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  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

    2026-04-05 elrichiboy
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  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”

    2026-04-03 Rich Wright

    (Scene: Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon.) Secretary Pete Hegseth: . . . and that, gentlemen, is how we will end this war.

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  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

    2026-03-31 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Data centers are a burning issue in the Paso del Norte borderland of 2026. Plans to open a giant data center complex

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  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

    2026-03-22 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martinez Given the recent disturbing revelations about Cesar Chávez, it seems certain that the local Border Highway’s name will be changed.  Many

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  • “Hangover Square”

    2026-03-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Rise and Ruin of the Coca-Cola Family”

    2026-03-21 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso is Falling

    2026-03-13 Rich Wright

    The trusted institutions we count on are letting us down. The streets are crumbling. The water utility can’t keep the water flowing. Texas Gas Services

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  • The 13th Anniversary of the Killing of Daniel Saenz

    2026-03-08 Rich Wright

    Today is the 13th anniversary of the day that El Paso Police Department Officer Jose Flores shot and killed the handcuffed prisoner Daniel Saenz in

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  • Lucille Ball in “The Dark Corner”

    2026-03-08 elrichiboy
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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part Two: Preface and Postscript to “Black Sunday”

    2026-03-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson On a recent sunny day, tourists and locals on Puerto Vallarta’s ocean front boardwalk, the Malecon, watched intensely as a Mexican navy

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  • The Biggest Campaign of the Season

    2026-03-02 Rich Wright

    The biggest campaign of this election season isn’t taking place by any candidate on the ballot. The President of the University of Texas at El

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  • Economic Undevelopment

    2026-02-25 Rich Wright

    According to ElDiario.mx, El Paso lost 750 jobs in the last four months of 2025. Juarez lost 17,000 maquila jobs in all of 2025. That

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What The . . . ?

2018-08-22 elrichiboy Breaking News 2 comments

A UFO? Definitely. A flying saucer? Perhaps. Check out the picture that an avid reader (okay, actually the friend of

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Are Their Lips Moving?

2018-08-20 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, TIRZs One comment

El Paso Inc. this week had a nice feature on Hunt Companies’ development in Northwest El Paso. Have you been

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The Freeway Is Open

2018-08-19 Rich Wright Breaking News 2 comments

Or at least it will be momentarily. The work on the utility bridge is done. Now all we lack is

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief

2018-08-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

You’ve been good. Some of you have been very good. Others, not so much. You know who you are. For

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Where Am I?

2018-08-18 elrichiboy History, New Mexico 13 comments

A reader sent in this photo, and he’s looking to identify the location. Here’s what Phillip tells us: Westward bound

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Oye, Coño!

2018-08-18 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 6 comments

Have you been waiting for a good Cuban restaurant to open downtown? Wait no longer! Los Lopez Lopez just opened

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Toro!

2018-08-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 2 comments

Are you in the mood for a barbaric spectacle that’s steeped in tradition? Well, the election isn’t till November, but

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“Hold The Line”

2018-08-15 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

This from the El Paso Times this morning: The City Council rejected a utility sales tax on natural gas and

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Reasonable People

2018-08-14 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Slider One comment

I think reasonable people will agree that El Paso’s property taxes are too high. El Paso’s property tax rates are

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Sunday Matinee: Anon

2018-08-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a movie starring Clive Owen as a detective on an omniscient police force trying to stop a hacker who

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Retrovision: Who’s Driving This Truck?

2018-08-10 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 15 December 2016. It looks increasingly like City Staff are giving direction to City Council

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About That Great Wolf Lodge

2018-08-06 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Taxes 9 comments

The poobahs at Great Wolf got hornswoggled into opening one of their hotel water parks in El Paso. Have you

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Sunday Matinee: Pickup on South Street

2018-08-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Here’s a cold war era noir flick from back when the Soviet Union was a bad actor. How times have

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A Public Obscenity

2018-08-03 Rich Wright ballpark, City Council, Political Advertisement, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 5 comments

I think it’s obscene that the City of El Paso asks the working poor to pay for luxury amenities for

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Retrovision: The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2018-08-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Education, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes One comment

This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for

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Deus Ex Machina Redux

2018-08-02 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider One comment

When Representative Dr. Sam Morgan talked about Operational Security and him knowing things that we didn’t know, I hope he

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The Central Appraisal District Responds

2018-08-01 Rich Wright Cost of Living, Taxes 4 comments

Yesterday a loyal reader sent one of my articles to Dinah Kilgore, the Executive Director and Chief Appraiser of the

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Mo’ Taxes, Mo’ Problems

2018-07-31 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Taxes 2 comments

If you’re happy with the way things are going at City Hall, you’re not paying attention. The El Paso Times

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The Mayor’s Missing Emails

2018-07-30 elrichiboy City Council, Ethics, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

From the El Paso Inc.: El Paso Mayor Dee Margo appears to have sidestepped the city’s public information rules and

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Sunday Matinee: The Rover

2018-07-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 2 comments

Here’s a 2014 post-apocalyptic dystopia flick set in the Australian outback. No, not Mad Max. A different, more believable, post-apocalyptic

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