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  • The City’s U-Matter Program

    2023-06-02 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright You Are Not the You in U-Matter KVIA continues its block busting reporting with more information of the use of city credit

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  • The Poor Quality of Local Media

    2023-06-02 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright Did you see this report from KVIA? Former District 6 City of El Paso Representative Claudia Rodriguez spent more than $7,500 in

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  • Arrogance

    2023-06-02 Rich Wright

    If you look at the Census Bureau estimates for El Paso’s population, the inflection point was 2012. It didn’t turn negative till 2017, but in

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  • CITY POPULATION DECLINES ANOTHER 1,000 INHABITANTS SINCE LAST YEAR

    2023-05-30 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman The American Community Survey (ACS) of the Census Bureau has revealed that as of July 2022, the population of the City of

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  • CITY AUDITOR PRESSURED TO ALTER HIS REPORT ON CITY GAS CARDS!

    2023-05-27 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman In its reporting on the City gas card scandal, KVIA has reminded our community why it is has the highest-rated local television

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  • Max Grossman: “VIDEO SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF CITY GAS CARD USAGE SOON TO BE RELEASED”

    2023-05-25 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman As we learned from Edmundo Calderon, Chief Internal Auditor of the City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez and former City Rep. Claudia Lizette Rodriguez

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  • Adam Smith on Politics in El Paso

    2023-05-24 elrichiboy

    by Rich Wright From The Wealth of Nations: “To hurt in any degree the interest of any one order of citizens, for no other purpose

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  • What do you get the man who has everything?

    2023-05-22 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright How about a man made river? According to this story from the daily rag, El Paso Water is spending $15 million to

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  • CONSTRUCTION BEGINS IN TIRZ 13, THE LARGEST CORPORATE HANDOUT IN EL PASO HISTORY

    2023-05-19 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman Vic Kolenc of the El Paso Times and the Staff of the El Paso Inc have both published reports announcing that Paul Foster

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  • DRAINING THE SWAMP: FOAC COMMITTEE TO AUDIT CITY 380 AGREEMENTS AND NO-BID CONTRACTS

    2023-05-17 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman According to the Texas Comptroller, “Chapter 380 of the Local Government Code authorizes municipalities to offer incentives designed to promote economic development

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  • “SALTY” NELL

    2023-05-16 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey El Paso’s First Career Customs Inspectress When crossing an international bridge from Juarez to enter El Paso, we take for granted that

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  • Our Taxing Politicians

    2023-05-15 Rich Wright

    You read here that email that Max Grossman sent out, decrying the proposed $10 increase for cars registered El Paso County. That money would go

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Coming Soon: Will Ballpark-gate Ruin Rick Perry’s White House Run?

2014-12-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Let me just leave this here for now while I work on it. Maybe the indictments are already in the

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Bringing Business to El Paso: The Water Problem

2014-12-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You’ve probably read this story in the El Paso Times, about how El Paso is running out of water. The

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The Bane of QoL: O & M

2014-12-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

El Paso is a cash-strapped town. Nobody foresaw that our boom years, when Fort Bliss was expanding and Juarez was

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Because They Care

2014-12-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Good news, El Paso. MountainStar Sports Group wants to save us money. According to this story in the El Paso

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Word of the Day

2014-12-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Corruption – dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people (such as government officials or police officers); source: www.merriam-webster.com Example

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Police Violence Isn’t New

2014-12-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a post from the Anunciation House blog recalling an earlier case of sudden death at the hands of peace

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Redevelopment Revisited

2014-12-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

How, do you suppose, will the “news” that El Paso’s under 35 population has the second lowest median income in

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Way Too Little, Too Late

2014-12-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

A local newspaper reported Saturday that Police Officer Jose Flores, one of El Paso’s Finest, was fired from the El

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Ouch

2014-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a cartoon I lifted from Insight Crime, a website devoted to enlightening readers to the peculiarities of organized crime

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The Real Problems

2014-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story from the Atlantic, analyzing census date using a new tool from the U.S. Census Bureau. According

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The San Jacinto Plaza Blog

2014-12-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you know that there’s a blog detailing the progress of the San Jacinto Plaza renovation? Can you imagine a

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A Sobering Thought

2014-11-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Remember that the same people that take two years to renovate a one acre park, the same people who are

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Why El Paso Doesn’t Vote

2014-11-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story in the El Paso Inc. reports that the city’s election participation rate is the worst in Texas. About

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Fact Check, Please

2014-11-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

A commenter posting under the handle Times Building Ghost on the blog Refuse the Juice said this: Do you know

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BRIO Revisited

2014-11-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

I am a big fan of public transportation. I like that effective public transportation relieves a person of the onerous

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Des Moines: A Model for Economic Development

2014-11-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

According to this story from the National Journal, Des Moines is a hipster mecca. Young people here know what you

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El Paso’s Sales Tax Receipts Stay Flat

2014-11-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to the Texas State Comptroller, sales tax receipts for the City of El Paso were flat for the past

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The 19th Largest City in the U.S.?

2014-11-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 4 comments

You have, no doubt, heard the oft repeated factoid that El Paso is the 19th biggest city in the U.S.

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I Rode the BRIO So You Wouldn’t Have To

2014-11-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m going to let you in on the dirty little secret that Sun Metro doesn’t want you to know: That

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Conspiracy Theory?

2014-11-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized 6 comments

Isn’t it great that I post two videos, and both of them get pulled? I tell you I am cutting

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