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  • The City’s U-Matter Program

    2023-06-02 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright You Are Not the You in U-Matter KVIA continues its block busting reporting with more information of the use of city credit

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  • The Poor Quality of Local Media

    2023-06-02 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright Did you see this report from KVIA? Former District 6 City of El Paso Representative Claudia Rodriguez spent more than $7,500 in

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  • Arrogance

    2023-06-02 Rich Wright

    If you look at the Census Bureau estimates for El Paso’s population, the inflection point was 2012. It didn’t turn negative till 2017, but in

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  • CITY POPULATION DECLINES ANOTHER 1,000 INHABITANTS SINCE LAST YEAR

    2023-05-30 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman The American Community Survey (ACS) of the Census Bureau has revealed that as of July 2022, the population of the City of

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  • CITY AUDITOR PRESSURED TO ALTER HIS REPORT ON CITY GAS CARDS!

    2023-05-27 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman In its reporting on the City gas card scandal, KVIA has reminded our community why it is has the highest-rated local television

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  • Max Grossman: “VIDEO SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF CITY GAS CARD USAGE SOON TO BE RELEASED”

    2023-05-25 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman As we learned from Edmundo Calderon, Chief Internal Auditor of the City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez and former City Rep. Claudia Lizette Rodriguez

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  • Adam Smith on Politics in El Paso

    2023-05-24 elrichiboy

    by Rich Wright From The Wealth of Nations: “To hurt in any degree the interest of any one order of citizens, for no other purpose

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  • What do you get the man who has everything?

    2023-05-22 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright How about a man made river? According to this story from the daily rag, El Paso Water is spending $15 million to

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  • CONSTRUCTION BEGINS IN TIRZ 13, THE LARGEST CORPORATE HANDOUT IN EL PASO HISTORY

    2023-05-19 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman Vic Kolenc of the El Paso Times and the Staff of the El Paso Inc have both published reports announcing that Paul Foster

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  • DRAINING THE SWAMP: FOAC COMMITTEE TO AUDIT CITY 380 AGREEMENTS AND NO-BID CONTRACTS

    2023-05-17 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman According to the Texas Comptroller, “Chapter 380 of the Local Government Code authorizes municipalities to offer incentives designed to promote economic development

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  • “SALTY” NELL

    2023-05-16 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey El Paso’s First Career Customs Inspectress When crossing an international bridge from Juarez to enter El Paso, we take for granted that

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  • Our Taxing Politicians

    2023-05-15 Rich Wright

    You read here that email that Max Grossman sent out, decrying the proposed $10 increase for cars registered El Paso County. That money would go

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Monday Morning’s Quarterback

2013-09-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

It’s easy to get mad when the ballpark costs leap another ten million dollars.  It’s easy to point fingers when

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The Gift That Keeps on Giving

2013-09-21 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Media, Politics 5 comments

Isn’t anyone from Mountain Star Sports Group interested in a little crisis management?  Don’t they realize that they’re hemorrhaging? Today

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Sales are Down

2013-09-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’ve been out of town for a couple nearly four months, and lately when I venture out in El Paso,

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More Email Drama

2013-09-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There’s this story in the El Paso Times about the City Attorney trying to quash a demand for depositions from

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A Solution in Search of a Problem

2013-09-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There’s an interesting story by David Crowder in this week’s El Paso Inc. It seems that the City proposed an

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Stop the bleeding

2013-09-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This morning the El Paso Times noticed that property taxes in El Paso are escalating at an undesirable rate.  Not

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The Last Great Place

2013-09-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

  They’re aren’t a lot of decent public spaces left for the common man.  If you squint, the future looks

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It’s All Better

2013-08-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I got a couple of reports from the meeting last Thursday of the El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau Strategic

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Why It’s Not All Good

2013-08-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Tomorrow the El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau Strategic Communication Task Force will meet  at the Convention Center to discuss

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Caro Quintero and the Border Patrol

2013-08-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Two curious and apparently unrelated news stories are eerily inversely similar. In one, a Mexican judge ordered the release of

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Things about Uruguay

2013-08-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Uruguay is slightly smaller that the state of Washington. It almost never freezes in Uruguay. Uruguay’s highest point is Cerro

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Guatitas a la Española

2013-08-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I got invited to a futbol club social gathering the other night.  Dinner was involved.  Chilenos eat late. Oh good,

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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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