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  • Fritz Lang’s “House by the River”

    2026-01-18 elrichiboy
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  • “The Gilded Age”

    2026-01-17 elrichiboy
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  • An “Unprecedented” Event

    2026-01-13 Rich Wright

    This from ElPasoTimes.com: It could be until mid-week when a boil water notice is lifted and water service is fully returned to normal after a

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  • The Primary Elections

    2026-01-12 Rich Wright

    I always vote. Every election. School boards. State judges. Railroad Commissioner. I have even gone to the fire station to make no selection in every

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  • “Between Midnight and Dawn”

    2026-01-11 elrichiboy
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  • “This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”

    2026-01-03 elrichiboy
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  • Shopping South El Paso Street

    2025-12-22 Rich Wright

    South El Paso Street is El Paso’s most vibrant street. In the daytime, South El Paso Street is what our city planners aspire to. Walkable,

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  • “Fire Maidens from Outer Space”

    2025-12-21 elrichiboy
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  • “White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”

    2025-12-20 elrichiboy
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  • Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact

    2025-12-17 Rich Wright

    Here’s another article critical about Project Jupiter. This critique is environmental. From Truthout.org: At the very Southeastern tip of New Mexico bordering Texas and Mexico,

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  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”

    2025-12-14 elrichiboy
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  • “Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”

    2025-12-13 elrichiboy
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More Businesses But Not More Business

2018-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, TIRZs Leave a comment

Here’s a graphic I lifted from the City’s website, detailing what kind of businesses the City is expecting to move

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The First Rule of Operational Security

2018-05-30 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, TIRZs Leave a comment

. . . is that you don’t talk about Operational Security. I bet that they’ve revoked Major Morgan’s security clearance

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The Link Policy is Back

2018-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Media One comment

That pesky “Link Policy” is back on the City’s website. Aesthetically, it clutters up the website’s menu. Practically, I’m not

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“OpSec”

2018-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

That’s the phrase District 4 Representative Sam Morgan used to justify his vote for TIRZ 12 at yesterday’s City Council

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El Paso Grows By Four Tenths of One Percent

2018-05-30 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects Leave a comment

According to estimates just released by the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of the City of El Paso grew by

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The Bubble

2018-05-29 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 7 comments

We all live in our own bubbles. We hang out with people who think like us and dress like us

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Retrovision: More On Dwntwn

2018-05-28 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 4 comments

This article originally appeared on November 11, 2013. By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about

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Sunday Matinee: Den of Thieves

2018-05-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 2018 heist movie starring Fiddy Cent and a bunch of other cats you’re supposed to know. Watch this

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Ultimate College Nationals Live Stream

2018-05-26 elrichiboy sports Leave a comment

Maybe you were going to do some yard work this weekend. Maybe you were going to re-primer your jeep. You

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Champions League Final Saturday! Updated!

2018-05-26 elrichiboy sports Leave a comment

Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid take on Mohamed Salah and Liverpool Saturday at 12:45 in the finals of the Champions

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Retrovision: Can El Paso Go Bankrupt?

2018-05-24 elrichiboy Retrovision, Slider, TIRZs One comment

This article originally appeared more than four years ago, on July 30, 2014. I mean, we’re not like other towns.

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Rich Wright for District 8 Campaign Kickoff Party Thursday, May 24

2018-05-24 elrichiboy City Council, Political Advertisement One comment

We’re celebrating the launch of our campaign for District 8 at 5:30 today at Happy’s Barley and Vine, at the

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That Children’s Museum Will Be Free, Right?

2018-05-24 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes One comment

Did you hear that the City of El Paso, along with some private investors, are going to build a Children’s

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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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