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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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  • Mexico: Where Women Increasingly Rule

    2026-02-07 Kent Paterson

    by Kent Paterson In case you haven’t noticed, political power in Mexico is increasingly in the hands of women. That reality was proudly stated by

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  • MEXICO’S FORCED LAND CESSIONS TO THE UNITED STATES

    2026-02-02 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martínez The year 2026 (on February 2) marks the 178th anniversary of the signing of one of the most important treaties in

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  • Gone Fishing

    2026-01-28 J. Eugenio Cotera E.

    by J. Eugenio Cotera E. As a young kid growing up in the vast and sparse Chihuahuan Desert, I believed that fish simply materialized wherever

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  • The Anti-Immigrant Family Judge

    2026-01-27 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org: Attorneys with the immigration advocacy group Estrella del Paso last month asked that District Court Judge Marlene Gonzalez recuse herself

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Naysayers, Malcontents, and Liars

2018-02-26 elrichiboy ballpark, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 5 comments

Former City Council Representative and Mayoral Candidate and current member of the board of the Downtown Management District Steve Ortega,

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy

2018-02-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a Hitchcock film that may have escaped your notice. Here’s the plot summary from IMDb: A serial murderer is

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Golf Clubs

2018-02-23 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships One comment

Perhaps you saw this story in the El Paso Times about the public golf courses in the city. El Paso’s

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Driving Down the Road, Gazing in the Rearview Mirror

2018-02-22 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Education, Elections, The Arena 4 comments

I get it. The billionaires are putting a lot of money into spiffing up downtown. And we better jump on

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It’s All About the Spin

2018-02-21 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships 4 comments

Did you see this story about El Paso’s newest Public Private Partnership? From the El Paso Times: Fivestars, a San

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Quality of Life

2018-02-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

If you found fifty bucks on the street, what would you do with it? Pay down your credit card debt?

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The City of El Paso’s New Link Policy Has Nothing To Do With Municipal Golf Courses

2018-02-19 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Politics, Slider 3 comments

Last week I created a link to the Interim Director of Municipal Financial Operations’ presentation to City Council, which contained

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Sunday Matinee: Detour

2018-02-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

If this movie were any more noir, it would be a parody of itself. Here’s what IMDb had to say

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City of Dust: Trouble in Mind

2018-02-16 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

I’ve been listening to a lot of Janis Joplin lately because of a dead woman. She died in late middle-age

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Death and Taxes

2018-02-14 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Here’s a chart I lifted from a presentation the City’s Interim Director of Municipal Financial Operations gave to City Council

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Survey Says:

2018-02-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

Did you see the results of this survey that KVIA did on putting the arena in Duranguito? ABC-7 recently conducted

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Sunday Matinee: Patterns

2018-02-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 1956 movie with a script written by Rod Serling. It’s about office politics, and naked capitalism. Watch this

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All The News That May or May Not Exist

2018-02-07 elrichiboy Media, School Districts Leave a comment

Did you see the latest dustup over there at EPISD? From KVIA: EPISD District 7 Trustee Mickey Loweree said she

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Okay, I’m Running.

2018-02-06 elrichiboy City Council 12 comments

Friday I filed a Campaign Treasurers Appointment for a run to be the City Council Representative for District 8. That

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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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