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The Deck Park and the Health Costs of More Traffic

2021-12-05 elrichiboy Deck Park, Downtown, Public Health, Slider, The Trench 5 comments

Here’s an op-ed from Morten Naess in the El Paso Times: As a retired Sierra Medical Center emergency room physician,

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Quality of Life Much?

2021-12-03 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Here’s a heartbreaking story from the El Paso Times. I am reprinting it in its entirety. This holiday season, the

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Fooling Pete Buttigieg

2021-11-29 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning, Veronica Escobar 8 comments

Vic Kolenc covers the downtown freeway deck park in this story from the El Paso Times: A project to build

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I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

2021-11-23 Rich Wright ballpark, Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT 11 comments

I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing the traffic coming

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David Romo vs. Adair Margo

2021-11-20 elrichiboy History, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

From Adair Margo’s guest column in the El Paso Times: Since 2016, a falsehood has been spread nationwide about El

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Max For the Win!

2021-11-15 elrichiboy El Paso Times, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

Recently, “Former First Lady” Adair Margo wrote a guest column for the El Paso Times. Since 2016, a falsehood has

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Are We Finally Getting Good Government?

2021-11-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Downtown Historic District, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Or is it a trick? From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council met Tuesday to once again discuss whether seek to

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Amateurs From Kalamazoo

2021-11-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider Leave a comment

From a Time.com article, titled Two Rich Men Decided to Fund a Failing City. Some People Say They Made It

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What Do You Want From City Government?

2021-11-09 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 6 comments

The types at City Hall think City Government should be a growth industry. So do the people that benefit from

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Retrovision: Chime the Eff Up

2021-11-07 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, Isabel Salcido, Laura Cruz-Acosta, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 12 July 2021. Did you take the City of El Paso’s budget survey? It was

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City Spin

2021-11-06 elrichiboy City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

ElPasoMatters.com has A Q&A with Joe Pickett on his upcoming run for City Council, in which City City spokesperson Laura

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What’s Next? After Voters Reject Albuquerque Soccer Stadium Bond

2021-11-05 elrichiboy MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Trench 3 comments

From Albuquerque’s channel 13, KRQE.com: After voters soundly rejected the idea of a publicly financed soccer stadium, New Mexico United

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The Worms Turn

2021-11-05 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Gensler, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Did you see this item from Monday’s City Council Work Session agenda? Discussion and action on the development of cost

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Asia’s El Chapo

2021-11-04 elrichiboy Crime, Drugs, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a story from Toronto Life that sheds some light on Mexico’s criminal operations. Triads or the mafia or biker

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Redistricting Update – City Council Cheats Again

2021-11-02 elrichiboy City Council, Redistricting, Slider 2 comments

KTSM tells us that the City is inviting the public to attend, either virtually or in person, the meetings of

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Death By a Thousand Cuts

2021-10-30 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Slider, Taxes, University Medical Center 6 comments

The word on the street is that University Medical Center will open a new hospital on the east side. The

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Blame It On the Firemen

2021-10-28 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Law Enforcement, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

And the cops. That’s what other cities have done when their fiscal profligacy has run their finances into a ditch.

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Scorched Earth

2021-10-27 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, Cassandra Hernandez, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, Gensler, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

Way back in 2014, when I was trying to figure out the twisted logic of the City’s plans, I wrote

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Who Will Isabel Salcido Represent?

2021-10-26 elrichiboy City Council, Elections, Isabel Salcido, Politics, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

If she’s re-elected? This notification appeared in today’s City Council meeting agenda: For notation pursuant to Section 2.92.080 of the

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How Much Would the “Arena” Cost today?

2021-10-25 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 7 comments

Tomorrow, City Council will vote on whether or not to tell City Manager Tommy Gonzalez to come up with a

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