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Promoting Downtown El Paso

2013-10-23 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Promoting higher population densities in the urban core is a good thing. Higher population densities, and better public transportation, yield

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Deadspin on Chihuahuas

2013-10-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Two-word team names are minor league baseball’s bread and butter, and while the Desert Gators and Sun Dogs sound like

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Brand El Paso (fixed)

2013-10-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized 9 comments

Mithoff Burton Partners (“where creativity goes to die,” as one commenter put it) were given $300,000 by the City of

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In Defense of the Ballpark

2013-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a video from El Paso Triple A Baseball (I guess) helping you to understand the noble goals MountainStar Sports

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Ortega’s Gambit

2013-10-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

You’ve read that Steve Ortega has moved to quash his deposition, and the attempt to sift his emails relating to

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Alejandro Escovedo at Tricky Falls

2013-10-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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City Slogans

2013-10-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s an article from the Atlantic on new city slogans for 2011. Even the worst is better than It’s All

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Some Thoughts on the Royal Succession

2013-10-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There’s been a lot of chatter about Joyce Wilson’s resignation announcement this week. Here’s how I read it. With Ms.

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Documenting San Antonio’s Barrio Gang History

2013-10-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

At a time when train tracks separate much of the West Side from downtown, when many of the streets were

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Conundrum El Paso

2013-10-09 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Plan El Paso is the City’s general blueprint for “the built environment.” The Plan adopts the principles of New Urbanism,

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Rich People Just Care Less

2013-10-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Turning a blind eye. Giving someone the cold shoulder. Looking down on people. Seeing right through them. These metaphors for

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Love and Poison

2013-10-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My wife really loves me.  Even though we fight a lot, yesterday I was feeling a little hungover, and she

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Am I drunk again, or am I still drunk?

2013-09-25 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Let’s dredge up a quote from Saturday’s story in El Paso’s English language daily: MountainStar said it wants to have

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What the $10 million announcement really meant

2013-09-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m just speculating here.  But I think the truth lies behind this statement, as quoted from the El Paso Times:

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Monday Morning’s Quarterback

2013-09-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

It’s easy to get mad when the ballpark costs leap another ten million dollars.  It’s easy to point fingers when

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The Gift That Keeps on Giving

2013-09-21 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Media, Politics 5 comments

Isn’t anyone from Mountain Star Sports Group interested in a little crisis management?  Don’t they realize that they’re hemorrhaging? Today

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Sales are Down

2013-09-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’ve been out of town for a couple nearly four months, and lately when I venture out in El Paso,

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More Email Drama

2013-09-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There’s this story in the El Paso Times about the City Attorney trying to quash a demand for depositions from

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A Solution in Search of a Problem

2013-09-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There’s an interesting story by David Crowder in this week’s El Paso Inc. It seems that the City proposed an

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Stop the bleeding

2013-09-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This morning the El Paso Times noticed that property taxes in El Paso are escalating at an undesirable rate.  Not

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The People Speak!

  • 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
  • John G. Dungan on Can’t We Just Wait?

El Chuqueño Lately

  • “Fire Maidens from Outer Space”
  • “White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”
  • Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact
  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”
  • “Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”

Stuff we talk about