I live in a neighborhood I call Barrio Heights. Barrio Heights is below Rim Road, close to El Paso High.
Author: Rich Wright
You and the Juarez Walking Tour
I’ve been offering Juarez Walking Tours to anyone willing to pay my meager fee for more than 10 years. Over
Paul Foster is Selling Land in his Campo del Sol Development
From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council unanimously approved an amendment to a 2020 incentives agreement to allow for the sale
“The Eyes of Chihuahua”
Here’s a story from TexasObserver.org about the Torre Centinela, that surveillance tower going up in downtown Ciudad Juarez that will
El Paso Matter’s Fight for Higher Taxes
Two recent articles on ElPasoMatters.com portray El Paso as a low-tax city. Here’s a snippet from one of the pieces:
Heath Haussaman on Project Jupiter
Here’s veteran journalist Heath Haussaman with a deep dive into the $165 billion Project Jupiter that’s proposed for Sunland Park.
Leave It to the D.A.
Here’s one of those stories from the El Paso Times that made the front page of the dead tree edition
Retrovision: El Paso Police Are Taser Happy and the El Paso Times Doesn’t Want You to Know It
This story originally appeared on 8 December 2022. Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of
Another Mental Health Crisis Homicide at the Hands of EPPD
The El Paso Police Department has a thing for killing people having mental health crises. Check out this latest body-cam
An Economic Forecast
Here’s part of an editorial from El Diario de Juarez:1 Ayer informamos que, a tasa mensual, la producción de la
The Purge is Coming
Here’s a video about McAllen, Texas. El Paso might not be next, but it’s on the list.
King David
From up above, from a rooftop, or an upper window, they could be dancing. The hip hop thumps from the
Retrovision: Billares El Cid
This post originally appeared on 12 October 2017. I’m not sure if the information is current. Like everything else in
We Don’t Need No Stinking Ethics
Isn’t it a violation of the City’s ethics rules for Mayor Renard Johnson to support the deck park when he
The History and Geography of Cartels in Juarez
Here’s an insightful portrait of the criminal organizations in Ciudad Juarez, their histories, and their geographic domains, from InsightCrime.org1: If
What Redistricting Means to El Paso
From KTSM.com: The El Paso City Council has officially taken a stance to oppose Texas Republican legislators’ proposed redistricting map.
Let’s Put the Deck Park to a Vote
Isn’t that the way things get decided in a democracy? I know, elections are expensive, but not as expensive as
Garbage Revisited
Don’t you imagine that the City’s Environmental Services Department would love to get its hands on the local dumpster services?
The Opportunity Costs of the Deck Park
The estimated cost of the deck park is more than $400 million before it’s done. The initial phase is projected
El Paso Matters Can’t Be Bought Cheap
An email I received from District 3 Representative Deanna M. Rocha contained this nugget: The City of El Paso proudly