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Do You Trust City Government?

2019-09-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

I lifted this from the City’s website: The proposed 2019 Public Safety Bond is the City’s plan to use voter approved bonds

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Change is Hard

2019-09-18 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Economic Development, Education, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Uncategorized 9 comments

About ten years ago, the people who really run things in El Paso decided that the city needed public amenities

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A Chance for a Do-Over

2019-09-16 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Ethics, Great Wolf Resorts, Henry Rivera, Opportunity!, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

And how often in life do you get a Mulligan? This was in this week’s El Paso Inc. It looks

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Lil Nas X “Old Town Road”

2019-09-12 elrichiboy Art, Music, Slider, Video One comment

From the Wall Street Journal: Just this year, “Old Town Road,” the hip-hop-flavored internet hit by Lil Nas X, made

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Did the Mayor of El Paso Fire the Editor of the City’s Daily?

2019-09-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

It sure looks like it. On September 17, 2017, this editorial appeared in the print edition of the El Paso

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Tweedle Eedle Eet

2019-09-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

Bob Moore’s ElPasoMatters twitter feed features the kind of feel good stories we love here at El Chuqueño. Here’s the

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Nothing to See Here

2019-09-09 elrichiboy Politics, Slider Leave a comment

Lookie here. This advert in the El Paso Inc. says that State Representative Joe Moody is the new General Counsel

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Sunday Matinee: Mafia

2019-09-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a seventies blaxploitation movie that was made in 2012. Starring Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, and the melting Terminator guy.

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The 3.5% Solution

2019-09-05 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Henry Rivera, Quality of Life Projects, Sam Morgan, Slider, The Arena, Water Parks 2 comments

You’ve probably heard that the Texas Legislature reduced the rollback rate to 3.5%. Here’s the skinny from the Texas Tribune.

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“I Was Hacked!”

2019-09-03 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider 9 comments

I guess District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez hasn’t been keeping up with current events. “I was hacked” seems to work

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Sunday Matinee: Dawn Rider

2019-09-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 2012 Western starring that guy from Mr. Robot and Donald Sutherland. Christian Slater. Yeah, Christian Slater. Check it

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Whose Economic Development Do You Think They’re Worried About?

2019-09-01 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

According the City’s FY2019 Budget, El Paso was poised to spend $19,814,987 on Economic Development in the 2019 Fiscal Year.

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Six Feet High and Rising

2019-08-30 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Well, lookie here. The dead tree edition of the El Paso Times reports that our County’s Hospital District is raising

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Retrovision: Make El Paso Great Again

2019-08-30 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Education, Retrovision, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 2017 March 30. Lemme tell you how to get us out of that hole that

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Mayor Margo’s Press Conference

2019-08-29 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Last week City Manager Tommy Gonzalez gave an interview to CBS4Local. Judging by the page hits and comments, y’all enjoyed

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The Legendary Barry Martin

2019-08-28 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso, Music, Slider, Your Health 6 comments

If you live in El Paso and you don’t know who Barry Martin is, you don’t own a guitar, and

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Bar Wars

2019-08-27 elrichiboy City Council, Law Enforcement, Politics, Slider 5 comments

I went to City Council last week to watch the Veto Theater. Chambers was packed with bar owners and employees

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Why You’re Fat

2019-08-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider, Your Health One comment

The Atlantic weighs in on some surprising reasons why it was easier to be skinny in the 80s than it

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Jobs Report

2019-08-22 elrichiboy Breaking News, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

Bob Moore reports, via his El Paso Matters twitter feed, that the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that things in

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Political Theater

2019-08-21 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Henry Rivera, Politics, Sam Morgan, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Yesterday City Council overrode Mayor Margo’s veto, allowing the city to raise tax rates for the third year in a

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