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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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The economic impact of a downtown baseball stadium

2012-08-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Are they crazy? Seventy-one games a year. Four hours a game, including pedestrian commute time. The rest of the time,

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Militant Bicyclists

2012-08-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Is it any surprise that most cyclists indentify as atheists and liberals?” (read more) Hat tip to Federico Villalba.

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Music Under the Influence

2012-08-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Have y’all been to Music Under the Stars lately? Of course you haven’t, because they’re not letting you bring your

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What if the baseball team sucks?

2012-07-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

What if the team sucks? Because (spoiler alert), they do. (read more)

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Strike One!

2012-07-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m sure they mean well, those private investors and city politicians who want to build a baseball stadium in downtown

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Seven a.m.

2012-07-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I hate vodka. I hate the icepick headaches that are the signature feature of vodka hangovers. I hate not knowing

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Mexican kidnap cops caught on video

2012-06-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story about some policia in Jalisco, barging into a hotel and picking up three men who were later

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Dancin’ Boots

2012-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I really love your hair, not many women can pull that off, she says. I smile and thank her, my

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American Exceptionalism?

2012-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You do not have to believe in the superiority of your country over others to love your country. The globalization

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Cartel rumors or brain tumors?

2012-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story comes to us from the Arizone Republic via Molly Malloy at Frontera List. “Although the grisly deaths were

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The 16th District from 20,000 feet

2012-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Economist wrote about the 16th Congressional District of Texas primary campaign between Beto O’Rourke and Silvestre Reyes. While they

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El Clausurado

Trouble in Paradise

2012-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

  Last week I went to Juarez to see which bars were being closed. (read more)

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Never let a crisis go to waste

2012-04-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The building that burned down on a Friday in April was not particularly important, despite the gnashing of teeth over

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In Defense of Flea Markets

2012-04-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

  Admittedly, they could have come up with a better name for the flea market. Over the past decade, various

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