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Retrovision: Dee Margo’s Task Force

2020-11-14 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider One comment

This post originally appeared on 23 April 2020. Good news, everybody. Sure, people are dying, and the economy’s in the

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Saturday Documentary: Secrets of the Tribe

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Words and Their Meanings

2020-11-13 elrichiboy City Management, Coronavirus, Karla Nieman, Liar Liar, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

El Paso City Attorney Karla Nieman had a birthday party for her daughter, in apparent contravention of the order against

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Friday Short: Among Us

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Based on the online role playing game.

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Daddy and Daddy Are Fighting

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Mayor Dee Margo and County Judge Ricardo Samaniego are battling it out over local government’s response to El Paso’s soaring

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Where’s Susie?

2020-11-12 elrichiboy Slider, The "Progressives" 7 comments

From this week’s El Paso Inc.: The woman who has led El Paso’s PBS TV station for six years has

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Sleaford Mods: Second

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What Is CooL?

2020-11-12 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 3 comments

For marketers, cool is the holy grail. Mostly, marketers find cool after it’s been discovered and try to monetize it,

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Manu Chao: Clandestino

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A Failure of Government

2020-11-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

Pizza king J. Kirk Robison penned a Letter to the Editor in Sunday’s Sun Shopper El Paso Times. It is

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Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats: S.O.B

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Sunday Matinee: Raw Deal

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Saturday Documentary: A Bloody Week in Ciudad Juarez: A cartel killer tells All

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Friday Short: The Replacement

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The Offspring: Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)

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Is Mayor Margo Holding Walking Quorums?

2020-11-03 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Joyce Wilson, Slider One comment

Former city staffer and current District 2 candidate Judy Gutierrez had some revealing things to say in this story in

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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: Why Me?

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El Paso, Covid Crossroads

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True story.* We were driving back from Big Bend, and everyone else in the car was asleep. So I decided

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Steinbeck Says

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“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ’cause he feels

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Sunday Matinee: Swing!

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El Chuqueño Lately

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