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Retrovision: They’re Bullies

2019-10-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 14 August 2018. Did you see this story on KVIA? Texas oilman J.P. Bryan, one

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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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Instagramable

2019-08-12 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso, Juarez, Slider 2 comments

This is the newest hip marker in Juarez, on the east end of the pedestrian mall on dieciseis, a block

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Riding the Decline

2019-05-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Our city leaders — all of them, the elected and the economic and the City staff — are managing El

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A Private Letter To Paul Foster

2019-05-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider, Uncategorized 8 comments

If you’re not Paul Foster, please stop reading this. Pablo, Can I call you Pablo? I mean, it’s just us.

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Will Paul Foster Do Better?

2019-05-10 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 6 comments

Now that the Borderplex Real Estate Investment Trust has sold its downtown real estate assets to Paul Foster’s Franklin Mountain

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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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The Effects of Corruption

2019-03-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in this interview with the El Paso Inc. Scholarly

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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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Ask Not For Whom the Bell Tolls

2019-01-08 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Management, Economic Development, Slider 6 comments

Do y’all remember REDCo? Sure you do. If you’re not old enough to remember REDCo, you’ve already left El Paso

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Our Dirty Little Secret

2018-12-30 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Media, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

Imma let you in on a little secret. In El Paso, we don’t get the best and brightest. Look, for

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El Paso in the Guardian

2018-12-28 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Lately El Paso has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. But here’s something nice. Here’s a story

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Comedy Council

2018-12-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Ethics, Slider 4 comments

From KVIA, here’s Representative Henry Rivera, addressing the leak of a draft of City Manager Tommy “Great Wolf” Gonzalez’ new

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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

2018-11-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Elections One comment

Today is an inflection point in the evolution of El Paso. Today, voters in the state either will or won’t

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The City’s War Against Poor People

2018-11-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider 6 comments

City Council has turned public policy into a war against poor people. Which is weird, because El Paso is poor.

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“The True Cost of Corruption”

2018-11-04 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 2 comments

Oh, the irony. Here’s a great interview from the September 8, 2009, issue of the El Paso Inc. with an

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Future El Paso

2018-10-17 Rich Wright Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 6 comments

Isn’t anyone else concerned that the City of El Paso is operating on a plan that was largely conceived in

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From the People Who Brought You “It’s All Good”

2018-10-15 Rich Wright Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Economic Development, It's All Good, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

If you needed more proof of El Paso’s corrupt, inbred, good old boy network, consider this: Bill Burton, the mastermind

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El Paso’s Finest

2018-07-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement 3 comments

By now you’ve seen the El Paso Police Officer draw his weapon on those kids on the southside. In case

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