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Words and Their Meanings

2020-11-13 elrichiboy City Management, Coronavirus, Karla Nieman, Liar Liar, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

El Paso City Attorney Karla Nieman had a birthday party for her daughter, in apparent contravention of the order against

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Daddy and Daddy Are Fighting

2020-11-13 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Mayor Dee Margo and County Judge Ricardo Samaniego are battling it out over local government’s response to El Paso’s soaring

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Where’s Susie?

2020-11-12 elrichiboy Slider, The "Progressives" 7 comments

From this week’s El Paso Inc.: The woman who has led El Paso’s PBS TV station for six years has

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What Is CooL?

2020-11-12 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 3 comments

For marketers, cool is the holy grail. Mostly, marketers find cool after it’s been discovered and try to monetize it,

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A Failure of Government

2020-11-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

Pizza king J. Kirk Robison penned a Letter to the Editor in Sunday’s Sun Shopper El Paso Times. It is

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The Government and the Governed

2020-11-09 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 15 comments

El Paso is culturally unique. There is no other place in the world like El Paso. The U.S. Census Bureau’s

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Is Mayor Margo Holding Walking Quorums?

2020-11-03 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Joyce Wilson, Slider One comment

Former city staffer and current District 2 candidate Judy Gutierrez had some revealing things to say in this story in

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El Paso, Covid Crossroads

2020-11-02 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Slider 3 comments

True story.* We were driving back from Big Bend, and everyone else in the car was asleep. So I decided

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What Do You Reckon?

2020-11-01 elrichiboy City Management, Elections, Ethics, Sam Rodriguez, Slider 3 comments

Today the El Paso Times published a guest column from City Engineer Sam Rodriguez. A cursory scan reveals that is

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The City’s Non-Political Political Ad

2020-10-31 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections, Henry Rivera, Sam Rodriguez, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

City Engineer Sam Rodriguez has an ad in this week’s El Paso Inc. Yup. You read that right. City Engineer

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Pearl Clutching as a Political Strategy

2020-10-31 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Politics, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

The old. The sick. And some other group, harder to define. Maybe you’re part of that other group. Maybe you’re

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Dee Margo is a Weak Mayor

2020-10-29 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections, Henry Rivera, Sam Morgan, Slider One comment

But don’t take my word for it. Here’s City Attorney Karla Nieman’s response to an ethics complaint against the mayor:

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The Suspense is Over

2020-10-26 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections, Henry Rivera, Politics, Sam Morgan, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

First it was the mystery mailers, and teevee ads, urging voters to support their “leaders”. Then it was that email

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Debbie Nathan on the Dark Money Campaign

2020-10-23 elrichiboy Elections, Slider Leave a comment

El Paso uber-journalist Debbie Nathan writes about the dark money campaign on Medium.com: Today, it’s dark, dark money time in

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Your Freudian’s Slipping

2020-10-21 elrichiboy Elections, Ethics, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Slider 2 comments

Here’s Mayor Dee Margo talking about his regime: Under his regime? Pol Pot had a regime. Stalin had a regime.

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Retrovision: Amazon Is Coming

2020-10-20 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 26 July 2020. From the El Paso Times: Amazon, the giant online retailer, plans to open

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Are the Elections Fixed?

2020-10-20 elrichiboy Elections, Slider 2 comments

Sometimes it feels like they are. We need exit polls. Those kids from Coronado High School were conducting exit polls

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Retrovision: City of El Paso #1 for Certificates of Obligation Debt in Texas

2020-10-19 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections, Henry Rivera, Sam Morgan, Slider, Taxes One comment

This article originally appeared on 12 February 2020. Woohoo! Yeah, the Miners suck, again, those poor dears. And people are

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The Oligarchs are Trying to Steal This Election

2020-10-19 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Elections, Henry Rivera, Joyce Wilson, Media, Politics, Sam Morgan, Slider, Taxes 10 comments

First it was that dark money campaign to “Support Our Leaders”. Now it’s this email from Woody Hunt. From: Woody Hunt

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The Anonymous Political Mailer

2020-10-15 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Henry Rivera, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Politics, Sam Morgan, Slider 2 comments

You have probably heard about that campaign to support “El Paso’s Leaders”. Maybe you’re even gotten one of their flyers

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