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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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  • HOME Nuestra Señora Apartments Shaping Up

    2023-08-19 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright HOME (the Housing Opportunity Management Enterprises, nee the Housing Authority of the City of El Paso) is building some new affordable apartments

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  • Inter Miami vs Nashville SC

    2023-08-19 elrichiboy

    Tonight at 7 Inter Miami plays Nashville SC for the Leagues Championship. I imagine you’ll be able to watch it on Univision if you own

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Observations on the State of Journalism

2014-02-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Time mgazine’s cover story on Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto was widely panned on the internet and social media, and

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Because El Paso

2014-02-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The John Cook campaign launched their website this week. Here’s a link. You should look at it. Then you should

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Quebrando Malo

2014-02-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the extended trailer for the Spanish Breaking Bad, set in Colombia. It’s exactly the same. Only different.

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We’re Number 46!

2014-02-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The United States, the world’s superpower, has been surrendering it’s moral high ground ever since, and probably before, 9/11. When

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Glass Beach Holiday

2014-02-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’ve been trying to figure out why the City’s recent branding efforts have been off-key. They refuse to acknowledge that

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Market Manipulation?

2014-02-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s something interesting I noticed: The price of Western Refining (WNR) stock has dropped more than 15 percent since its

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“The Disadvantages of an Elite Education”

2014-02-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

I’ve noticed that people who go to a name brand university, and even those who who go to a lower

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Stockton, The Future of El Paso

2014-02-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I just came across this story about Stockton, California, in the Huffington Post. It sounds eerily familiar: A $47 million

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The Brownfield Empire

2014-02-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

If any of you who read El Chuqueño don’t read The Brownfield Empire, you are doing yourselves a disservice. Here’s

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Snowden’s Interview with German TeeVee (in English)

2014-02-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I had no idea that Edward Snowden’s interview with German television hadn’t been covered by U.S. so-called mainstream media, until

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Even She Knows She’s Bullshitting

2014-02-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times reported that City Manager Joyce Wilson spoke to the Central Business Association last week. “The role

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Happy New Year!

2014-01-31 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

Yesterday I took a Chinese family over to Juarez. It was Chinese New Year’s Eve. We walked over, and got

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County Elections: Why bother?

2014-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Well, the county elections are coming up. So what? None of the incumbents have a lot to brag about what

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Deport the Biebs?

2014-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Biebs is lucky he’s not a poor Mexican: I think it’s fair to say then that if Bieber’s neighbor’s

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Those Poor Guys at the Borderplex Alliance

2014-01-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The ballpark stunt really backfired for the Hunts. Obama mobilized a disenfranchised electorate in 2008, and then Beto fanned the

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Strange Object on the Moon

2014-01-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story about some weird structure(?) on the moon. The wedge-shaped object, which has seven circular points evenly arranged

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I’ve Got a Secret

2014-01-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Don’t tell anyone, but I think the El Paso Times paywall isn’t working. They announced it last December, in an

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Pope’s Peace Doves Attacked

2014-01-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s hard to not read some symbolism into this story from The Guardian: Two white doves that were released as

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Is El Paso one of them?

2014-01-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story from the Chicago Tribune, detailing the woes of Redflex, a company that provides those red light

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Western Refining in the Mexoplex

2014-01-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did you see this story on KFOX, about a white powder coating cars, houses, and laundry around the Western Refinery?

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