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About That Gran Logia del Lobo

2020-03-26 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Joel and Dr. Sam “She just wouldn’t shut up” Morgan think that people from Juarez and Chihuahua City will support

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Israel is Snooping on Israeli Cellphones

2020-03-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

From the Guardian: Israel’s government has approved emergency measures to track people suspected or confirmed to have been infected with

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Sam Morgan is Full of Shit

2020-03-23 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

God Bless Him. At last Tuesday’s City Council meeting, Dr. Sam “She Just Wouldn’t Shut Up” Morgan claimed that the

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Sunday Matinee: Clark Gable and Loretta Young in the Call of the Wild

2020-03-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment
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The Great Ongoing Land Swindle

2020-03-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Way back on 30 July 2014, in a post titled Can El Paso Go Bankrupt?, I wrote: I mean, we’re

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The Fat Men’s Club

2020-03-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Here’s a story from Texas Monthly: “Reckhart is Fasting” read the headline of a 1902 El Paso Daily Times. Reckhart, apparently,

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Conflict of Interest?

2020-03-17 elrichiboy El Paso Electric Company, Media, Slider One comment

Yesterday I reported on an article I found on Page 8A of the El Paso Times. The article said that

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The Alternate Realities of Living in El Paso

2020-03-17 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

The people running El Paso are delusional. They’re drunk. Drunk on power and ego. They latched onto this idea that

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Bernie Sanders on the EPEC Sale

2020-03-16 elrichiboy El Paso Electric Company, Media, Slider One comment

There’s a story in today’s El Paso Times: Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and two other United States senators want two

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Sunday Matinee: Stalker

2020-03-15 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Bertrand Russell on Local Politics

2020-03-10 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, Taxes One comment

Sometimes, when me and my friends are passing around the plastic flask of Old Forrester, the conversation turns to the

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Friday Short: Hail Mary Country

2020-03-06 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Friday Short: Terminal

2020-03-06 elrichiboy Friday Short, Sci Fi Leave a comment
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Radio La Chusma: Big Money

2020-03-02 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Is a Gated Community a Public Good?

2020-03-02 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 8 comments

Will it benefit you? Tomorrow, City Council will consider amending the parameters of Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone 13, that TIRZ

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Sunday Matinee: Never Let Go with Peter Sellers

2020-03-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Friday Short: Outpost

2020-02-28 elrichiboy Friday Short, Uncategorized Leave a comment
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How America Killed Mass Transit

2020-02-27 elrichiboy Public Transportation, Slider, Trolley, Urban Planning 2 comments

From CityLab.com: One hundred years ago, the United States had a public transportation system that was the envy of the

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DakhaBrakha: Divka Marusechka

2020-02-26 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Fake News: “El Paso Has the Second Highest Homestead Tax Rate in the U.S.”

2020-02-25 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

A lot of people have been saying that El Paso has the second highest homestead tax rate in the country,

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