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Retrovision: The Bane of QoL: O & M

2019-05-18 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes One comment

This article originally appeared on 18 December 2014. El Paso is a cash-strapped town. Nobody foresaw that our boom years,

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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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Retrovision: More Rate Increases

2018-12-08 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Retrovision, Slider Leave a comment

[This article originally appeared on May 18, 2017.] El Paso’s English language daily reports that Texas Gas, i.e., the gas

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Retrovision: Can El Paso Go Bankrupt?

2018-05-24 elrichiboy Retrovision, Slider, TIRZs One comment

This article originally appeared more than four years ago, on July 30, 2014. I mean, we’re not like other towns.

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Retrovision: The City’s War on Small Business

2017-12-18 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Retrovision, Taxes Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on December 7, 2016. God bless those nice people in city government. They are completely clueless.

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Retrovision: It’s Only (Your) Money

2017-07-28 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, The Arena 2 comments

This article originally appeared on March 28, 2016. Remember when the machine was pitching those Quality of Life bonds? Some

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The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous

2017-06-05 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Retrovision 4 comments

Back before we were old enough to drink, we drank Schlitz. Schlitz tall boys, in steel cans, with a seam

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Retrovision: El Paso is an Elephant

2017-05-10 elrichiboy Politics, Retrovision 3 comments

This post originally appeared on April 20, 2015. We’re like the three blind men who were presented with an elephant.

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Retrovision: Trouble in Paradise

2017-03-02 elrichiboy Juarez, Retrovision Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on May 21, 2012. Last week I went to Juarez to see which bars were being

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