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  • Forget the Carpetbaggers. What about the Judases?

    2026-07-25 elrichiboy

    Say what you will about the carpetbaggers who come into El Paso and fleece the citizens and then move away. At least they have the

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  • Another Actor Suddenly Exits the Doña Ana County Political Stage

    2026-07-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Government in Doña Ana County is in turmoil. The shakeups continued this week as the Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners terminated

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  • How Government Works

    2026-07-22 Rich Wright

    Some people are talking a lot about the evils of socialism these days. None of the other isms are pure gold, either. Capitalism. Populism. Communism.

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  • “The Great Depression – America’s Biggest Economic Crisis”

    2026-07-18 elrichiboy
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  • “The Merry Gentlemen”

    2026-07-12 elrichiboy
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  • “The Siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC): How Archimedes Stopped Rome”

    2026-07-11 elrichiboy
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  • “Jigsaw”

    2026-07-05 elrichiboy
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  • Pay Raises for Everybody (But Not for You)

    2026-07-02 Rich Wright

    Our elected officials at the City (the Mayor and City Representatives) are getting 15% pay raises this year. The people at the City working for

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  • “Guilty Bystander”

    2026-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls”

    2026-06-27 elrichiboy
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  • F. E. Curry And Fate’s Vagary

    2026-06-25 Bob Chessey

    The 1923 trial of F. E. Curry is a tale of a lawman who, from performing official duties, became labeled a criminal and exemplifies the

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  • Golden Cobwebs from the Vault: El Paso’s Aborted Towers

    2026-06-17 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Up for a little historic sightseeing in West Side El Paso? If you happen to be driving west on North Mesa and

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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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Trolley News

2018-09-12 Rich Wright Slider, Trolley One comment

A couple of weeks ago I went to one of the “Trolley Safety Meetings.” The meeting was in the auditorium

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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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The Trouble With TIRZs

2018-09-11 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, TIRZs Leave a comment

The City of El Paso is proposing another TIRZ. TIRZ 13 will be in Northeast El Paso, up against the

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Sunday Matinee: The Wake of the Red Witch

2018-09-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Here’s a John Wayne movie you’ve never seen. The Wake of the Red Witch features John Wayne as a sea

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Does Your City Council Representative Deserve A Raise?

2018-09-06 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

To tell the truth, we don’t know. We can’t know. All the decisions are made out of the public eye.

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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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Open Government

2018-09-03 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Political Advertisement, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

According to Wikipedia, Open government is the governing doctrine which holds that citizens have the right to access the documents

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The Quiller Memorandum

2018-09-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a decent cold war era spy film, loaded with deceit and betrayal and Nazis and British agents. Watch this

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The Mayor On Wikipedia

2018-08-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you know that Mayor Margo has a Wikipedia page? It’s a little sparse. Maybe you could make some edits.

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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

2018-08-30 elrichiboy Meta Blog, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs 3 comments

As if to illustrate my point, my good friend Chuco Geek had this to say about my most recent article

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Cousin Lemp’s Whack-A-Mole Bad Habit

2018-08-29 Rich Wright Meta Blog, Slider, TIRZs 5 comments

There’s this fallacy circulating that TIRZ 12 means that only the people who buy land up there on the mountain

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Now, or Later?

2018-08-28 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Let’s take a stroll down memory lane. El Paso used to be a growing city. From 2010 to 2012, El

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The Quest for Continuity

2018-08-27 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Elections, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes One comment

Remember? They told us that hiring City Managers for ten years would provide “continuity.” The problem is compounded by our

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