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We Could Have Had City-Wide High-Speed Internet Instead

2020-08-05 elrichiboy ballpark, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 3 comments

You know I’ve been saying that the real cost of all those vanity projects for the leisure class is what

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Getting What You Pay for?

2020-08-03 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

Here’s an article in Forbes titled Why Texas Is In Trouble—78,064 Public Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks Cost Taxpayers $12 Billion:

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Sunday Matinee: Scandal Sheet

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El Paso’s Climate Refugees

2020-07-31 elrichiboy Climate Change, Economic Development, Migration, Slider 8 comments

Here’s a long read from ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine: Conjoined to the Mexican city of Juárez, the

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Mexico 1939

2020-07-29 elrichiboy Mexico, Video Leave a comment
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Agents Provocateur

2020-07-28 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Slider 2 comments

Agents provocateur are a standard element of the anarchist playbook. They’ll get in with some peaceful protestors, and then break

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It’s the Water

2020-07-28 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider, Your Health Leave a comment

Alert reader Mr. Natural tipped me to this article from NewAtlas.com: A new systematic review of more than a dozen

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Amazon is Coming

2020-07-26 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider 3 comments

From the El Paso Times: Amazon, the giant online retailer, plans to open one of its distribution centers in El Paso, company

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Sunday Matinee: Dear Murderer

2020-07-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America

2020-07-20 elrichiboy Law Enforcement 10 comments

From the aforementioned document: First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free

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CJNG on Display

2020-07-18 elrichiboy Mexico, Slider 2 comments

This is, purportedly, the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, displaying their firepower in Mexico. Here they are in the town of

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What Are Your Neighbors Up To?

2020-07-17 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, News, Slider 10 comments

Did you see this story in the news? From OPB.org: In the early hours of July 15, after a night

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AMF

2020-07-17 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, population, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Good news, everybody. According to recently released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, between July 2018 and July 2019, the

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The Winds of Change?

2020-07-16 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Elections, Politics, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

The primary elections are over. Incumbent Vince Perez lost his Precinct 3 County Commissioners seat. And James Montoya, veteran District

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Rattlesnake Milk: Dave Dudley

2020-07-14 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Sunday Matinee: Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street

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Why Our Taxes are High and Our Streets are Bad

2020-07-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

You could write it off to the City’s excessive spending. And you’d be right. The City is drunk on spending

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Friday Short: Dust

2020-07-10 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Coke Dealing in Juarez

2020-07-09 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider, Video Leave a comment

With El Paso in a supporting role. This documentary originally aired in September, 2019.

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The Fiscal Ship is Sinking

2020-07-06 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Here’s a news flash from the El Paso Inc.: El Paso leads major Texas cities in debt not approved by

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