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Paul Foster Needs a Hobby

2020-05-04 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 17 comments

Paul Foster inserted himself into the news cycle this week, with this email he sent to all the players on

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Heaping Disrespect on Disrespect

2020-05-01 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Henry Rivera, Slider 5 comments

From the El Paso Times: Eastridge-Mid-Valley city Rep. Henry Rivera denied he was referring to a resident as a “f—ing idiot”

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The City Wants to Give MountainStar a Soccer Stadium

2020-04-29 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, Urban Planning 10 comments

At yesterday’s City Council meeting, your Representatives voted 5-2 to support TxDOT’s plan to widen the freeway downtown. You won’t

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Power Cruise

2020-04-28 elrichiboy Coronavirus, How to Live in El Paso, Quarantine, Slider 2 comments

Right now, West Texas Intermediate is going for $14.16 a barrel. A year ago, it was almost $62. So why

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What About Open El Paso?

2020-04-28 elrichiboy Coronavirus, How to Live in El Paso, Quarantine, Slider 8 comments

I’m a little curious about the motivations of the Open El Paso advocates. Do their home lives suck? Maybe they

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The Lies They Tell Us

2020-04-27 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Tomorrow the El Paso City Council will vote on a measure to indefinitely postpone the proposed arena in Duranguito. Let’s

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Let Them Eat Cake

2020-04-24 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider 7 comments

From the Washington Post (paywall): Farmers in the upper Midwest euthanize their baby pigs because the slaughterhouses are backing up

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Dee Margo’s Task Force

2020-04-23 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider 15 comments

Good news, everybody. Sure, people are dying, and the economy’s in the pits, but our mayor has a plan. Dee

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“There are things more important than living.”

2020-04-23 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider One comment

Purple flowers are taking over my backyard. They’ve claimed a solid half of one of the raised beds, and they’re

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In the Rough

2020-04-17 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

From the El Paso Times: El Paso’s award-winning, 18-hole Butterfield Trail golf course will be closed at the end of

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About J.P. Bryan

2020-04-15 elrichiboy City Council, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 7 comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPVNuRwOXsE District 1 City Representative Peter Svarzbein called J.P. Bryan a “Houston billionaire” during Monday’s City Council work session. Like

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Breaking News vs. Broken News

2020-04-13 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Media, Slider 3 comments

The first person listed on the El Paso Times’ weekly feature, El Paso’s Most Wanted, is a 61 year-old man

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Dee Margo in His Own Words

2020-04-11 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

From the May 29, 2017, El Paso Inc.: [Mayoral candidate Dee Margo] says he’ll take what’s broken at City Hall

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Watching Our Wasteline

2020-04-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Public Transportation, Slider, Taxes 10 comments

The trolley’s not coming back. Right? The City will break it out for special events, like Chalk the Block. Maybe

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At Least They’re Honest About It

2020-04-09 elrichiboy Media, Slider Leave a comment

From the ElPasoMatters.org About Us page: Our organization retains full authority over editorial content to protect the best journalistic and

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Will Tommy G Self-Quarantine?

2020-04-03 elrichiboy City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

Did you see the new directives for dealing with COVID-19? Especially this one? Except for Healthcare Operations in Section 5(c),

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We Should Fire Tommy Gonzalez

2020-04-02 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

He might be a nice guy. Maybe. He’s been here five years, and I’ve never heard anyone accuse him of

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I Think I’ve Got the Coronavirus

2020-03-28 elrichiboy Slider 3 comments

On February 29th, I shook hands with someone who, unbeknownst to me, had just returned from Milan. A couple of

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About That Gran Logia del Lobo

2020-03-26 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Joel and Dr. Sam “She just wouldn’t shut up” Morgan think that people from Juarez and Chihuahua City will support

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Sam Morgan is Full of Shit

2020-03-23 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

God Bless Him. At last Tuesday’s City Council meeting, Dr. Sam “She Just Wouldn’t Shut Up” Morgan claimed that the

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