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It’s Like They Quit Caring

2018-11-19 elrichiboy Breaking News, Media, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a screen grab I just took of the El Paso Times Opinion page. It looks like El Paso’s English

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It’s All Good Ol’ Boys

2018-09-16 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Law Enforcement, Media, Slider One comment

The El Paso Police Department has a pretty sketchy record of self-policing. This week, the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal

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The “Arena” Looms Large

2018-09-12 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Downtown, Media, The Arena 4 comments

This week the El Paso Inc. tries to demonstrate that El Pasoans knew all along that the Multi Purpose Performing

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Rat Park and Addiction

2018-09-04 elrichiboy Media, Perspectives, Science, Slider 3 comments

What are the factors that contribute to drug abuse and addiction? We are largely a country of loners. Isolated, by

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Que se descanse en paz

2018-07-02 elrichiboy Breaking News, Juarez, Media Leave a comment

If you only visit the English media here in El Paso, you might not know that there’s a city across

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“The Future of Cities”

2018-06-28 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Media One comment

On Wednesday the Wall Street Journal came out with a section called “The Future of Cities.” The lead story was

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Educating the Electorate

2018-06-05 elrichiboy Education, Elections, Media 2 comments

The media aren’t going to do it. Have any of them reported on El Paso’s abysmal population growth rate? Have

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The Link Policy is Back

2018-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Media One comment

That pesky “Link Policy” is back on the City’s website. Aesthetically, it clutters up the website’s menu. Practically, I’m not

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Uh Oh, Here’s Bad News

2018-05-22 elrichiboy ballpark, Media, Taxes, TIRZs Leave a comment

See that up there is a screen shot I grabbed off of KVIA’s website. The Hunt Family Foundation is advertising

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It’s All In The Spin

2018-04-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Media, Slider 2 comments

Here’s the headline and lede of a story on KVIA: El Paso makes top 125 list of best places to

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All The News That May or May Not Exist

2018-02-07 elrichiboy Media, School Districts Leave a comment

Did you see the latest dustup over there at EPISD? From KVIA: EPISD District 7 Trustee Mickey Loweree said she

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DavidK vs. The El Paso Times

2018-02-06 elrichiboy Media, Meta Blog 3 comments

DavidK laments what he perceives as bias in the El Paso Times coverage of the local political scene, in this

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The American Collapse

2018-01-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Media, National Policy, Perspectives, World One comment

Here’s a disturbing essay from Medium that details symptoms of America’s collapse. When we take a hard look at US

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All The News That Fits Our Agenda

2018-01-11 elrichiboy Media, Politics, Slider 2 comments

Back in 2009, El Paso Inc. ran an interview titled Q and A with Woody Hunt The Real Cost of

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The Last Days of Jason Rabedeaux from ESPN

2017-12-28 elrichiboy Media, Slider, sports, World News 4 comments

Here’s a story about former UTEP basketball coach Jason Rabedeaux’s career and final days coaching the Saigon Heat. JASON RABEDEAUX

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A New Verse to the Same Old Song

2017-11-13 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Media, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

Remember last week I asked “Is the City Paying Companies to Not Leave Town?” Well, Vic Kolenc of the El

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Mexican Tiger Trap

2017-11-03 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Media, Mexico One comment

La Polaka, Periodismo en Caliente, reports a wave of retaliatory violence in Western Chihuahua following the arrest of the drug

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The CBC on the Mennonite Connection

2017-10-21 elrichiboy Media, Mexico, Video Leave a comment

Here’s a show from the Canadian news program The Fifth Estate about our friendly neighbors to the south, the Mennonites,

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Dirty John in the L.A. Times

2017-10-07 elrichiboy Media, World News Leave a comment

Here’s a nice piece of lurid journalism from the Los Angeles Times, a six part series called Dirty John: Their

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Finally, A Good News Story About El Paso

2017-09-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Media, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Here’s a story in Texas Monthly that paints El Paso as an enlightened community. Fighting the developers. Duranguito and the

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