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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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Valparaiso’s Staircase Culture

2013-07-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Don’t go up the stairs at night,” our landlady told me. “They’ll steal your camera.” But it was June. The

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Crazy Joe Muench

2013-07-24 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Media One comment

Two recent columns by El Paso Times’ Joe Muench question the straw men opposing progress in El Paso. Here’s one,

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If you go to bed drunk in South America . . .

2013-07-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

the room spins in the opposite direction.

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How El Paso (and Juarez) Are Different Than Chicago

2013-07-12 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

I was born in Chicago. I don’t remember it well. I was young at the time. There was a time,

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No good deed goes unpunished.

2013-07-09 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

I bet Josh and Woody Hunt, and Paul Foster and Alejandra de la Vega weren’t expecting the negative backlash they

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Weather report

2013-07-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s raining in Valparaiso right now. A storm blew in from Antarctica, and the sea is angry. (I’ve never had

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Bamboozled in Thrall

2013-06-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

The most logical explanation for the illogical behavior of our immediate past City Council is that they completely believed the

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Bland El Paso

2013-06-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 2 comments

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. And maybe it wasn’t that much of a secret. But really, they should have

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Bob Dylan on El Paso’s New Slogan

2013-06-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Cold-blooded killer, stalking the town Cop cars blinking, something bad going down Buildings are crumbling in the neighborhood But there’s

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What’s the Secret?

2013-06-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Some of the decisions that have been made lately make me think that the decision makers aren’t putting all their

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Name that Team

2013-06-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s my take on the El Paso Triple A Baseball Team Naming Fiasco, henceforth, Namegate. (Here’s the story in the

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How Steve-O Lost the Election

2013-06-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I think Steve was clueless. I think that his lopsided loss in the general election caught him flatfooted. He surrounded

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Mr. Natural wants to know

2013-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In response to The Road to Economic Development, Mr. Natural asks Right on about promoting cultural and educational values in

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When hackers attack

2013-06-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My web host informs me that someone has been trying to access El Chuqueno through a brute force attack. I’m

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The Road to Economic Development

2013-06-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 6 comments

As an El Pasoan, I appreciate the civic improvements that City Hall is foisting on us.  (Can I even call

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More on It’s All Good

2013-05-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s what the Urban Dictionary has to say about It’s All Good: Platitude that covers so many emotions and situations

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El Paso. It’s all good.

2013-05-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

I know it’s impolite (maybe even unpatriotic to the point of treason) to be critical of the current regime in

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Inmates run Maryland prison

2013-04-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Just like in The Wire, maybe, Season Six. The indictment described a jailhouse seemingly out of control. Four corrections officers

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Know the Lowrider

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“We spend more on our cars than we do on our houses,” Larry added. Larry is a member of Our

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Mercado Cerrajeros in Juarez, the durable consumer good graveyard.

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

It’s off of Libertad, in La Chaveña. ” like an elephant graveyard for consumer goods.” (read more at What’s Up.)

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