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  • Trouble in ChucoTown

    2022-07-07 Rich Wright

    The trouble with City Government is that the City Manager thinks that his job is to protect and promote the bureaucracy that is the City

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  • The Border Wager: Santa Teresa’s Pot of Gold

    2022-08-10 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson In the annals of border history, U.S.-Mexico relations and global commerce, Ciudad Juárez has often played a pivotal role. Nudged against El

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  • Traffic Studies

    2022-08-09 Rich Wright

    “It’s the most congested part of the freeway,” they say. I took that picture up there this morning (Tuesday, August 9, at about 8:10 am).

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  • Big Fibbers at City Hall Redux

    2022-08-08 Rich Wright

    Somehow I missed the point of City Manager Tommy Gonzalez’ press release about the new budget. When Tommy Gonzalez was talking about the $20 million

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  • Can I Give You a Yard Sign?

    2022-08-06 elrichiboy

    Do you live in, or near, District 8? Do you have a business in District 8? (The district boundaries recently changed. You can see which

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  • Big Fibbers at City Hall

    2022-08-04 Rich Wright

    In a recent guest column at ElPasoTimes.com, Representatives Hernandez, Salcido, and Rodriguez wrote the following: The city of El Paso has not increased property taxes

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  • More Harder Times

    2022-08-04 elrichiboy

    From USAToday.com: Gannett, owner of USA TODAY and local news operations in 45 states, [including the El Paso Times] reported Thursday that it would undertake

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  • Defending the Big River

    2022-07-28 Kent Paterson

    by Kent Paterson Every river searches for the seaEvery life runs its own destinyCanyons white and wild stretches calm and mildCutting through the stones of

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  • Why Your Taxes Are So High

    2022-07-15 Rich Wright

    Because the City won’t stop spending money. While we’re catching our breath (this is, after all, an election year) the City is making plans to

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  • What Gives?

    2022-07-13 Rich Wright

    Sunday I went to Cloudcroft. The high temperature was 72. The low was 58. You should try it. Nowhere on the whole trip was gasoline

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  • Hard Times

    2022-07-12 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times didn’t come out with a print edition on the 4th of July. They stopped printing a Saturday edition a while ago.

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  • Cary Westin’s Lucrative Retirement

    2022-07-07 Rich Wright

    You’ll remember that back in May, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin retired from his position as Deputy City Manager for the City of El Paso. To

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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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100 Things

2013-11-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My friend Tony Testa posted this on Facebook. It’s never too late to learn.

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The Donkey and the Well: A Parable

2013-11-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

An old donkey fell in a well. The donkey was old, and the well was dry, so the farmer decided

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Paul Krugman’s New Normal

2013-11-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The problem, Mr. Krugman points out, riffing on Larry Summers’ speech to the IMF, is that we’re not all buying

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Worse Than ASCAP

2013-11-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in El Diario, people are killing vendors of pirated CD’s and DVD’s on Juarez streets. A

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