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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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The Purple Zone Revisited

2014-10-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Remember that story about the DEA raid on the smoke shop in Alpine? How the feds showed up dressed for

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All My Friends

2014-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

This just in: a new company will offer tours to our sister city this winter. Juarez Lowrider Tours is offering

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Why Democracy Will Never Work in El Paso

2014-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“If it’s entirely a numbers game—numeric representation—then obviously you’d be talking to half the people in Hong Kong [that] earn

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Marketing Advice from today’s Wall Street Journal

2014-10-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Find your identity, and then throw everything you have behind that, because that’s going to be the most honest and

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Something to Consider

2014-10-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“The No. 1 most significant risk to every organization is your well-intentioned, nonmalicious insider.” – Jeff Leek, chief information security

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The Impending, Ongoing, QoL Bond Fiasco

2014-10-18 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Media 6 comments

Bad news for the Quality of Life Bond advocates. You got sold a pig in a poke. Remember when they

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If they can’t read, how can we expect them to write?

2014-10-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story from the August 16, 2014, El Paso Times, headlined US Department of State re-issues warning about traveling to

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California Assemblyman Jess Unruh on Lobbyists

2014-10-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“If you can’t drink their booze, take their money, sleep with their women and then vote against ’em, you don’t

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Buying Government Influence for Less $

2014-10-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m a little disturbed by Beto’s latest campaign move, to solicit donations of less than $200 from enough people to

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The Secrets of the Ballpark’s Financing

2014-10-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a little nugget I gleaned from Local Government Code Chapter 334, the ordinance under which we were gifted the

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Are UTEP Students Getting Their Money’s Worth?

2014-10-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Is UTEP one of the ten best universities in the country? Is it as good as UNM? The University of

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Legalizing Drugs

2014-09-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a wacky idea from some of the top institutional minds in the world, including former U.N. Secretary General Kofi

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How to Increase Voter Participation, Texas-Style

2014-09-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Recently there’s been a lot of chatter about increasing voter participation rates here in El Paso. The election of the

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The Murky Future Revealed

2014-09-23 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

You may recall that the City of El Paso is scrambling to make up a $3.5 million dollar shortfall in

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Chuco-style Brand Management

2014-09-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

A reliable source related this story to me today. A woman parked her car by the library. She took her

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El Paso: Where Young People Go to Leave

2014-09-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The New York Times Magazine ran a feature on Portland touting the city’s ability to attract and retain college educated

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National PARK(ing) Day in Downtown El Paso

2014-09-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In an effort to promote downtown El Paso, the City has commandeered what looks like a couple of parking spaces

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It’s Lonely at the Top . . .

2014-09-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

or so I’m told. We only made it to the saddle.

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El Paso is Home to the Second Best Burrito in America

2014-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

The website fivethirtyeight.com claims that Delicious Mexican Eatery’s chile verde burrito is the second best burrito in American, being edged

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The Future of Journalism

2014-09-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Dead tree media have had a hard time competing with the internet. Newspapers thought that all they had to do

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