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Beisbol Been Very Very Good to Me

2020-05-21 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 10 comments

Minor league baseball is up against the wall, and it’s not because they’re trying to field a long ball to

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Retrovision: They Think You’re Stupid. They Might Be Right.

2020-05-13 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, It's All Good, Slider 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 28 April 2015. Did you know, that no matter how much money MountainStar Sports Group

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Wuhan Roulette

2020-05-12 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Slider 7 comments

I used to live in the greatest country in the world. If there was a problem, we’d solve it. We’d

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Retrovision: Who Represents El Paso?

2020-05-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Retrovision, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

This article originally appeared on 03 August 2015. If you only read the local newspapers, and maybe watch the City

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Tightening the Belt?

2020-05-08 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider 10 comments

In what world does cutting pay by five percent for the highest paid City staffers make sense? Tommy G is

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The Harsh Future of El Paso

2020-05-06 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

Here’s a great read from Medium.com titled The Harsh Future of American Cities: On the nation’s current trajectory, one of

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Viral Load

2020-05-05 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider One comment

Some viruses are so strong, and they reproduce so rapidly in the human body, that just a little dose of

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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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