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  • Watching the Watchers

    2025-07-02 Rich Wright

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

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  • EPEC’s Rate Increase

    2025-06-30 Rich Wright

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

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  • “Intrigue”

    2025-06-29 elrichiboy
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  • “Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

    2025-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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  • “The Spider”

    2025-06-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

    2025-06-21 elrichiboy
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  • “The First Livestreamed Genocide”

    2025-06-21 Rich Wright

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

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  • I Don’t Like Bullies

    2025-06-20 Rich Wright

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

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  • Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

    2025-06-18 Rich Wright

    Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision to eliminate it. From KVIA.com:

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  • STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso

    2025-06-16 Paul Dickerson

    by Paul Dickerson This morning, I was crossing the Puente Paso del Norte back to El Paso after running a pressing errand in Ciudad Juárez.

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  • “Outside the Law”

    2025-06-15 elrichiboy
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A Musical Interlude: Los Seven Teens de Ciudad Juarez

2018-05-23 elrichiboy Music 2 comments

These guys captured what we call today the El Paso sound. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About TIRZs*

2018-05-23 elrichiboy Economic Development, Taxes, TIRZs One comment

*That the City doesn’t want you to know. What is a Tax Increment Refinancing Zone, anyway? Here’s testimony given to

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“I am not a crook.”

2018-05-22 elrichiboy City Council One comment

From KTSM, in a piece titled City explains why Firth severance pay is ‘legally sound’: City Human Resources Director Linda

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Some Almost Lost Local History

2018-05-22 elrichiboy History Leave a comment

Here’s a story from CabinetMagazine.org of a religious colony founded outside of Las Cruces in the late 1800’s. The search

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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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“What Do Your City Tax Dollars Get You?”

2018-05-21 elrichiboy Taxes, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Here’s a little video from the City of El Paso, explaining where your tax dollars go. Watch this video on

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To What Ends?

2018-05-21 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Taxes, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Here’s the latest on the Tax Increment Refinancing Zone below Transmountain that the City is trying to ram through, from

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Sunday Matinee: Maigret in Montmarte

2018-05-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here, for your viewing entertainment, is teevee movie. Looks pretty decent, so far. Watch this video on YouTube Check it

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Rich Wright for District 8

2018-05-18 elrichiboy City of Dust, Political Advertisement 5 comments

I’m launching my campaign for City Council next Thursday, May 24, at 5:30 at Happy’s, in that new retail center

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More To Love

2018-05-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Check out this piece in the Washington Post, part of their You’re Going Where? series. I forgot my passport, but

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Tax Breaks for the Rich

2018-05-16 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Did you see this story on KVIA? El Paso City Council is considering establishing a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ)

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The Global Garbage Glut

2018-05-15 elrichiboy News, Taxes 3 comments

An alert reader sent me this story from the Wall Street Journal: The U.S. recycling industry is breaking down. Prices

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Susie Byrd on the Ballpark

2018-05-14 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Taxes 8 comments

There was this story from KVIA about the ballpark: It is year five for the El Paso Chihuahuas, and we

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Not John Cook

2018-05-14 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Elections 8 comments

El Chuqueño does not endorse political candidates (though there’s this one candidate for District 8 that the editorial board is

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The Wolf Lodge Water Park TIRZ

2018-05-14 elrichiboy City Council, Taxes One comment

This came out of the supporting materials for Tuesday’s City Council Meeting agenda, Item 16.2: On December 19, 2017, the

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Sunday Matinee: The Scar

2018-05-13 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a classic film noir that reinforces the adage that crime doesn’t pay. Watch this video on YouTube The cinematography,

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Protest Your Property Tax Valuation

2018-05-11 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Taxes 3 comments

There are lots of reasons that some people don’t protest their property tax valuations. Some people like the idea of

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The Shame of the City

2018-05-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Taxes 3 comments

Today is trash day in my neighborhood Barrio Heights. Last night, as I was falling to sleep, I realized that

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I’ve Got A (Conspiracy) Theory

2018-05-10 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Public Private Partnerships, Taxes One comment

Some conspiracy theories are a load of hooey, but people making deals out of the public eye are standard operating

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Mo’ Taxes

2018-05-09 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

The City offered up their newly minted Chief Financial Officer to defend our sky high tax rates. Here’s David Crowder

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