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Am I drunk again, or am I still drunk?

2013-09-25 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Let’s dredge up a quote from Saturday’s story in El Paso’s English language daily: MountainStar said it wants to have

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What the $10 million announcement really meant

2013-09-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m just speculating here.  But I think the truth lies behind this statement, as quoted from the El Paso Times:

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Monday Morning’s Quarterback

2013-09-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

It’s easy to get mad when the ballpark costs leap another ten million dollars.  It’s easy to point fingers when

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Sales are Down

2013-09-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’ve been out of town for a couple nearly four months, and lately when I venture out in El Paso,

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More Email Drama

2013-09-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There’s this story in the El Paso Times about the City Attorney trying to quash a demand for depositions from

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A Solution in Search of a Problem

2013-09-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There’s an interesting story by David Crowder in this week’s El Paso Inc. It seems that the City proposed an

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Stop the bleeding

2013-09-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This morning the El Paso Times noticed that property taxes in El Paso are escalating at an undesirable rate.  Not

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The Last Great Place

2013-09-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

  They’re aren’t a lot of decent public spaces left for the common man.  If you squint, the future looks

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It’s All Better

2013-08-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I got a couple of reports from the meeting last Thursday of the El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau Strategic

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Why It’s Not All Good

2013-08-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Tomorrow the El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau Strategic Communication Task Force will meet  at the Convention Center to discuss

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Caro Quintero and the Border Patrol

2013-08-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Two curious and apparently unrelated news stories are eerily inversely similar. In one, a Mexican judge ordered the release of

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Things about Uruguay

2013-08-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Uruguay is slightly smaller that the state of Washington. It almost never freezes in Uruguay. Uruguay’s highest point is Cerro

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Guatitas a la Española

2013-08-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I got invited to a futbol club social gathering the other night.  Dinner was involved.  Chilenos eat late. Oh good,

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Valparaiso’s Staircase Culture

2013-07-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Don’t go up the stairs at night,” our landlady told me. “They’ll steal your camera.” But it was June. The

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If you go to bed drunk in South America . . .

2013-07-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

the room spins in the opposite direction.

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Weather report

2013-07-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s raining in Valparaiso right now. A storm blew in from Antarctica, and the sea is angry. (I’ve never had

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Bamboozled in Thrall

2013-06-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

The most logical explanation for the illogical behavior of our immediate past City Council is that they completely believed the

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Bob Dylan on El Paso’s New Slogan

2013-06-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Cold-blooded killer, stalking the town Cop cars blinking, something bad going down Buildings are crumbling in the neighborhood But there’s

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What’s the Secret?

2013-06-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Some of the decisions that have been made lately make me think that the decision makers aren’t putting all their

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Name that Team

2013-06-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s my take on the El Paso Triple A Baseball Team Naming Fiasco, henceforth, Namegate. (Here’s the story in the

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