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Nothing to See Here

2019-09-09 elrichiboy Politics, Slider Leave a comment

Lookie here. This advert in the El Paso Inc. says that State Representative Joe Moody is the new General Counsel

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The 3.5% Solution

2019-09-05 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Henry Rivera, Quality of Life Projects, Sam Morgan, Slider, The Arena, Water Parks 2 comments

You’ve probably heard that the Texas Legislature reduced the rollback rate to 3.5%. Here’s the skinny from the Texas Tribune.

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“I Was Hacked!”

2019-09-03 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider 9 comments

I guess District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez hasn’t been keeping up with current events. “I was hacked” seems to work

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Whose Economic Development Do You Think They’re Worried About?

2019-09-01 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

According the City’s FY2019 Budget, El Paso was poised to spend $19,814,987 on Economic Development in the 2019 Fiscal Year.

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Six Feet High and Rising

2019-08-30 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Well, lookie here. The dead tree edition of the El Paso Times reports that our County’s Hospital District is raising

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Retrovision: Make El Paso Great Again

2019-08-30 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Education, Retrovision, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 2017 March 30. Lemme tell you how to get us out of that hole that

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Mayor Margo’s Press Conference

2019-08-29 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Last week City Manager Tommy Gonzalez gave an interview to CBS4Local. Judging by the page hits and comments, y’all enjoyed

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The Legendary Barry Martin

2019-08-28 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso, Music, Slider, Your Health 6 comments

If you live in El Paso and you don’t know who Barry Martin is, you don’t own a guitar, and

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Bar Wars

2019-08-27 elrichiboy City Council, Law Enforcement, Politics, Slider 5 comments

I went to City Council last week to watch the Veto Theater. Chambers was packed with bar owners and employees

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Why You’re Fat

2019-08-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider, Your Health One comment

The Atlantic weighs in on some surprising reasons why it was easier to be skinny in the 80s than it

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Jobs Report

2019-08-22 elrichiboy Breaking News, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

Bob Moore reports, via his El Paso Matters twitter feed, that the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that things in

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Political Theater

2019-08-21 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Henry Rivera, Politics, Sam Morgan, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Yesterday City Council overrode Mayor Margo’s veto, allowing the city to raise tax rates for the third year in a

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Tommy Gonzalez Is Pissed Off

2019-08-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 13 comments

Here’s what City Manager Tommy Gonzalez said in an interview with CBS4Local: Gonzalez also listed iFly and Top Golf as

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The Cost of Living Well

2019-08-20 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

Apparently our elected officials of the County Commissioners Court are giving themselves about a twenty percent raise next year. This

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F is for Forget About it

2019-08-16 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Slider 3 comments

This just in, from the El Paso Times: The El Paso Independent School District is the only public school district

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The Business of Government

2019-08-15 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks 5 comments

I lifted some slides from City Manager Tommy Gonzalez’ presentation on the water parks to City Council. Like this one:

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Passing the Buck

2019-08-14 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 4 comments

KVIA reports that Mayor Dee Margo vetoed the tax increase that City Council approved. El Paso Mayor Dee Margo on

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Instagramable

2019-08-12 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso, Juarez, Slider 2 comments

This is the newest hip marker in Juarez, on the east end of the pedestrian mall on dieciseis, a block

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Trench Warfare

2019-08-12 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Those nice people at the Texas Department of Transportation are considering widening the freeway in Downtown El Paso, eliminating lots

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Revelation

2019-08-10 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Welfare for the Rich 8 comments

They said it was about Economic Development. They said that once we built those Quality of Life projects, companies would

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