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Hide The Pickle

2019-02-19 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider 5 comments

The City is up to something. They’re redoing their website. Here’s what it looks like this morning: Look at that

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Mom and Dad Are Fighting

2019-02-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

You probably saw this op-ed in the Times, where former mayor John Cook and ex-City Manager Joyce Wilson defend their

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Lessons in Horse Trading

2019-02-14 elrichiboy City Management, Downtown, Slider 5 comments

If you’re selling a blind horse, the first thing you tell the mark prospective buyer is how good that horse

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Pity the Rich

2019-02-13 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Those poor little rich folk. They can’t go to dive bars, or downtown Juarez. They’ll never know the joys of

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Sunday Matinee: Harsh Times

2019-02-10 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Christian Bale is America’s greatest living actor. And here he is playing a semi-psychotic ex-soldier trying to find a job

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KVIA’s Special Report on QOL Cost Overruns

2019-02-08 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

KVIA delivered a Special Report last night on the Quality of Life bond projects cost overruns. It’s entertaining. Just spitballing,

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Sunday Matinee: The Assassin

2019-02-03 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 2 comments

This movie from Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien is gorgeous. You might be tempted to write it off as some Chinese

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El Paso’s Secret City Government

2019-02-01 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider 8 comments

Here’s something that should concern every El Pasoan. On Monday, El Paso’s City Council is having a Special Meeting. After

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John Stossel on Stadiums

2019-01-30 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

On the occasion of Super Bowl LIII, John Stossel reminds us. Watch this video on YouTube Fortunately, we’re smarter than

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The City of El Paso Is Poorly Managed

2019-01-28 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider One comment

I’ve said it before: The City of El Paso is poorly managed, and they can’t stop messing up. From an

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Sunday Matinee: Swelter

2019-01-27 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a movie about bad guys and bad guys trying to be good. We’ve all been there, right? With a

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OPM

2019-01-25 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Ethics, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

It’s hard to believe that any of the arena backers would be so enthusiastic if they were investing their own

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Where Locals Drink

2019-01-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Coconuts!? Coconuts, that little seven o’clock bar in Five Points, cracked the top ten in the El Paso Inc.’s list

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What Is That Word?

2019-01-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Ethics, Slider One comment

noun plural noun: ethics; noun: ethics 1. moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity.

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Sunday Matinee: Get Shorty

2019-01-20 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 2 comments

You remember Get Shorty. Sort of. Do you remember that Tony Soprano was in it? And Gene Hackman, Rene Russo,

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They Can’t Stop Lying

2019-01-19 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider One comment

Here’s Vic Kolenc (I thought he took the early retirement option?) reporting on the Great Wolf Swindle in the El

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On Roads and Debt

2019-01-17 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes One comment

Here’s a piece from StrongTowns.org about how to deal with deteriorating roads and increasing municipal debt. The story is from

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The Future of the El Paso Times

2019-01-15 elrichiboy Media, Slider One comment

From Bloomberg: MNG Enterprises Inc., the owner of the Boston Herald and Denver Post that’s backed by hedge fund Alden

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About the Wall

2019-01-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, Law Enforcement, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

From the El Paso Times: AUSTIN — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday told President Donald Trump that the

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City Saves $2.3 Million

2019-01-09 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena One comment

By spending $161.3 million. From KVIA: El Paso City Council Tuesday authorized the City to borrow $161.3 million for street,

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