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Sunday Matinee: Never Let Go with Peter Sellers

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Friday Short: Outpost

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How America Killed Mass Transit

2020-02-27 elrichiboy Slider, Public Transportation, 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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Paul Foster Likes the Arena

2020-02-25 elrichiboy The Arena, Brand El Paso, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

The El Paso Inc. ran a story about the restoration of the Plaza Hotel this weekend. That renovation was undertaken

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Sunday Matinee: Ingmar Bergman’s Persona

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Is the City’s Strategic Plan Working for You?

2020-02-21 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Economic Development, Jessica Herrera, Slider, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

In 2012, the City of El Paso began implementing a strategic plan to foster economic development in the area. According

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Campaign Finance Shenanigans

2020-02-20 elrichiboy Corruption, Elections, Ethics, Slider One comment

Those nice guys at The Forma Group lent almost $7,000 to their client Debbie Torres for her District 6 runoff

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Documentary: Collapse

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Inti Illimani: La Partida

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Relationship Advice for the City of El Paso

2020-02-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, Brand El Paso, Slider 4 comments

Dear City of El Paso, I get it. You’ve been dumped. Boeing left you for Huntsville, Alabama, and Huntsville doesn’t

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Sunday Matinee: John Ford’s My Darling Clementine

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Retrovision: Is El Paso City Government a Secret Public/Private Partnership?

2020-02-14 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 27 November 2017. I updated the chart to show the most recent available from the

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Friday Short: Le Boche

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Amigo the Devil: Hell and You

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City of El Paso #1 for Certificates of Obligation Debt in Texas

2020-02-12 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Woohoo! Yeah, the Miners suck, again, those poor dears. And people are running away from El Paso like it’s on

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The Rise and Fall of Jeffrey Epstein: The Story of How He Didn’t Kill Himself

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No Pro Sports in the Arena?

2020-02-11 elrichiboy The Arena, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

Didn’t you think that the proposed downtown arena was for professional sports? Wasn’t there a lot of talk about an

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Betty Boop: Riding the Rails

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The People Speak!

  • elrichiboy on “Guilty Bystander”
  • Rudy Gonzales on City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
  • elrichiboy on You Can Pay When You’re Dead
  • randy on City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
  • eghsdtbht on You Can Pay When You’re Dead
  • Andre on You Can Pay When You’re Dead
  • Paul Pino on The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers
  • Paul Pino on The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers
  • Lela Gayle Braswell Merz on City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico (Updated)
  • Laurel on City of Dust: Monticello, New Mexico

El Chuqueño Lately

  • “The Great Depression – America’s Biggest Economic Crisis”
  • “The Merry Gentlemen”
  • “The Siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC): How Archimedes Stopped Rome”
  • The Data Center Chronicles: The Battle of Jupiter Comes to Albuquerque
  • “Jigsaw”

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