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  • Shut Your Pie Hole

    2022-05-24 elrichiboy

    How about this nugget from the El Paso Times today: The El Paso City Council voted Monday to let stand Mayor Oscar Leeser’s veto last week

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  • Retrovision – El Paso, a Metaphor

    2022-05-23 elrichiboy

    This post originally appeared on 30 July 2015. El Paso is like that really nice girl with the shitty boyfriend who treats her badly and

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  • Another Salvo in the War on Taxpayers

    2022-05-18 Rich Wright

    The City of El Paso, the El Paso Chamber of Commerce, and MountainStar Sports group are waging a class war against El Paso’s working class,

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  • “Justicia Fronteriza Denounces Extension of Tommy Gonzalez’ Contract”

    2022-05-18 Rich Wright

    The following is a Press Release from Justicia Fronteriza: Justicia Fronteriza PAC is extremely disappointed, but not surprised that a majority of City Council representatives

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  • “City Manager’s Contract Extension is Not Sound Governance”

    2022-05-17 elrichiboy

    The following is a press release from the Community First Coalition of El Paso: The El Paso City Council’s action to extend the City Manager’s

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  • Stockholm Syndrome?

    2022-05-16 Rich Wright

    Did you see the latest edition of ABC-7 Xtra? I have to wonder what our City Council members are thinking. Right now, as I write

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  • Retrovision – El Paso, (Temporary) Home of the Carpetbaggers

    2022-05-13 Rich Wright

    This post originally appeared on 10 February 2021. You know why there’s so little crime in El Paso? Because we all live here. We’re not

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  • Tommy Gonzalez Has Been Cheating On Us

    2022-05-11 Rich Wright

    You’ve heard the news. El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez is among three other finalists being considered for city manager in Frisco, Texas. They posted

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  • Warren Buffett — The Rich Are Winning the Class War

    2022-05-10 Rich Wright

    He said it in a New York Times article back in 2006. “There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said, “but it’s my class, the

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  • The Wider War

    2022-05-06 Rich Wright

    How about this, from the NYTimes.com: The United States has provided intelligence about Russian units that has allowed Ukrainians to target and kill many of

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  • Is This What Corruption Looks Like?

    2022-05-03 Rich Wright

    From ElPasoTimes.com: The [El Paso City Council] voted to hire a San Francisco-based architecture firm to provide an updated cost of the proposed arena, as

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  • Adios, Club Quince

    2022-04-29 elrichiboy

    Reliable sources claim that the venerable Club Quince, the boutique bar under the Juan Gabriel mural in downtown Juarez, will have its last last call

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Roseanne Barr on Drugs

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The War on Drugs: Now, after all these years, it even sounds dumb and tiresome. Here we are on our

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What’s wrong with El Paso

2012-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I like El Paso. What about all those people saying it’s not good enough for them? (read more)

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Except for the shooting, the war is over.

2012-08-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“I’d go to Juarez,” the straw man said, “except for all the killing.” (read more)

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Does El Paso need downtown development?

2012-08-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

All across American, downtowns are in trouble. They’re dead, or dying. It’s epidemic. When happy motoring drew middle class Americans

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Eeewww

2012-08-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “While being booked last Thursday night at the Doña Ana

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When machetes attack

2012-08-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “Las Cruces Police detectives learned that Gower was at 810

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The economic impact of a downtown baseball stadium

2012-08-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Are they crazy? Seventy-one games a year. Four hours a game, including pedestrian commute time. The rest of the time,

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Militant Bicyclists

2012-08-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Is it any surprise that most cyclists indentify as atheists and liberals?” (read more) Hat tip to Federico Villalba.

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Music Under the Influence

2012-08-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Have y’all been to Music Under the Stars lately? Of course you haven’t, because they’re not letting you bring your

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What if the baseball team sucks?

2012-07-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

What if the team sucks? Because (spoiler alert), they do. (read more)

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Strike One!

2012-07-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m sure they mean well, those private investors and city politicians who want to build a baseball stadium in downtown

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Seven a.m.

2012-07-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I hate vodka. I hate the icepick headaches that are the signature feature of vodka hangovers. I hate not knowing

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Mexican kidnap cops caught on video

2012-06-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story about some policia in Jalisco, barging into a hotel and picking up three men who were later

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Dancin’ Boots

2012-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I really love your hair, not many women can pull that off, she says. I smile and thank her, my

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American Exceptionalism?

2012-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You do not have to believe in the superiority of your country over others to love your country. The globalization

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Cartel rumors or brain tumors?

2012-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story comes to us from the Arizone Republic via Molly Malloy at Frontera List. “Although the grisly deaths were

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The 16th District from 20,000 feet

2012-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Economist wrote about the 16th Congressional District of Texas primary campaign between Beto O’Rourke and Silvestre Reyes. While they

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El Clausurado

Trouble in Paradise

2012-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

  Last week I went to Juarez to see which bars were being closed. (read more)

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Never let a crisis go to waste

2012-04-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The building that burned down on a Friday in April was not particularly important, despite the gnashing of teeth over

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In Defense of Flea Markets

2012-04-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

  Admittedly, they could have come up with a better name for the flea market. Over the past decade, various

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  • Los Lobos with Cafe Tacvba – “La Venganza de los Pelados”
  • Shut Your Pie Hole
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  • “A Street With No Name”
  • Kris Kristofferson and Friends – Why Me Lord

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