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Can Juarez survive its extreme makeover?

2012-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Calle de la Paz is seven blocks long, two blocks south of Dieciseis de Septiembre in downtown Juarez. It’s western

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Breaking the Taboo

2012-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a good video about drug prohibition, narrated by Morgan Freeman.

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Street robots

2012-12-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For hours every day, the fake-brick sidewalk throbs with a pulse of humanity engaged in the willful act of living.

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Brand Tribalism in El Paso

2012-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In El Paso, we’re big on brands. We want to belong. We want to feel like we’re a member of

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The Class Cold War

2012-11-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“The important thing to understand now is that while the election is over, the class war isn’t. The same people

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Meanwhile, back at the lovely StageCoach Motel

2012-11-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This article in El Diario says a couple of fugitive sex offenders were arrested at the Stage Coach Motel on

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The voters have spoken.

2012-11-26 elrichiboy Economic Development Leave a comment

The City of El Paso will take on close to billion dollars in new debt over the next fifteen years,

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The Irony of Irony

2012-11-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“If irony is the ethos of our age — and it is — then the hipster is our archetype of

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Oops. Looks like I got it wrong again.

2012-10-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Option #1 Upon further review, it seems that the City’s Ordinance 017850 authorized the election about the ballpark based on

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The State Law Regarding Public Private Projects

2012-10-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

To tell you the truth, I am getting issue fatigue deciphering all the lies and half-truths that are being promulgated

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The State Law Regarding New Sports Venues

2012-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I spent the afternoon reading the Local Government Code, Title 10, Subtitle C, Chapter 334, “Sports and Community Venues.” It’s

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Baseball is dead

2012-10-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Americans are also losing interest in what was long called the national pastime. Baseball has steadily declined in favor, with

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Lank is At Large and Dangerous

2012-10-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

And so it was that when Claire’s company arrived at four that I was sloshingly hebetated, into the home stretch

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The Golden Life

2012-10-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There’s nothing wrong with the rosy future the ballpark proponents have advanced. The ballpark hasn’t been mired in the inescapable

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Government Serving the Oligarchs

2012-10-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times Letter of the Day for October 1, 2012 The surreptitious way in which this baseball stadium/relocated

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Playing ball

2012-09-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story from El Diario, the City of El Paso has a professional real estate agent/consultant on salary

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Monorail!

2012-09-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

http://youtu.be/AEZjzsnPhnw

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$20 million?

2012-09-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did MountainStar Sports really pay $20 million for the Tucson Padres? According to this story from Forbes magazine, in 2008

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The future of El Paso

2012-09-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Our benevolent overlords the Illuminati Paso del Norte Group have posted on their website their vision for the future of

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At Large in Europe by Lank Dresser

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s day eight of a ten-day tour. I just woke up in a renovated suite in a castle in County

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