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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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Our Local Public Private Partnerships

2018-02-06 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Slider Leave a comment

Public Private Partnerships are all the rage. The ballpark got one. The City is looking to develop luxury apartments on

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DavidK vs. The El Paso Times

2018-02-06 elrichiboy Media, Meta Blog 3 comments

DavidK laments what he perceives as bias in the El Paso Times coverage of the local political scene, in this

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Liquor Laws are for the Little People

2018-02-05 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 5 comments

The El Paso Inc. has a big write-up about Paul Foster’s renovation of the Plaza Hotel this week. The renovated

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Happy Birthday, Ida Lupino

2018-02-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Ida Lupino would have been 100-years-old today. She was the first woman to direct a film-noir, The Hitch-hiker, which I

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Sunday Matinee: Poolhall Junkies

2018-02-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Hey. Christopher Walken in a pool hustling movie. With Chazz Palmenteri and a little Rod Steiger. How bad could it

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Seth Godin on Arenas

2018-02-04 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, sports, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Seth Godin today talks about cities building stadiums in a column titled The Super Bowl is for Losers. So why

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Bravos vs. Dorados Today

2018-02-03 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, sports, What to Do Leave a comment

Bravos (the futbol team from Juarez) got a game today. Versus the Dorados of Sinaloa. 5 p.m. at the Benito

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Monarch’s Gone Vegan

2018-02-02 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, sponsored, What to Do Leave a comment

Maybe not completely. There’s probably still anchovies in their Worcestershire sauce, but if you ask real nice maybe they’ll strain

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Stuart Blaugrund’s Column in the Times

2018-02-02 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena One comment

Stuart Blaugrund “represented a group of Downtown business and property owners who successfully resisted the taking of their properties for

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Cinépolis (and a Mall) in Downtown Juarez

2018-02-01 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do 8 comments

Have you been to Juarez lately? Don’t lie to me. You have not. If you’ve crossed the border at all,

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Battle for the Claw

2018-02-01 elrichiboy Juarez, Mexico, World News Leave a comment

No, that’s not the new logo of the El Paso High School PTA. That’s the logo of the Gente Nueva

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That New Brothel Downtown

2018-01-31 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Gratuitous Snark 2 comments

God bless those nice people fixing up the Camino Real downtown. Here’s what the El Paso Times reported: The renovation

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Sunday Matinee: In Bruges

2018-01-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

The International Movie Database (IMDb, to the cognoscenti) claims that this movie is a comedy, but that’s a stretch. The

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The Other End of the Tunnel

2018-01-27 elrichiboy Juarez, Perspectives 4 comments

From the El Paso Times: The U.S. Border Patrol and other agencies are investigating a tunnel discovered Thursday after a

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Retrovision: Commercial Property Tax Valuations Down

2018-01-26 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes Leave a comment

[Our shrinking tax base isn’t a new thing. This article originally appeared on August 5, 2014. Since then, our city

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You Break It, You Buy It

2018-01-26 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 4 comments

Naw, we’ll just stick it to the taxpayers. Woody Hunt is a smart man. He’s studied public corruption. Here’s what

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Looking Back

2018-01-26 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes Leave a comment

Look at this chart from Interim Director of Municipal Financial Operations Robert Cortinas’ presentation last Tuesday: It shows the growth

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City of Dust: Lucy, New Mexico

2018-01-25 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

A Tale of Three Lucy’s Let’s get back on Highway 60 and drive just a little bit west of Negra

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The American Collapse

2018-01-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Media, National Policy, Perspectives, World One comment

Here’s a disturbing essay from Medium that details symptoms of America’s collapse. When we take a hard look at US

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Golden Gloves Boxing This Weekend

2018-01-25 elrichiboy sports, What to Do Leave a comment

The annual Golden Gloves Regional Boxing Tournament is this weekend at the County Coliseum. The fights start Friday at 7:00,

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