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Downtown in the Age of COVID

2022-01-31 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Downtown, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

Making downtown vibrant was always a tough task. COVID made it harder. Sealed office buildings where the windows don’t open?

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COVID Testing

2022-01-12 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider Leave a comment

Say you’ve got symptoms. Chills. Fever. Muscle aches. Are you going to get tested? The word on the street is

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Hemp Fights COVID

2022-01-12 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Marijuana, Slider One comment

From OregonState.edu: Hemp compounds identified by Oregon State University research via a chemical screening technique invented at OSU show the

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Dealing With the Plague

2022-01-07 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Slider, Unpopular Opinion 12 comments

My personal physician and bodyguard had this to say: We should just do away with masking and social distancing and

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The City of El Paso is Chueco

2021-07-27 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Corruption, Ethics, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

From the El Paso Times: The El Paso City Council voted unanimously to accept a recommendation to reallocate $15 million in federal funding for

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La Feria on Avenida Juarez

2021-06-08 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Quarantine, Slider, What to Do 6 comments

There’s a big push to make Avenida Juarez an international tourist destination again. Never mind the big border security apparatus

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Losing Faith In Our Institutions

2021-05-25 Rich Wright Coronavirus, Slider 3 comments

Here’s a story from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that posits pretty conclusively that COVID originated in a lab

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A Cure for Covid?

2021-05-11 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Public Health, Slider Leave a comment

Living on the edge of three states and two countries makes you appreciate the arbitrary vagaries of legislative jurisdictions. In

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A Decline in Democracy

2021-04-06 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Inequality, Politics One comment

Here’s a piece from America’s Quarterly that documents the deterioration of democracy in the Americas, including in the USA. Globally

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How to Live in El Paso – Franklin Mountains State Park

2021-02-08 elrichiboy Coronavirus, How to Live in El Paso, Quarantine, Slider, What to Do 5 comments

The pandemic made some winners. Amazon. Best Buy. FedEx, and UPS. Locally, Crazy Cat. People wondered whatever happened to that

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Are Office Buildings Obsolete?

2021-01-06 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Before buildings had centralized refrigerated air conditioning, windows used to open. There was a little transition period, when the air

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It’s Who You Know

2021-01-04 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Letters to the Editor, Public Health, Slider 7 comments

From a Letter to the Editor in the El Paso Times: Last week, KFOX News reported on a vaccination event

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Marijuana Might Save Your Life

2020-12-21 elrichiboy Coronavirus, News 2 comments

From High Times Forbes.com: As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, researchers have started to look for solutions in an unlikely

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“They Make Patients Die Alone . . .”

2020-12-12 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Quarantine, Video Leave a comment
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Why Aren’t Masks Free?

2020-12-09 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Politics, Slider 4 comments

If the single most effective thing we can do to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus is for everybody to

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Cooking the Books?

2020-12-08 elrichiboy City Management, Coronavirus, Elections, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s another story from the people’s English language daily: El Paso County has officially surpassed the grim milestone of 1,000 COVID-19-related

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Secrets of Horse Trading

2020-12-06 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Elections, Politics, Quarantine, Slider 2 comments

I’ve always said that if you’re going to sell a blind horse, the first thing you tell the mark is

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How Do You Get Covid at Walmart?

2020-12-04 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Hot Hits, Media, Quarantine, Slider One comment

Is it available in Menswear, between the Rustler jeans and the Hanes underwear? Are unmasked infecteds coughing on the tomatoes?

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“New Mexico Passes $330 million coronavirus relief bill”

2020-11-25 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, News, Slider 2 comments

Allocates Big Bucks to Help Businesses Struggling from the Pandemic From CBSNews.com: New Mexico lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bipartisan

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Where Has the Money Gone?

2020-11-23 elrichiboy City Management, Coronavirus, Slider 2 comments

As of this morning, El Paso has recorded 81,511 positive tests for the Coronavirus, and 862 Covid-19 deaths. On May

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