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  • Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-10-17 Rich Wright

    Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing organizations. In response to the

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  • Ninja Convention

    2025-10-16 Rich Wright

    The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade on Montana last night. Kudos

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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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  • The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises

    2025-10-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Amid the landscape of yucca and creosote plants, artificial intelligence-driven Project Stargate took shape this week just a tad up the road from

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  • Diminishing El Paso

    2025-10-06 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue to see little to moderate

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  • “Highway Dragnet”

    2025-10-05 elrichiboy
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  • “The 1916 [Irish] Rising of Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”

    2025-10-04 elrichiboy
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  • Ouch!

    2025-10-03 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times delivered its mandated circulation report on page 5A of Thursday’s dead tree edition, and it’s not pretty. On July 25, 2025,

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  • Juarez’ 2025 Bullfighting Season

    2025-10-01 Rich Wright

    While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at 8pm at the Alberto Balderas

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  • The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown

    2025-09-30 Rich Wright

    Downtown El Paso is already barely accessible. What effect will 5 years of freeway and deck park construction have on it? All those businesses who

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  • “Park Plaza 605”

    2025-09-28 elrichiboy
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  • Social Engineering Chuco-Style

    2025-09-26 Rich Wright

    I live in a neighborhood I call Barrio Heights. Barrio Heights is below Rim Road, close to El Paso High. The houses in Barrio Heights

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Why They Need an Arena

2017-10-23 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Here’s some interesting history to go with the prior post about eight million dollars a year that the El Paso

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The Master Plan

2017-10-22 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

How MountainStar Wants to Get You to Pay for Their Futbol Stadium Now it’s a futbol stadium. From the El

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Sunday Matinee: Zachariah

2017-10-22 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a rock and roll, “electric” western “comedy” from 1971, featuring Country Joe and the Fish, the James Gang, Don

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The CBC on the Mennonite Connection

2017-10-21 elrichiboy Media, Mexico, Video Leave a comment

Here’s a show from the Canadian news program The Fifth Estate about our friendly neighbors to the south, the Mennonites,

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Did You Feel That?

2017-10-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 6 comments

Was it a change in the weather, or is that what it feels like when the worm turns? Things are

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MountainStar Sports Group Soccer Survey

2017-10-17 elrichiboy MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, sports, The Arena 5 comments

MountainStar contracted with a sports marketing management consulting company to conduct a survey to gauge El Paso’s interest in their

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Better Bike Sharing

2017-10-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, How to Live in El Paso, Perspectives One comment

LimeBike recently raised $50 million in its second round of capital funding to expand its operations in the U.S. The

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Bloomberg on Jaime Bermúdez

2017-10-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a story from Bloomberg News on the Godfather of Maquilas, juarense Jaime Bermúdez. In Ciudad Juárez, along the U.S.-Mexico

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Sunday Matinee: Puppet on a Chain

2017-10-15 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Here’s a 1971 movie based on an Alistair Maclean novel. The story takes a cop from the U.S. to Amsterdam

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The Good . . .

2017-10-15 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

Ready One, nee the National Company for the Employment of the Disabled, the enterprise that former CEO Bob Jones drove

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The Bad . . .

2017-10-15 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

El Paso made a couple more lists this week. We’re number nine on the list of fastest warming cities, according

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The Ugly

2017-10-15 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

Finally, this weekend the El Paso Times ran a guest column bylined by our beloved mayor. Here’s a piece of

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Billares El Cid

2017-10-12 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez One comment

Like everything else in Mexico, like wealth and income and opportunity, the present is not equally distributed. In Mexico, the

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City of Dust: Ricardo, New Mexico

2017-10-12 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

The Ruins by the Rails Ricardo, New Mexico is yet another of the many towns that came to life seemingly

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The Local Economy Is Doing Great. Except Structurally.

2017-10-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, It's All Good 3 comments

Good news, everybody. The local economy is doing great. From the El Paso Inc.: What if someone said the U.S.

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Plan B

2017-10-10 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena One comment

Here’s a video from Vice.com and Nike, celebrating Chicano culture and the Cortez. The contributions of Los Angeles’s Chicanos to

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Embrace the Chaos

2017-10-10 GC Adams Uncategorized 2 comments

Watch this video on YouTube Last week I referenced bats in my head and since what follows struck a nerve

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We’re Going to Revitalize Ourselves to Death

2017-10-09 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

It’s time to stop pretending like El Paso’s biggest challenge is downtown revitalization. Here’s MountainStar Sports Group’s Executive Director Josh

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Sunday Matinee: Bridge of Spies

2017-10-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 2015 instant classic, Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.

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Judge Meachum’s Decision

2017-10-08 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena One comment

On October 4, the Honorable Amy Clark Meachum of the 250th Judicial District Court in Travis County, Texas, ruled on

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