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Diminishing El Paso

2025-10-06 Rich Wright Economic Development, population, Slider, Urban Planning Leave a comment

Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue

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Ouch!

2025-10-03 Rich Wright El Paso Times, Media, Slider One comment

The El Paso Times delivered its mandated circulation report on page 5A of Thursday’s dead tree edition, and it’s not

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Juarez’ 2025 Bullfighting Season

2025-10-01 Rich Wright Culture, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider One comment

While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at

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The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown

2025-09-30 Rich Wright Deck Park, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 7 comments

Downtown El Paso is already barely accessible. What effect will 5 years of freeway and deck park construction have on

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Social Engineering Chuco-Style

2025-09-26 Rich Wright City Management, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

I live in a neighborhood I call Barrio Heights. Barrio Heights is below Rim Road, close to El Paso High.

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You and the Juarez Walking Tour

2025-09-22 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Juarez Walking Tour, Slider 2 comments

I’ve been offering Juarez Walking Tours to anyone willing to pay my meager fee for more than 10 years. Over

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Paul Foster is Selling Land in his Campo del Sol Development

2025-09-19 Rich Wright City Council, El Paso Water, Public Service Board, Slider, Water, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council unanimously approved an amendment to a 2020 incentives agreement to allow for the sale

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“The Eyes of Chihuahua”

2025-09-18 Rich Wright Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider, Surveillance Leave a comment

Here’s a story from TexasObserver.org about the Torre Centinela, that surveillance tower going up in downtown Ciudad Juarez that will

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El Paso Matter’s Fight for Higher Taxes

2025-09-15 Rich Wright Deck Park, Economic Development, El Paso Matters, Slider 2 comments

Two recent articles on ElPasoMatters.com portray El Paso as a low-tax city. Here’s a snippet from one of the pieces:

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Heath Haussaman on Project Jupiter

2025-09-11 Rich Wright Economic Development, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park One comment

Here’s veteran journalist Heath Haussaman with a deep dive into the $165 billion Project Jupiter that’s proposed for Sunland Park.

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Leave It to the D.A.

2025-08-26 Rich Wright District Attorney, El Paso Police Department, James Montoya, Slider One comment

Here’s one of those stories from the El Paso Times that made the front page of the dead tree edition

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Retrovision: El Paso Police Are Taser Happy and the El Paso Times Doesn’t Want You to Know It

2025-08-25 Rich Wright El Paso Police Department, El Paso Times, Slider Leave a comment

This story originally appeared on 8 December 2022. Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of

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Another Mental Health Crisis Homicide at the Hands of EPPD

2025-08-23 Rich Wright Dionne Mack, El Paso Police Department, Slider Leave a comment

The El Paso Police Department has a thing for killing people having mental health crises. Check out this latest body-cam

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An Economic Forecast

2025-08-22 Rich Wright El Paso, Juarez, Slider, The Economy Leave a comment

Here’s part of an editorial from El Diario de Juarez:1 Ayer informamos que, a tasa mensual, la producción de la

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The Purge is Coming

2025-08-21 Rich Wright Immigration, Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a video about McAllen, Texas. El Paso might not be next, but it’s on the list.

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King David

2025-08-13 Rich Wright Fiction, Slider Leave a comment

From up above, from a rooftop, or an upper window, they could be dancing. The hip hop thumps from the

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Retrovision: Billares El Cid

2025-08-12 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider 5 comments

This post originally appeared on 12 October 2017. I’m not sure if the information is current. Like everything else in

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We Don’t Need No Stinking Ethics

2025-08-11 Rich Wright City Council, Deck Park, Ethics, Slider One comment

Isn’t it a violation of the City’s ethics rules for Mayor Renard Johnson to support the deck park when he

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The History and Geography of Cartels in Juarez

2025-08-08 Rich Wright Crime, History, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s an insightful portrait of the criminal organizations in Ciudad Juarez, their histories, and their geographic domains, from InsightCrime.org1: If

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What Redistricting Means to El Paso

2025-08-07 Rich Wright Politics, Slider, Uncategorized 2 comments

From KTSM.com: The El Paso City Council has officially taken a stance to oppose Texas Republican legislators’ proposed redistricting map.

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