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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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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part One: Hurricane Mencho

    2026-02-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Fear, hunger, thirst and uncertainty. That’s what folks in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco lived through on February 22, now undoubtedly one of the

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  • “Where Texas Begins”

    2026-02-21 Rich Wright

    The latest (several years old) tagline from Visit El Paso/the Convention and Visitors Center/Destination El Paso appears to be “Where Texas Begins”. Of course Texas

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  • Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall in “Confidential Agent”

    2026-02-15 elrichiboy
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  • “You’re Fired!”

    2026-02-14 Rich Wright

    Remember when Donald Trump’s tagline was “You’re fired!” One might think that he’d be pulling that old standard out again, what with the clown car

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  • “YEMEN: A Forgotten Earth Where Time Still Breathes”

    2026-02-14 elrichiboy
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  • “Love in a Man’s World”

    2026-02-08 elrichiboy
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“The Sunk Cost Fallacy”

2018-07-18 elrichiboy Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Here’s a piece from YouAreNotSoSmart.com on the Sunk Cost Fallacy, the idea that you’ve already invested so much in a

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Mountain Biking Lost Dog

2018-07-17 elrichiboy City Council, How to Live in El Paso, Slider, TIRZs, Video One comment

Here’s the City’s latest advertisement promoting some of the wonderful outdoor opportunities we can enjoy here in El Paso. Watch

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Chicano Batman At Music Under the Stars at Cohen on Sunday

2018-07-14 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

There are lots of ways to slice El Paso. Some El Pasoans like baseball and lazy river rides. And some

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El Paso’s Finest

2018-07-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement 3 comments

By now you’ve seen the El Paso Police Officer draw his weapon on those kids on the southside. In case

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About the Lost Dog TIRZ

2018-07-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs 6 comments

Here’s some informed speculation about TIRZ 12, the Lost Dog TIRZ. I think it has something to do with that

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More Lies From Our Friends In City Government

2018-07-12 Rich Wright Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs 2 comments

Here’s the City’s Economic Development Director spinning the TIRZs: City Council voted to approve the creation of Tax Increment Reinvestment

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Budget Theater

2018-07-12 Rich Wright City Council, Taxes Leave a comment

The City is in the midst of budget talks. Here’s the almost latest from the El Paso Times: Homeowners could

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Trump Takes Aim At Chiclets Vendors

2018-07-10 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Mexico, National Policy, News 4 comments

In order to level the playing field with ambulatory vendors on the bridge, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has restricted the

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Poop Doubt

2018-07-10 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube I recently discovered in a Barnes & Nobel restroom that nerds are terrible shots, which

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A Better Site for the Mexican American Cultural Center

2018-07-09 Rich Wright City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 9 comments

I think the City spends our money poorly. The City spends our money courting out-of-town businesses that compete with our

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Sunday Matinee: Kiss Me Deadly

2018-07-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s Mike Hammer at his glorious best. There’s a lot in this movie. A 1951 Jaguar XK 120 Roadster. A

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On The Road Again

2018-07-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development Leave a comment

According to this story in the USAToday online (which an alert reader directed me to), El Paso was the ninth

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How To Live in El Paso: Car-Camping

2018-07-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

This 4th of July we went car-camping. I’ve slept on the ground a lot. I used to backpack, hiking into

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The El Paso Street Debacle

2018-07-03 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development One comment

El Paso Street was El Paso’s first street. Mandy the Mule used to haul transnationals down the middle of the

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The Stanton Street Bike Lane

2018-07-03 elrichiboy City Council, Trolley 7 comments

To accommodate the trolley running down the middle of Stanton Street, the City choked it down to one lane each

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Still No Ethics (Revision)

2018-07-02 elrichiboy City Council, Ethics 2 comments

Remember this story from the El Paso Inc. that appeared way back on 19 March 2018? Members of the city’s

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What Are We To Do?

2018-07-02 elrichiboy Economic Development, Elections, Meta Blog, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 10 comments

You may ask yourself, “What are we going to do about the direction the City of El Paso is headed?”

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Que se descanse en paz

2018-07-02 elrichiboy Breaking News, Juarez, Media Leave a comment

If you only visit the English media here in El Paso, you might not know that there’s a city across

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Sunday Matinee: Black Widow

2018-07-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

This 1954 movie’s got Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, George Raft, and a mess of other stars of yesteryear, in a

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“The Future of Cities”

2018-06-28 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Media One comment

On Wednesday the Wall Street Journal came out with a section called “The Future of Cities.” The lead story was

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