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Common Sense

2019-05-10 elrichiboy Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Here’s an ad from Britain’s Labour Party which has some relevance for our local tax policies. But you know what

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Are the Wheels Coming Off?

2019-05-09 elrichiboy Breaking News, Downtown, Slider 6 comments

This just in, from the El Paso Inc. Borderplex Realty Trust, the company created by businessman William Sanders that owns

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Los Gallos Negros

2019-05-07 elrichiboy Politics 16 comments

We are Los Gallos Negros, a collective of people fighting to retake control of City Government. Los Gallos Negros are

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Was Lost Dog a Referendum on City Government?

2019-05-07 elrichiboy City Council, Great Wolf Resorts, Lost Dog, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 6 comments

Max Grossman points out the the ballot ordinance to save Lost Dog got more votes than Mayor Dee Margo did

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Water Parks = Economic Development

2019-05-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Water Parks 3 comments

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. From CBS4Local, in a story headlined New El Paso waterparks bringing economic growth to

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“Bienvenidos, Heather Wilson”

2019-05-06 elrichiboy Heather Wilson, UTEP One comment

Here’s a letter of support for UTEP’s new president Heather Wilson from retired judge Luis Aguilar that appeared in the

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Sunday Matinee: Assassin’s Tale

2019-05-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s an action flick with plenty of murder and mayhem and coping. Check it out.

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Retrovision: The Real Cost of the Quality of Life Projects

2019-05-03 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Economic Development, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for

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As Goes the Golf Course, So Goes the City

2019-05-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Times, the City isn’t going to bail out the Vista Hills Country

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Southern Rock

2019-05-02 elrichiboy Art, Music, Video One comment

Like the Allman Brothers and Lynard Skynard had a baby raised by wolves. Check it out.

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Will Water Parks Be The New Streetcars? And Other Questions

2019-04-30 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

In March, KFOX14 reported that the streetcars are a money pit. KFOX14 Investigates learned in the first four months of

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Retrovision: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About TIRZs*

2019-04-29 elrichiboy Lost Dog, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs Leave a comment

*That the City doesn’t want you to know. This article originally appeared on 23 May 2018. What is a Tax

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Retrovision: Economic Development: Economics 101

2019-04-29 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes One comment

This post originally appeared on 27 August 2015. Back when I was in school, before the wheel and shortly after

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The Storm That Swept Mexico

2019-04-27 elrichiboy History, Juarez, Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a cool two hour video that covers the history of Mexico, mostly the first half of the twentieth century.

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Don’t Be complacent about Lost Dog

2019-04-26 elrichiboy Elections, Lost Dog Leave a comment

I know, it looks like the open space advocates have this one won. But don’t underestimate the Forces of Evil.

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Migration analysis from Robert Moore

2019-04-25 elrichiboy Quality of Life Projects, Slider Leave a comment

Aspiring journalist Robert Moore recently reported on El Paso’s stagnant population growth for Borderzine, UTEP’s online magazIne for aspiring journalists.

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Cissy, Puhleeze

2019-04-25 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, Trolley 7 comments

An alert reader forwarded me the latest update from District 8 Representative Cissy Lizarraga. Serving the public is not easy;

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What’s Going on With Lost Dog?

2019-04-23 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Great Wolf Resorts, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 7 comments

Today the El Paso City Council had a meeting to discuss their response to the Lost Dog election. Early voting

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Retrovision: Taking a Ride

2019-04-23 elrichiboy City Management, Slider, Trolley Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 21 November 2016. How long do you think the trolley will run every day? How

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Adios, Amigo

2019-04-19 elrichiboy Economic Development, Liar Liar, Quality of Life Projects 6 comments

Remember all those reasons the bond advocates used to peddle those Quality of Life bonds? “Residential property owners are shouldering

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