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The Gift That Keeps On Giving

2021-01-09 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 6 comments

For petty revenge, give your best frenemy a dog. Or, better yet, give it to their daughter. Make it a

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I Am a Capitalist

2021-01-07 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Even though I don’t own any capital, I am a capitalist. I still believe that capitalism is the most effective

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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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Serving the Community?

2021-01-04 elrichiboy City Management, Liar Liar, Slider One comment

Here’s a Letter to the Editor of the El Paso Times: It was reported that “hardly anyone” in El Paso

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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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The Failing Health of Government By Spin

2020-12-30 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Ethics, Media, Politics, Slider, Technology Leave a comment

El Paso has a long history of catering to private interest in the name of public good. That worked before

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A Message From the Local Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America

2020-12-22 Xavier Miranda Politics, Elections, Guest Column, Slider 4 comments

Greetings All, My name is Xavier Miranda, and I am the new Chair of the DSA of El Chuco Electoral

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Better Candidates = Better Government

2020-12-21 elrichiboy Politics, City Council, Elections, Slider 8 comments

El Pasoans don’t vote. In the most recent mayoral runoff, only 13% of the registered voters cast a ballot. Yeah,

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Retrovision: Our Local Public Private Partnerships

2020-12-17 elrichiboy The Arena, ballpark, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Opportunity Costs, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 08 February 2018. Public Private Partnerships are all the rage. The ballpark got one. The

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What’s Wrong With the Ballpark

2020-12-16 elrichiboy ballpark, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

The baseball stadium is nice. Real nice. One of the nicest ballparks in the country, and one of the nicest

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Retrovision: The Master Plan

2020-12-12 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 22 October, 2017. How MountainStar Wants to Get You to Pay for Their Futbol Stadium

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The Bets are In

2020-12-11 elrichiboy City Council, Elections, MountainStar Sports Group, Sam Morgan, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

The latest Campaign Finance Reports are interesting. MountainStar Sports Group has picked their favorites. Mayor Dee Margo received $23,031.48 from

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La Feria on Avenida Juarez

2020-12-10 elrichiboy Slider, Economic Development, Juarez 7 comments

Downtown Juarez was my third place. The third place is the place that’s neither home nor work. The place you

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Are They Still Going to Fix Tickets?

2020-12-09 elrichiboy Corruption, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement, Slider 2 comments

I guess you heard that we’ve got a new District Attorney. She takes office in January. She’s already made plans

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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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The King of Mesa Street: The Life and Death of a Border Bluesman, Part 3

2020-12-08 Kent Paterson Local Heroes, Music, Slider 4 comments

This is the last part of a three part series. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here.

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Cooking the Books?

2020-12-08 elrichiboy Coronavirus, City Management, 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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El Paso’s Fourth Tit

2020-12-07 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Elections, Ethics, Media, Slider 9 comments

I reckon the local oligarchs really got their hooks into the El Paso Times. Yesterday the El Paso Times had

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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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RetroVision: Beisbol been very very good to me

2020-12-05 elrichiboy ballpark, Retrovision, Slider 2 comments

This post originally appeared way back on 21 May 2020. Minor league baseball is up against the wall, and it’s

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