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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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Winning the War on Drugs

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Under the mask of the war on drugs By Lars Schall “If you look at the drug war from a

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Roseanne Barr on Drugs

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The War on Drugs: Now, after all these years, it even sounds dumb and tiresome. Here we are on our

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What’s wrong with El Paso

2012-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I like El Paso. What about all those people saying it’s not good enough for them? (read more)

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Except for the shooting, the war is over.

2012-08-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“I’d go to Juarez,” the straw man said, “except for all the killing.” (read more)

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Does El Paso need downtown development?

2012-08-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

All across American, downtowns are in trouble. They’re dead, or dying. It’s epidemic. When happy motoring drew middle class Americans

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Eeewww

2012-08-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “While being booked last Thursday night at the Doña Ana

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When machetes attack

2012-08-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “Las Cruces Police detectives learned that Gower was at 810

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The People Speak!

  • 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?
  • Dane Aguilar on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Denise M Schubbe on City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico

El Chuqueño Lately

  • Retrovision: The Problem With TIRZs
  • Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • “The Second Woman”
  • “Siberia: The Coldest Place on Earth”
  • Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa

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