrong. Very wrong. And they have duck races, too. [Update]: It

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Mr. Crazy Knows Best

2013-10-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I think Mr. Crazy said it best: I came to the conclusion that even though I’m gonna have to wear

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Times up and out

2013-10-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times parent corporation, citing the soft economy and increased on-line competition, layed off 19 people this week,

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The Moving Target

2013-10-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did anyone notice the cognitive dissonance in the noise coming out of the ballpark crowd? I am really trying to

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The People Speak!

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  • 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
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  • 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
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