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  • Retrovision: Rat Park and Addiction

    2023-09-27 elrichiboy

    This post originally appeared on 04 September 2018. What are the factors that contribute to drug abuse and addiction? We are largely a country of

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  • An Open Letter to El Paso’s Mayor and City Council

    2023-09-25 Max Grossman

    from Max Grossman Dear Mayor and City Council, In 2017, the El Paso County Commissioners Court conducted an architectural survey of Downtown El Paso and

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  • City of El Paso Strategic Communications Director LAURA CRUZ-ACOSTA BARS MEDIA FROM INTERVIEWING CANDIDATES FOR POLICE CHIEF

    2023-09-19 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman Those in our media who have had contact with the City’s Director of Strategic Communications, Laura Cruz-Acosta, will not be surprised to

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  • Bait and Switch

    2023-09-19 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright From KTSM.com: The federal government plans to spend up to $700 million on an expansion of the international Bridge of the Americas

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  • TOTAL DEBT OF OUR FIVE TAXING ENTITIES EXCEEDS $5.1 BILLION!

    2023-09-19 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman Our property tax consists of the combined levies of five local taxing entities. If you live within the El Paso Independent School District

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  • Us and Them

    2023-09-12 Rich Wright

    The problem with giving our “public servants” big salaries is that it changes who they are and who they serve. When you’re pulling down $100k

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  • COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR ATTACKS NON-PARTISAN PETITION

    2023-09-11 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman Michael Apodaca, Chair of the El Paso County Democratic Party, issued a press release today attacking the non-partisan effort to recall City

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  • Cartels at the Border

    2023-09-08 Rich Wright

    Here’s an enlightening article about corruption at the border from the author of El Narco: Since the Department of Homeland Security was created in 2002,

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  • COUNTY VOTES 4-1 TO INCREASE PROPERTY TAX

    2023-08-28 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman Today the County Commissioners Court voted 4-1 to increase the County property tax rate to $0.458889 per $100 of assessed value, which

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  • Rep. Cassandra Hernandez’ Letter of Reprimand Upheld by City’s Ethics Commission

    2023-08-24 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright From ElPasoTimes.com: The Ethics Review Commission voted unanimously to reject a motion from El Paso city Rep. Cassandra Hernandez to reconsider the

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  • COUNTY VOTES FOR 16% SALARY INCREASE FOR COMMISSIONERS, UP 113% SINCE 2016

    2023-08-24 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman Our County Commissioners Court consists of four Commissioners and a County Judge. In 2016, our four County Commissioners were paid $62,680 per

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  • HERNANDEZ’S HUSBAND FILED BAR COMPLAINT AGAINST ETHICS COMMISSION CHAIR!

    2023-08-22 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman Adam Powell of the El Paso Times just published a report revealing that Jeremy Jordan, the husband of City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez,

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Bowling for Life?

2015-04-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you see this photo by Rudy Gutierrez? That guy is 87 years old. He looks like he’s sixty. He’s

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No, really, I’m serious

2015-04-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

You know, downtown El Paso is blighted by vacant lots. Prime real estate. Vacant lots. I was thinking, what those

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Crossing Over

2015-03-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Do you need a passport to come back from Mexico? Longtime Juarez day-tripper Tom doesn’t think so. “I never bring

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Is he just baiting me?

2015-03-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Noted helicopter blogger David K had this to say in a recent column about the new ordinance the City is

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Well, that’s a surprise

2015-03-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The owners of the blog site Building San Jacinto Plaza have shut it down. Now we’ll never know.

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Monarch (It’s Comfortable!)

2015-03-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Uncategorized 5 comments

Are you still officing out of Starbucks? You should fold up your portfolio and move it over to Monarch. Monarch

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Hot Potato

2015-03-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Here’s a story problem in political calculus: If you were elected to public office, and the previous administration had incurred

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The Chicano Mexican-American Hispanic Cultural Museum

2015-03-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

What we don’t need is another museum downtown that gets as much traffic as a mausoleum. How about, instead of

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Managing the Public Image

2015-03-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a report that Mexico paid Sony big bucks not to cast our southern neighbor in a negative, though perhaps

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Would you let your daughter date a guy like that?

2015-03-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Imagine if our local government were a person. Would you want that person for a friend? Would you trust that

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The Downtown Paradox

2015-03-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

The buildings all sell for millions of dollars, but you can rent them for hundreds. Everybody’s holding out for the

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NASA Scientist Says California Has One Year of Water Left

2015-03-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an Op-Ed from the LA Times, in which a NASA scientist claims that the Golden State is running dry.

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The Wall Street Journal on Public Money for Professional Sports Stadiums

2015-03-12 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

You guys may have missed the story in Monday’s Wall Street Journal titled “Pro Stadiums, Public Money.” It’s behind a

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Why you should get a passport

2015-03-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Forget, for a moment, that you live on an international border, and that going to Juarez is probably the most

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Caballo Blanco Ultra Cancelled, a victim of progress

2015-03-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Last weekend organizers cancelled an ultra-marathon in the Copper Canyon shortly before it was scheduled to start. You can read

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Hornswoggled again?

2015-03-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

You’d think that our local newspapers would be a bit leery of the propaganda coming out of the City by

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Beating Climate Change, Desertification, and World Hunger

2015-03-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a TED talk that tackles all the most significant crises threatening our survival on the planet, founded in uncommon

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Devitalizing Downtown

2015-03-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s the latest narrative spin: River Oaks demolished a cluster of five decaying buildings on the property last year over

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Bill Proposed to Legalize Marijuana in Texas

2015-03-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this report: In Texas, a conservative lawmaker filed a bill to completely deregulate marijuana in the Lone Star

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What, exactly, would go in an Hispanic cultural center?

2015-03-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

A ’66 Impala lowrider? Folklorico dancers? A Gaspar Enriquez mural? Zoot suits? A diorama depicting the origin of the Barrio

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