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Juarez Walking Tour Reviews

2020-02-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez One comment

Most El Pasoans think Juarez begins and ends at the strip. If they go to Juarez, they get as far

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Wealth Inequality and Income Segregation

2020-02-05 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Downtown El Paso used to belong to all El Pasoans. Sure, there was poverty. But there were also places that

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The City Can’t Stop Lying

2020-02-04 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Here’s a Steve Jobs quote: A players hire A players, but B players hire C players and C players hire

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Hunt Builds Communities

2020-02-04 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

Really. That’s what they do. They got rich building housing for military families, all over the world. If you believe

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Sunday Matinee: Algiers

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Time to Pay Your Property Taxes Again

2020-01-29 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

It’s that time again. Your property taxes are due without penalty by January 31. The riches are shuffling and refinancing

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Balming Tiger: Armadillo

2020-01-29 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Sunday Matinee: Intruder in the Dust

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Friday Short: How NOT to Get a Divorce from Your Wife from Alfred Hitchcock Presents

2020-01-24 elrichiboy Friday Short, Video Leave a comment
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Does She Have a Problem With Math, or the Truth?

2020-01-23 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Jessica Herrera, Liar Liar, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

I came across this press release from the City from back when iFly announced their move into Monticello. The City’s

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A Big Win for the Borderplex Alliance

2020-01-23 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

From the El Paso Times: Big Tuna USA, a company with a unique niche in the North American pipe industry,

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“‘Life is a Fight’: Scenes from a Migrant Tent Camp in Juárez”

2020-01-22 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider 4 comments

Here’s a great piece by local freelance photo-journalist Henry Carver about the recently destroyed migrant tent camps in Ciudad Juarez.

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Wealth Inequality is Driving El Paso’s Housing Bubble

2020-01-22 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

El Paso house prices are rising, abetted, perhaps, by the Central Appraisal District’s increase in valuations. But is the tail

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Greedy Kilowatt

2020-01-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, El Paso Electric Company, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

I’m not in favor of selling El Paso Electric to J.P. Morgan. I’ve seen enough movies to know that you’re

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Sunday Matinee Double Feature: The King of Texas

2020-01-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Sunday Matinee: Made

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City of El Paso overcharges Property Owners $5.3 Million

2020-01-17 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Good news, everybody. From KTSM.com: El Paso City Council received an update on its financial report for 2019 Tuesday, which

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Bookie Baker: Autumn Wind

2020-01-17 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Sunday Matinee: Shield for Murder

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Friday Short: Painkiller

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The People Speak!

  • Ben on Shopping South El Paso Street
  • LaWanda Faulks on City of Dust: Causey, New Mexico
  • Eva Mendez on The Sunland Park-Santa Teresa Chronicles: Cannabis, CRRUA and Capitalism
  • Eva Mendez on The Sunland Park-Santa Teresa Chronicles: Cannabis, CRRUA and Capitalism
  • elrichiboy on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Jerry K on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Richard Roman on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Carmen Rodriguez on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Cynthia J Gomez on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
  • John G. Dungan on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs

El Chuqueño Lately

  • “That one night in jail at El Paso was tough.” | The Man in Black’s El Paso Drug Bust
  • “This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”
  • Shopping South El Paso Street
  • “Fire Maidens from Outer Space”
  • “White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”

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