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About the Arena

2023-01-03 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Economics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena One comment

Advocates say we need the arena as an engine of economic development. That’s not how economic development works. If you

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Retrovision: “How Quickly They Forget”

2023-01-02 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes One comment

This article originally appeared on 2022 August 31. I stumbled across this gem the other day. From the El Paso

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The Three Mummies: A New Year’s Ode to Ghost Voices

2023-01-01 Kent Paterson Juarez, Mexico, Slider One comment

By Kent Paterson They stand on an El Paso street like the shadowy, eerie artifacts of a forgotten ancient civilization.

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Quality of Life Much?

2022-12-30 Rich Wright Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 5 comments

Woody and Gayle Hunt are El Paso Inc.’s El Pasoans of the year, 2022. Here are couple of things that

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The 1930 Running of the Cerveza

2022-12-22 Bob Chessey History, Juarez, Slider 3 comments

by Bob Chessey A Tale of Pacing and Endurance Summer’s end in 1930 was proving to be a tough time

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THE BRIDGE OF STONES: A MIGRANT CHRISTMAS STORY

2022-12-20 Kent Paterson Immigration, Mexico, Migration, Slider 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Carefully treading a crossing of slippery stones strung across the shallow Rio Grande between Ciudad Juárez and

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A New Day

2022-12-20 Rich Wright City Council, Elections, Slider 2 comments

Three of the four candidates supported by the plutocrats Woody Hunt and Paul Foster lost their runoffs. Does this mean

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A Question of Eligibility

2022-12-15 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Corruption, Laura D. Prine, Politics, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Is Bettina Olivares eligible to serve as the City Representative for District 8? Here’s the part of the Municipal Code

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The Future of Downtowns

2022-12-09 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Downtown, Slider One comment

The City of El Paso (that is you, the taxpayer) is spending millions, or tens of millions, or hundreds of

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

2022-12-08 Rich Wright Chief Greg Allen, City Council, City Management, El Paso Police Department, El Paso Times, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of the El Paso Times: One night in October

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“The Specter of Nuclear War, Revisited (New Mexico, 2022)”

2022-12-02 elrichiboy Perspectives, Slider Leave a comment

This was written by a girl I get to sleep with sometimes: I’ve spent a lot of time in the

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The Latest Outrage

2022-11-28 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Arena, Veronica Escobar 5 comments

From CBS4Local: As CBS4’s John Purvis reported in a Tough Questions Special Report last week, the federal government’s planned expansion

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Tales from the Tour Bus: Blaze Foley Intro

2022-11-17 elrichiboy Slider, Tales from the Tour Bus Leave a comment
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60 Minutes – “Buses from the Border: New York strained by migrants caught in a broken system”

2022-11-16 elrichiboy Immigration, Slider, Venezuela Leave a comment
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City of Dust – The Albuquerque Rail Yards

2022-11-16 John Mulhouse City of Dust, Slider One comment

by John Mulhouse Train I Ride The Albuquerque Rail Yards are a massive complex sprawling over 27.3 acres and sitting

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Thank You.

2022-11-13 elrichiboy Elections, Slider 9 comments

Well, the election has come and gone and I’m not on that train. A lot of you have expressed condolences.

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Vice News – “From Texas to New York on a Migrant Bus”

2022-11-13 elrichiboy Migration, Slider Leave a comment
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The City’s ED Policy is a Mess

2022-11-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes One comment

No, not Erectile Dysfunction. That’s a separate discussion all together. Economic Development. The City’s Economic Development policies are designed to

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Election Night Viewing Party

2022-11-06 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Slider 5 comments

First I’d like to thank everyone who brought me this far in this year’s election. Thank you to the donors,

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District 8 Small Businesses Support Rich Wright

2022-11-05 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Slider 2 comments

They mean business! And they support Rich Wright for City Representative for District 8. And many more!

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