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What The . . . ?

2018-08-22 elrichiboy Breaking News 2 comments

A UFO? Definitely. A flying saucer? Perhaps. Check out the picture that an avid reader (okay, actually the friend of

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Are Their Lips Moving?

2018-08-20 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, TIRZs One comment

El Paso Inc. this week had a nice feature on Hunt Companies’ development in Northwest El Paso. Have you been

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief

2018-08-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

You’ve been good. Some of you have been very good. Others, not so much. You know who you are. For

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Where Am I?

2018-08-18 elrichiboy History, New Mexico 13 comments

A reader sent in this photo, and he’s looking to identify the location. Here’s what Phillip tells us: Westward bound

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Oye, Coño!

2018-08-18 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 6 comments

Have you been waiting for a good Cuban restaurant to open downtown? Wait no longer! Los Lopez Lopez just opened

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Toro!

2018-08-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 2 comments

Are you in the mood for a barbaric spectacle that’s steeped in tradition? Well, the election isn’t till November, but

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“Hold The Line”

2018-08-15 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

This from the El Paso Times this morning: The City Council rejected a utility sales tax on natural gas and

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Sunday Matinee: Anon

2018-08-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a movie starring Clive Owen as a detective on an omniscient police force trying to stop a hacker who

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Retrovision: Who’s Driving This Truck?

2018-08-10 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 15 December 2016. It looks increasingly like City Staff are giving direction to City Council

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About That Great Wolf Lodge

2018-08-06 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Taxes 9 comments

The poobahs at Great Wolf got hornswoggled into opening one of their hotel water parks in El Paso. Have you

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Sunday Matinee: Pickup on South Street

2018-08-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Here’s a cold war era noir flick from back when the Soviet Union was a bad actor. How times have

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Retrovision: The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2018-08-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Education, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes One 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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The Mayor’s Missing Emails

2018-07-30 elrichiboy City Council, Ethics, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

From the El Paso Inc.: El Paso Mayor Dee Margo appears to have sidestepped the city’s public information rules and

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Sunday Matinee: The Rover

2018-07-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 2 comments

Here’s a 2014 post-apocalyptic dystopia flick set in the Australian outback. No, not Mad Max. A different, more believable, post-apocalyptic

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The Easiest Thing To Do Is Not Care

2018-07-27 elrichiboy City Council, Elections, Slider 8 comments

City Council has shown a complete disregard for what many members of the community care about. They’ve made their decisions

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We Hardly Knew You

2018-07-24 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development 2 comments

By now you may have heard that Pacific Financial appears to have folded up its tent and left town. Or

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Sunday Matinee: Sync

2018-07-22 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a surprisingly decent movie that half Quantum Leap, half James Bond, and half Westworld. That’s right. It’s a movie

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A Letter

2018-07-20 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena One comment

Someone slipped this under the door of El Chuqueño World Headquarters last night. It appears to be a letter from

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Bloomberg on Publicly Funded Stadiums

2018-07-19 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

An alert reader pointed out that this week Bloomberg.com, that bastion of liberal thinking, ran an article called Four Reasons

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“The Sunk Cost Fallacy”

2018-07-18 elrichiboy Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Here’s a piece from YouAreNotSoSmart.com on the Sunk Cost Fallacy, the idea that you’ve already invested so much in a

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