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Drunk Without Hangovers

2019-03-27 elrichiboy News 4 comments

It’s right around the corner, according to this article from the Independent. Alcohol that makes you feel drunk without the

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Business Community: Not In My Backyard

2019-03-26 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, Gratuitous Snark, MountainStar Sports Group 2 comments

Oh, the irony. From Aaron Montes at the El Paso Times: A large warehouse built 19 years ago in West

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Smells Like Corruption

2019-03-26 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

If the people who run the El Paso City Government are not totally corrupt, they’re grossly incompetent. Take that Great

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Who Dropped the Soap?

2019-03-22 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Here’s another informative piece from Vic Kolenc of the El Paso Times, headlined El Paso Water board breaks land-sale drought

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Widening the I-10 Trench

2019-03-20 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Did you see this op-ed in the El Paso Times by Sito Negron? You may have heard about the I-10

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The Chamber of Commerce is a Good Dog

2019-03-19 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Our friends at the El Paso Chamber of Commerce, the ones who heartily endorsed every project that has inflated your

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“Introduction to Quality”

2019-03-19 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

The El Paso Chamber of Commerce announced that on April 28, El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez will present a

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Why The Streetcars Don’t Work

2019-03-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Trolley 4 comments

If you take Sun Metro from the Glory Road Transfer Center to the Downtown Transfer Center, the bus leaves every

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El Paso Home Building Is At An Historical Low

2019-03-15 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Liar Liar, Slider 2 comments

From a story on Governing.com: In about 62 percent of the cities reviewed, 2018 permitting totals exceeded their averages over

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Ex-Rep Heather Wilson

2019-03-12 elrichiboy Ethics, Slider 4 comments

This week, UTEP announced, as the sole finalist to replace outgoing President Diana Natalicio, the former congresswoman from New Mexico

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Six Years On

2019-03-08 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement, Slider 9 comments

On March 8, 2013, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot the handcuffed prisoner Danny Saenz in the sallyport of

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On The Other Hand

2019-03-08 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement 2 comments

Here’s a story about some police violence perpetrated by the Boston Transit Authority Police: A former transit police officer and

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More Bull****t

2019-03-06 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider, What to Do 4 comments

Watch this video on YouTube Down below El Paso lies Juarez Mexico is different, like the travel folder says (Burt

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Disinformation

2019-03-05 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Ethics, Liar Liar, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Maybe you saw this op-ed in the El Paso Times this weekend: We are proud El Paso residents, but it

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Where Does The Money Grow?

2019-03-01 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes One comment

The Capital Improvements portion of the adopted FY 2019 budget is $198,758,086. Where does it come from? From the budget

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The Future: Smaller Stadiums

2019-02-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The problem with a 50 year plan is that things change, as noted in this article from Axios: After years

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Our Boys In Blue

2019-02-26 elrichiboy City Management, Law Enforcement 2 comments

Here’s an article from KVIA about the efforts of our local police: Nine emergency phone calls were made and two

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Feds Close the Bridge

2019-02-22 elrichiboy Breaking News, Slider One comment

U.S. Customs agents closed the Bridge of the Americas, aka the Free Bridge, this morning. Apparently the closure was related

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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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