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Oops.

2015-06-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

No, I really blew it. I mean I really, really, blew it. I went by Lucy’s Coffee Shop today they

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Who Wants to be Mayor?

2015-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I suspect the power elite is cautiously, surreptitiously, gently, sidling up to some of the ankle-biters and suggesting that they

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What’s Their Game?

2015-06-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

So City Council is all het up to build a 12,000 seat arena in downtown. What’s that all about? We’re

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Adios, amigo

2015-06-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Lucy’s Coffee Shop, that venerable institution that opened in 1974 in that old motor hotel near downtown, appears to have

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The Borderplex Alliance’s New Strategic Plan: A Critique

2015-06-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars. — Steve Martin Did you read this story in

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Big News from Wazoo

2015-06-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did you read the big news out of Juarez last week? No, not the futbol team. (I thought Juarez already

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City (Not El Paso) Raises Taxes to Pay Legal Settlement for Police Misconduct

2015-06-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

In a case that may portend what’s in store for El Pasoans, the city of Inkster, Michigan, will hit taxpayers

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More on the New State Law on Public Corruption

2015-06-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times reports that the State Legislature passed that bill giving the Texas Rangers the authority to investigate

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The El Paso Times Urges Fiscal Responsibility!

2015-06-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times Sunday published an editorial calling for a more sensible approach to civic finance. Over the past

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Yeah, that will really work.

2015-05-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a story from Marty Schladen, writing in the El Paso Times: The director of the Texas Department of Public

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El Paso: Not like the Movies

2015-05-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

“Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable”. E.K. Hornbeck (Gene

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Where you stand and where you sit

2015-05-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I went to a birthday party for the daughter of a friend of mine last week. I started talking to

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How To Live in El Paso: Valentina Hot Sauce

2015-05-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Am I right? I mean, it’s not the same as that special salsa you make, with the grilled and raw

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Hey, we’re on Twitter!

2015-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Whatever that is. @elchuqueno Did I do that right?

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The El Paso Times vs. the PSB

2015-05-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times Editorial Board came out against the Public Service Board’s new franchise fee, now that the PSB

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Did you just hear something . . .

2015-05-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

hit the fan? No, not yet? Just you wait.

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Idle Speculation

2015-05-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In this story in this week’s El Paso Inc., (the one about River Oaks putting its downtown properties up for

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A Big Day in Whoville

2015-05-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For those of you who were wondering what to celebrate, or maybe what you were already celebrating.

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Maybe we’re the stupid ones.

2015-05-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Hell, if going broke is inevitable, we might as well spend our last paycheck on fancy doodads that can’t get

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We get the government we deserve.

2015-05-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

The El Paso Times Editorial Board weighed in on the significance of the recent election results. El Paso’s voters sent

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