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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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  • People Don’t Like Tommy Gonzalez

    2022-05-27 Rich Wright

    At least the taxpayers don’t like him. He’s been here since 2014, and I haven’t met anyone who tells me what a nice guy he

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  • Now That’s a Clean River

    2022-05-26 Rich Wright

    Good news, everybody. From a May 6, 2022, story on ElPasoTimes.com: El Paso Water completed cleanup on the Rio Grande this week, with several weeks to

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  • Retrovision – El Paso, a Metaphor

    2022-05-23 Rich Wright

    This post originally appeared on 30 July 2015. El Paso is like that really nice girl with the shitty boyfriend who treats her badly and

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Winning the War on Drugs

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Under the mask of the war on drugs By Lars Schall “If you look at the drug war from a

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Roseanne Barr on Drugs

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The War on Drugs: Now, after all these years, it even sounds dumb and tiresome. Here we are on our

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What’s wrong with El Paso

2012-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I like El Paso. What about all those people saying it’s not good enough for them? (read more)

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Except for the shooting, the war is over.

2012-08-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“I’d go to Juarez,” the straw man said, “except for all the killing.” (read more)

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Does El Paso need downtown development?

2012-08-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

All across American, downtowns are in trouble. They’re dead, or dying. It’s epidemic. When happy motoring drew middle class Americans

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Eeewww

2012-08-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “While being booked last Thursday night at the Doña Ana

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When machetes attack

2012-08-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “Las Cruces Police detectives learned that Gower was at 810

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The economic impact of a downtown baseball stadium

2012-08-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Are they crazy? Seventy-one games a year. Four hours a game, including pedestrian commute time. The rest of the time,

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Militant Bicyclists

2012-08-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Is it any surprise that most cyclists indentify as atheists and liberals?” (read more) Hat tip to Federico Villalba.

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Music Under the Influence

2012-08-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Have y’all been to Music Under the Stars lately? Of course you haven’t, because they’re not letting you bring your

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What if the baseball team sucks?

2012-07-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

What if the team sucks? Because (spoiler alert), they do. (read more)

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Strike One!

2012-07-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m sure they mean well, those private investors and city politicians who want to build a baseball stadium in downtown

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Seven a.m.

2012-07-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I hate vodka. I hate the icepick headaches that are the signature feature of vodka hangovers. I hate not knowing

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Mexican kidnap cops caught on video

2012-06-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story about some policia in Jalisco, barging into a hotel and picking up three men who were later

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Dancin’ Boots

2012-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I really love your hair, not many women can pull that off, she says. I smile and thank her, my

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American Exceptionalism?

2012-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You do not have to believe in the superiority of your country over others to love your country. The globalization

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Cartel rumors or brain tumors?

2012-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story comes to us from the Arizone Republic via Molly Malloy at Frontera List. “Although the grisly deaths were

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The 16th District from 20,000 feet

2012-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Economist wrote about the 16th Congressional District of Texas primary campaign between Beto O’Rourke and Silvestre Reyes. While they

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El Clausurado

Trouble in Paradise

2012-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

  Last week I went to Juarez to see which bars were being closed. (read more)

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Never let a crisis go to waste

2012-04-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The building that burned down on a Friday in April was not particularly important, despite the gnashing of teeth over

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