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Let’s Put the Deck Park to a Vote

2025-08-04 Rich Wright Deck Park, Elections, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider Leave a comment

Isn’t that the way things get decided in a democracy? I know, elections are expensive, but not as expensive as

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Garbage Revisited

2025-07-29 Rich Wright Dumpsters, Environmental Services Department, Slider Leave a comment

Don’t you imagine that the City’s Environmental Services Department would love to get its hands on the local dumpster services?

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The Opportunity Costs of the Deck Park

2025-07-28 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 2 comments

The estimated cost of the deck park is more than $400 million before it’s done. The initial phase is projected

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El Paso Matters Can’t Be Bought Cheap

2025-07-24 Rich Wright City Council, El Paso Matters, Media, Renard Johnson, Slider 4 comments

An email I received from District 3 Representative Deanna M. Rocha contained this nugget: The City of El Paso proudly

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Retrovision: I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

2025-07-22 Rich Wright Deck Park, Slider, TxDOT 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 23 November, 2021. I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include

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Who Killed El Paso?

2025-07-21 Rich Wright ballpark, Economic Development, population, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 5 comments

El Paso’s population growth used to be robust. Right up till 2012. From 2010 to 2012, the population of the

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La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez

2025-07-17 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider 7 comments

You’d have to be older than I am to remember La Fiesta in downtown Juarez, and I’m pretty old. La

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Beasts of Burden

2025-07-14 Rich Wright Fiction, Slider 2 comments

by Rich Wright He wears a pistol on his ankle and carries a condom in his billfold. He never uses

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The Great Trumpini

2025-07-13 Rich Wright Politics, Slider Leave a comment

From a July 12, 2025 article at APNews.com:  President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he’s levying tariffs of 30% against the European Union and

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Dystopia, USA

2025-07-08 Rich Wright Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

Imagine masked U.S. government agents kidnapping people off the street and sending them to concentration camps. Dystopian fiction? Nah. It’s

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Watching the Watchers

2025-07-02 Rich Wright Law Enforcement, Mexico, Slider, Surveillance Leave a comment

I told you about the Torre Centinela that’s going up in downtown Juarez. Well, Juarez isn’t the only city in

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EPEC’s Rate Increase

2025-06-30 Rich Wright Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, El Paso Electric Company, Slider One comment

In this ElPasoMatters.com post, Diego Mendoza-Myers writes about EPEC’s plans to build out its system and what that means for

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El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

2025-06-23 Rich Wright El Paso Electric Company, Slider One comment

Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation

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“The First Livestreamed Genocide”

2025-06-21 Rich Wright Slider, War Crimes Leave a comment

From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted

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I Don’t Like Bullies

2025-06-20 Rich Wright Politics, Slider 2 comments

On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not

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Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

2025-06-18 Rich Wright Bridge of the Americas, Mexico, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision

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Dead People

2025-06-13 Rich Wright Drugs, Juarez, Marijuana, Slider 2 comments

I am of an age where I know lots of dead people. Some, of course, have been dead for a

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El Paso is a Small Town

2025-06-02 Rich Wright El Paso Times, Media, Slider 3 comments

Today’s front page headline of the dead tree edition of our English almost-daily newspaper is “Five new restaurants to try

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El Paso 23rd Biggest City in the U.S.?

2025-05-30 Rich Wright ballpark, Deck Park, population, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

From ElPasoMatters.org: The population in El Paso’s city limits grew by 150 people between 2023 and 2024, continuing a decade-long

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CRRUA Update: State of New Mexico Sues

2025-05-29 Rich Wright CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, Water Leave a comment

From SourceNM.com: New Mexico’s environment department on Wednesday announced it has filed a lawsuit against the Camino Real Regional Utility

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