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  • Can’t We Just Wait?

    2025-11-09 Rich Wright

    Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people who are okay with the

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  • “The Sniper”

    2025-11-09 elrichiboy
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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

    2025-11-01 elrichiboy

    With music by David Romo.

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  • Bullfight Tonight!

    2025-10-31 Rich Wright

    The 2025 bullfighting season carries on tonight with another spectacle at the Aberto Balderas Bullring in downtown Juarez. Tonight’s headliner is El Zapata. From LaPrensa.org,

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  • Gregory Peck in “The Case of the Enchanted Prisoner”

    2025-10-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

    2025-10-25 elrichiboy
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  • “EL PASO, WHERE SUNSHINE SPENDS THE WINTER”

    2025-10-23 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey One hundred years ago, before El Paso simply advertised and referred to itself as the “Sun City,” the municipality boasted the slogan,

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  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

    2025-10-20 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright This article, or something very much like it, originally appeared on NewspaperTree.com in early May, 2008. There’s this brain drain argument that’s

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  • “The Other Woman”

    2025-10-19 elrichiboy
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  • “The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

    2025-10-18 elrichiboy

    Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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Future El Paso

2018-10-17 Rich Wright Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 6 comments

Isn’t anyone else concerned that the City of El Paso is operating on a plan that was largely conceived in

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From the People Who Brought You “It’s All Good”

2018-10-15 Rich Wright Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Economic Development, It's All Good, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

If you needed more proof of El Paso’s corrupt, inbred, good old boy network, consider this: Bill Burton, the mastermind

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Sunday Matinee: The Last Days of Frankie the Fly

2018-10-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a classic cheesy gangster movie from 1996. With Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, and Keifer Sutherland. Watch this video on

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Downtown Development Won’t Lower Your Property Taxes

2018-10-10 elrichiboy Slider, Taxes, TIRZs One comment

Downtown is covered by Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone #5. You remember those TIRZs. Here’s what the Texas Comptroller says about

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Sunday Matinee: Johnny Cash in Five Minutes to Live

2018-10-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.” And that’s pretty much the only reason to watch this 1961 rockabilly film noir. With some

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Sorry About That From the Dysfunction Faction

2018-10-07 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Hey, District 6 Representative Claudia Ordaz Perez says that some faction is trying to “cause dysfunction in City Government.” Well,

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Those Gratuitous TIRZs

2018-10-03 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Slider, TIRZs 2 comments

The City of El Paso is going out of its way to develop some land on the fringe of the

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound

2018-09-30 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 1945 classic, starring Ingrid Berman and Gregory Peck. Hitchcock’s cameo comes about 43 minutes in. He emerges from

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El Paso’s Finest

2018-09-26 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Law Enforcement, Slider 2 comments

Those boys in blue cannot buy a break. No, I’m not talking about the Cowboys. Read this story from KVIA:

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City Council’s Abuse of Executive Session

2018-09-25 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Ethics Leave a comment

The El Paso City Council abuses Executive Session. A lot. There are reasons to use Executive Session. The Texas Government

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Breaking the Law

2018-09-24 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider One comment

On August 21, 2018, at their regular meeting, City Council discussed the Mexican American Cultural Center in Executive Session. Their

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Sunday Matinee: Beat the Devil

2018-09-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a great movie with a great pedigree. Humphrey Bogart. Jennifer Jones. Gina Lollobrigida. Peter Lorre. Robert Morley. Directed by

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Toro Torito Torote

2018-09-20 elrichiboy Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

Tonight, Friday the 21st, in Juarez there’s another life-and-death barbaric spectacle taking place. Actually, several, probably. But I’m talking about

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A Bad Omen

2018-09-20 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Trolley One comment

This from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department: After nearly six decades in operation, including many years as the only

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Weather Report

2018-09-19 elrichiboy Breaking News Leave a comment

If the year has seemed unusually dry to you, it’s only because it has been. According to this graph from

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The City’s Decision Making Process

2018-09-19 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 2 comments

We saw it yesterday at City Council. City Council holds discussions behind closed doors, and then presents their decision to

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Cops Gone Wild!

2018-09-18 elrichiboy Breaking News, City Council, City Management, Law Enforcement, Slider 13 comments

I just came from a City Council meeting where I saw Jud Burgess get violently arrested. Jud was upset after

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Sunday Matinee: Garden of Evil

2018-09-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a pretty good Gary Cooper Western, with Richard Widmark, Susan Hayward, a little Rita Moreno, and Mexican actor Victor

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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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Maybe They’re Sick

2018-09-14 Rich Wright ballpark, City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena, TIRZs, Trolley, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

When you make decisions behind closed doors, without public input, you better be right. So far, our city hasn’t been

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