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  • Trouble in ChucoTown

    2022-07-07 Rich Wright

    The trouble with City Government is that the City Manager thinks that his job is to protect and promote the bureaucracy that is the City

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  • The Border Wager: Santa Teresa’s Pot of Gold

    2022-08-10 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson In the annals of border history, U.S.-Mexico relations and global commerce, Ciudad Juárez has often played a pivotal role. Nudged against El

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  • Traffic Studies

    2022-08-09 Rich Wright

    “It’s the most congested part of the freeway,” they say. I took that picture up there this morning (Tuesday, August 9, at about 8:10 am).

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  • Big Fibbers at City Hall Redux

    2022-08-08 Rich Wright

    Somehow I missed the point of City Manager Tommy Gonzalez’ press release about the new budget. When Tommy Gonzalez was talking about the $20 million

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  • Can I Give You a Yard Sign?

    2022-08-06 elrichiboy

    Do you live in, or near, District 8? Do you have a business in District 8? (The district boundaries recently changed. You can see which

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  • Big Fibbers at City Hall

    2022-08-04 Rich Wright

    In a recent guest column at ElPasoTimes.com, Representatives Hernandez, Salcido, and Rodriguez wrote the following: The city of El Paso has not increased property taxes

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  • More Harder Times

    2022-08-04 elrichiboy

    From USAToday.com: Gannett, owner of USA TODAY and local news operations in 45 states, [including the El Paso Times] reported Thursday that it would undertake

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  • Defending the Big River

    2022-07-28 Kent Paterson

    by Kent Paterson Every river searches for the seaEvery life runs its own destinyCanyons white and wild stretches calm and mildCutting through the stones of

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  • Why Your Taxes Are So High

    2022-07-15 Rich Wright

    Because the City won’t stop spending money. While we’re catching our breath (this is, after all, an election year) the City is making plans to

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  • What Gives?

    2022-07-13 Rich Wright

    Sunday I went to Cloudcroft. The high temperature was 72. The low was 58. You should try it. Nowhere on the whole trip was gasoline

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  • Hard Times

    2022-07-12 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times didn’t come out with a print edition on the 4th of July. They stopped printing a Saturday edition a while ago.

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  • Cary Westin’s Lucrative Retirement

    2022-07-07 Rich Wright

    You’ll remember that back in May, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin retired from his position as Deputy City Manager for the City of El Paso. To

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Juarez’ Secret Police

2014-01-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There are a couple of interesting stories on the intertubes today about former police chief Julián Leyzaola’s secret police unit,

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More Good News: Antibiotics Are On The Way Out

2014-01-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an alarmist story from the BBC, about how we’re all going to get infections and die, because germs are

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The DEA’s Ties to Criminal Organizations

2014-01-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an article in El Diario, in Spanish, which was originally posted in El Universal. The story makes the unremarkable

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The Best Story About Ecuador on the Internet

2014-01-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Ecuador is widely touted on the internet as retirement Eden. Low prices, socialized medicine, and a relatively stable democracy have

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The Gift That Keeps on Giving: The Ongoing Open Records Law Suit

2014-01-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Y’all may be surprised that the City is still fighting to keep our elected officials personal emails secret, even if

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Glow-in-the-dark pigs

2014-01-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Are you having trouble finding your pig at night? Scientists in China have successfully bred glow-in-the-dark pigs using jellyfish DNA.

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U.S. Biggest Threat to World Peace

2014-01-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

We’re number 1, according to an international survey: The US has been voted as the most significant threat to world

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Mass Murderer Treated Better Than Hacker

2013-12-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Welcome to Denmark: An international media campaign is targeting the Danish legal system’s treatment of Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svarholm

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The Death of Prince and Nero’s

2013-12-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You may have read this story in the El Paso Times about The Westside Show Lounge closing. For years it

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The Stupidity of the Border Fence and the Militarization of the Border

2013-12-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a piece on Salon that highlights the stupidity of increased border security. Last week, John McCain gleefully announced that

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Greenwald: The Media are the Government’s Lapdogs

2013-12-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a summary of Glenn Greenwald’s address to a computer conference in Germany. “It really is the central view of

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What happens after you’re dead?

2013-12-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting interview with a doctor who specializes in bringing people back from the dead: There may be something

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Investigative Report: The Dangers of Juarez

2013-12-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I hope you read this story in the New York Times about how Juarez is coming back. It’s good to

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The Turbo Encabulator

2013-12-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Skip Tracing Ryan Mullen

2013-12-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story has everything. Skip tracing. Check printing machines that supply endless money. Yachts and Rolls Royces. I’m sure it

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How Americans See Mexico

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from El Diario editorializing on how Americans see Mexico (hence the title to this post): Speedy Gonzalez

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Internal Migration in Juarez

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story in El Diario reports that nearly 100,000 people have changed residences within Juarez because of increasing insecurity in

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Bruce Lee and the One Inch Punch

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

But maybe more impressive is Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchakus.

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The CIA, Smart Bombs, and the War Against the FARC in Colombia

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story about the CIA’s role in taking down the FARC insurgency in Colombia. The 50-year-old Revolutionary Armed

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Police Gone Bad

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a headline you don’t want to see in your local paper: Troopers: Kobuk policeman asked girl for sex in

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