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Is The City Paying Companies To Not Leave Town?

2017-11-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

At the October 3, 2017, meeting, the El Paso City Council passed the following ordinance: That the City Manager is

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El Paso Electric is a Bad Corporate Citizen

2017-11-06 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

The El Paso Inc. reports that El Paso Electric Company CEO Mary Kipp was recently feted at the El Paso

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El Paso Electric Fund Drive

2017-11-03 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Slider 2 comments

With the holidays coming up, it’s time to consider those of us who are less fortunate. Like those poor dears

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I Love El Paso

2017-11-02 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

El Paso is a great town. The people are friendly and unpretentious. The weather’s good, mostly. The sunsets are often

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Surprise! We’re Poor!

2017-10-30 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Inc., jobs in El Paso pay only 72 percent of the national

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The Master Plan

2017-10-22 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

How MountainStar Wants to Get You to Pay for Their Futbol Stadium Now it’s a futbol stadium. From the El

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MountainStar Sports Group Soccer Survey

2017-10-17 elrichiboy MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, sports, The Arena 5 comments

MountainStar contracted with a sports marketing management consulting company to conduct a survey to gauge El Paso’s interest in their

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Bloomberg on Jaime Bermúdez

2017-10-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a story from Bloomberg News on the Godfather of Maquilas, juarense Jaime Bermúdez. In Ciudad Juárez, along the U.S.-Mexico

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The Bad . . .

2017-10-15 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

El Paso made a couple more lists this week. We’re number nine on the list of fastest warming cities, according

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The Ugly

2017-10-15 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

Finally, this weekend the El Paso Times ran a guest column bylined by our beloved mayor. Here’s a piece of

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Plan B

2017-10-10 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena One comment

Here’s a video from Vice.com and Nike, celebrating Chicano culture and the Cortez. The contributions of Los Angeles’s Chicanos to

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We’re Going to Revitalize Ourselves to Death

2017-10-09 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

It’s time to stop pretending like El Paso’s biggest challenge is downtown revitalization. Here’s MountainStar Sports Group’s Executive Director Josh

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A Horror Story

2017-10-06 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

With Halloween right around the corner, I thought I’d share this true life horror story. The City of El Paso’s

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Welcome to Rancho El Paso

2017-10-05 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

El Paso is poor. According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, there were 267,376 households in El Paso County in 2016,

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Hubris, and an Attack on Democracy

2017-10-03 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 13 comments

They felt the wind and thought it was their own breath. When El Paso blew up, say from somewhere around

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Retrovision: Forget the Arena

2017-10-02 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

This article originally appeared on 8 February 2017. Here’s a feel-good story from the El Paso Times about how few

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It’s Time for Plan B

2017-10-02 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 7 comments

No, not emergency contraception. We missed that boat years ago. It’s time to stop pretending like those Quality of Life

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Straight Talk About the Arena

2017-09-28 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

There’s a lot of noise about the arena. Duranguito. Gringolandia. Contempt of court. Arrogant and dismissive. Mysterious phone surveys. Voter

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Greetings From Gringolandia!

2017-09-25 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 6 comments

Wish you were here! County Commissioner Vince Perez is all in our face about Senator Jose Rodriguez’ quote in Texas

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Finally, A Good News Story About El Paso

2017-09-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Media, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Here’s a story in Texas Monthly that paints El Paso as an enlightened community. Fighting the developers. Duranguito and the

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