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  • God Bless Dee Margo

    2023-03-20 Rich Wright

    Poor Dee Margo. He is completely out of touch. Here’s a paragraph from his recent response to an open letter from Mayor Oscar Leeser: Under

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  • Report From Juarez

    2023-03-15 elrichiboy

    I am an accidental witness to recent turmoil in Juarez. Last Wednesday I walked into a riot. I was looking for a stop where I

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  • Retrovision — Economic Impact

    2023-03-11 elrichiboy

    This article originally appeared on 17 January 2017. What do you think has more effect on the El Paso economy. A downtown arena, or the

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  • “Lots of Empty Spaces”

    2023-03-07 elrichiboy

    Here’s a story from the El Paso Times headlined Downtown El Paso’s vacant buildings await next wave of redevelopment: Lots of empty spaces. That’s what

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  • Ancient History — Mayor John Cook’s Interview with the El Paso Inc.

    2023-03-05 elrichiboy

    From 9 June 2013: “Why are we making a significant investment in Downtown? The answer’s very simple. When I come to your house, you are

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  • Max Grossman: “THE FIRING OF CITY MANAGER GONZALEZ: OPEN LETTER TO REPS. HERNANDEZ, SALCIDO AND RIVERA”

    2023-03-04 elrichiboy

    March 3, 2023 Rep. Cassandra HernandezRep. Isabel SalcidoRep. Henry Rivera City of El Paso300 N. Campbell St.El Paso, TX 79901 Dear Reps. Hernandez, Salcido and

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  • Retrovision — This Guy Got Beat Up By the (Alleged) Kern Place Dog Killer

    2023-03-03 elrichiboy

    This post originally appeared on 08 March 2018. That’s Mark Boykin, the proprieter of Mark’s Cantina. Three years ago Mr. Boykin accused his next door

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  • Why Tommy Gonzalez Got Fired

    2023-03-03 elrichiboy

    It happened. El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez got canned Tuesday after 7 or 8 years on the job. By his own account, and the

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  • Retrovision: Max Grossman — “OUR WATERPARKS ARE A GIANT FINANCIAL BLACK HOLE”

    2023-02-27 Max Grossman

    This is the text of an email that I received 30 September 2022. by Max Grossman THE OPERATING DEFICIT OF THE FOUR WATER PARKS IS

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  • Max Grossman — “THE CASE FOR FIRING TOMMY GONZALEZ”

    2023-02-24 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman Tommy Gonzalez became City Manager of the City of El Paso on June 23, 2014. So what have been his achievements during

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  • Economic Development : We’ve Been Doing It Wrong.

    2023-02-19 Rich Wright

    The Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Foundation hired the Perryman Group to study and propose some suggestions regarding Economic Development in El Paso, and guess

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  • More Blood From a Turnip

    2023-02-15 Rich Wright

    You probably got a letter from El Paso Water last week. The letter announced a new fee that our municipally-owned utility will start charging you

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Zimmerman’s Chick Prefers the Attention

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story from the Associated Press, George Zimmerman won’t face charges for domestic violence after his girlfriend decided

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Two Americas by David Simon, the Creator of the Wire

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Via Facebook and Dangerous Minds and the Guardian: That may be the ultimate tragedy of capitalism in our time, that

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A Strategic Plan for Downtown Development

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

Here’s how you hyper-vitalize downtown El Paso, and develop its reputation as the coolest city in the Southwest: Buy the

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The World is a Hologram

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This article on Nature.com claims that scientists are closer to proving that the world as we know it is a

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25 Foot Shoulders

2013-12-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I told her there was only one standard for evaluating our relationship. The swamp coolers don’t work when it’s a

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Microsoft: U.S. Gov’t = Hackers

2013-12-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a piece in which computer giant Microsoft likens the United States government to accomplished, dedicated hackers. The problem with

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

2013-12-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story about a parasitical fungus that takes control of ants and persuades them to self-destruct. Kind of

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Ahead of the curve

2013-12-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It was less than three weeks ago that El Chuqueño advocated a basic minimum income for all Americans, and now

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My TEDx El Paso Talk

2013-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For your amusement and edification:

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F*ck you, Pig

2013-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This new study posits that humans arose as a chimpanzee/pig hybrid. Now it all makes sense.

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Country Justice

2013-12-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from LaPolaka from a couple of days ago. It seems that the Villa Ahumada chief of police

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More on Developing Downtown

2013-12-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I love walkable communities. I’m all for making downtown work. But baseball stadiums and arenas and museums aren’t going to

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Some Earnest Questions About Downtown Development

2013-12-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Are the citizens of El Paso supposed to keep pouring money into downtown until all the downtown real estate speculators

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Schisms in the War on Drugs

2013-12-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the article from the Guardian detailing policy differences between U.N. member nations on future drug policy. The story claims

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More on Mexico’s Garitas

2013-12-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexican President and GQ poster boy, says that closing the Aduana’s garitas is good for Juarez. It’s

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Thanksgiving Family Feud

2013-11-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Yesterday we had Thanksgiving at our house. All the relatives came. We were drinking, and then we started talking politics,

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No More Internal Migration Checks

2013-11-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in La Polaka, the Mexican government has decommissioned the customs checkpoints on highways from the border

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Thanks, America, by William Burroughs

2013-11-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the stuff that William Burroughs had to be thankful for, 1986. Pretty cynical, god bless him. I lifted this

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Where’s the Love?

2013-11-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This column by Nicholas Kristoff shines a light on it. He claims that rich people think they earned it, so

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Wikipedia and the Ballpark

2013-11-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Wikipedia has a post up about the ballpark. Unfortunately, the article is devoid of a lot of the real story

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