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  • 50 Years of “Women Make Movies”

    2022-07-03 elrichiboy

    From Ariel Daugherty: This year I am celebrating Women Make Movies’, Inc. 50th anniversary, In 1972 I was one of its two co-founders. While in

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  • Economic Indicators

    2022-07-06 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times reports that the Fallas Department Store in DWNTWN is closing: One of Downtown El Paso’s largest stores, which closed for just

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  • “Why Roads ALWAYS Fill Up, No Matter How Much We Widen Them”

    2022-07-04 elrichiboy
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  • Rent a Bullring

    2022-07-02 elrichiboy

    Are you looking for a place to host your next bullfight? The banner on the Alberto Balderas Plaza de Toros in downtown Juarez says that

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  • Retrovision – The Economic Impact of Arenas: A Brief Survey

    2022-06-28 elrichiboy

    This post originally appeared on 13 December 2021. The El Paso City Council recently approved the following motion: “To direct the City Manager or designee

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  • Retrovision – Blame It On the Strategic Plan

    2022-06-22 Rich Wright

    This post originally appeared on 07 February 2022. If you want to know what’s wrong with governance in El Paso, you have to look no

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  • More Good News From EPISD

    2022-06-22 Rich Wright

    From KVIA.com: The El Paso Independent School District board is expected to vote on increasing teachers’ salaries by 5% — a pay boost that comes

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  • The (Migrant) Season of Death is Upon Us

    2022-06-21 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson  Summer Solstice should be a time for celebration. But for many desperate migrants attempting to enter the United States, it is a

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  • San Antonio’s Development Problems

    2022-06-20 elrichiboy

    From the Washington Post: Visitors entering Rebecca Flores’s San Antonio home pass a sepia-toned photo of her large Tejano family on the Texas farmland they

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  • “Towards an American Union”

    2022-06-07 Vanessa Johnson

    by Vanessa Johnson From Frank News: In the spirit of the European Union and specifically the Schengen Agreement, I propose that the Americas enter into

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  • Place Your Bets

    2022-06-07 elrichiboy

    District 1 Representative Peter Svarzbein filed a Code of Conduct complaint against Mayor Oscar Leeser today, according to this story from CBS4Local.com: The complaint comes

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  • Evaluating Our Priorities

    2022-06-02 Rich Wright

    They are coming out of the woodwork (and maybe from under rocks) to weigh in on Tommy Gonzalez’ future. From a guest column by former

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  • Tommy Gonzalez Doesn’t Like El Paso

    2022-05-30 Rich Wright

    Recently, Tommy Gonzalez applied for a job in Frisco, Texas, despite making more than $400,000 a year here. If he were to get the job

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Downtown Parking

2013-11-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Maybe you’ve negotiated the Times excruciating new website to read this story about a study for a new parking garage

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American Democracy Unmasked

2013-11-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Listen to this cynical (probably entirely correct) rant from former Fox News commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about the state of

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The Middle Class is Obsolete

2013-11-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this interesting article from Alternet, the decline in the middle class is of no concern to the wealthy,

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More on Dwntwn

2013-11-11 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development One comment

By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about the Downtown Management District shenanigans. To recap quickly,

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The End of the Interwebs

2013-11-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this opinion piece from Wired, we all better enjoy the internet while we can. The country’s second highest

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Dwntwn, Fast and Furious

2013-11-09 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

There’s an interesting story by David Crowder in today’s El Paso Inc. Here’s much of the story, as related in

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Deming Sued for Sodomizing Civilian

2013-11-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story about a police stop gone wrong. Very wrong. And they have duck races, too. [Update]: It

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Mr. Crazy Knows Best

2013-10-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I think Mr. Crazy said it best: I came to the conclusion that even though I’m gonna have to wear

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Times up and out

2013-10-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times parent corporation, citing the soft economy and increased on-line competition, layed off 19 people this week,

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The Moving Target

2013-10-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did anyone notice the cognitive dissonance in the noise coming out of the ballpark crowd? I am really trying to

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Promoting Downtown El Paso

2013-10-23 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Promoting higher population densities in the urban core is a good thing. Higher population densities, and better public transportation, yield

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Deadspin on Chihuahuas

2013-10-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Two-word team names are minor league baseball’s bread and butter, and while the Desert Gators and Sun Dogs sound like

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Brand El Paso (fixed)

2013-10-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized 9 comments

Mithoff Burton Partners (“where creativity goes to die,” as one commenter put it) were given $300,000 by the City of

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In Defense of the Ballpark

2013-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a video from El Paso Triple A Baseball (I guess) helping you to understand the noble goals MountainStar Sports

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Ortega’s Gambit

2013-10-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

You’ve read that Steve Ortega has moved to quash his deposition, and the attempt to sift his emails relating to

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Alejandro Escovedo at Tricky Falls

2013-10-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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City Slogans

2013-10-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s an article from the Atlantic on new city slogans for 2011. Even the worst is better than It’s All

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Some Thoughts on the Royal Succession

2013-10-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There’s been a lot of chatter about Joyce Wilson’s resignation announcement this week. Here’s how I read it. With Ms.

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Documenting San Antonio’s Barrio Gang History

2013-10-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

At a time when train tracks separate much of the West Side from downtown, when many of the streets were

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Conundrum El Paso

2013-10-09 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Plan El Paso is the City’s general blueprint for “the built environment.” The Plan adopts the principles of New Urbanism,

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