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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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  • A New Advertiser

    2022-08-11 Rich Wright

    Good news, everybody. The ballpark has a new advertiser. That should help offset some of the expense that the City has incurred propping up that

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  • Do they have a long term plan?

    2022-08-11 Rich Wright

    I mean the richest people in El Paso. The people who got us into this mess. Do they have a long term plan, besides building

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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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I say handball, you say rebote

2013-03-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In English we call it handball. In Spanish it’s rebote a mano con pelota dura, or rebote for short. They

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Buses to bars

2013-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Despite El Pasoans’ reluctance to take, or even talk about, the bus, Sun Metro seems complicit in a plot to

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El Paso’s Secret City Government Secret Emails

2013-01-14 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

What is the City hiding in their personal emails? A walking quorum? A narco-nexus? Jimmy Hoffa? Secret payoffs to the

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Were you violent? Here’s why.

2013-01-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There is a significant correlation between the use of leaded gasoline and incidences of violent crime. [L]ead emissions from automobiles

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Are you fat? Here’s why.

2013-01-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I heard this a year ago as we were slipping through the dappled shadows on Gavilan Canyon Road, listening to

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The Kentucky Club

2013-01-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Kentucky Club, just over the Santa Fe Street pedestrian bridge in Downtown El Paso, is easily El Paso’s most

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Trust the Church

2012-12-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Catholic Church, god bless them, are the official arbiters of morality, as far as they’re concerned. So it’s a

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Drug War Mexico and the Narcoeconomy

2012-12-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

A friend of mine who might know (and therefore should remain anonymous) says that the government in Mexico runs the

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Camping at Franklin Mountains State Park

2012-12-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Franklin Mountain State Park is reportedly the largest urban wilderness park in the continental United States. There’s no word

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El Paso’s Bleak Future: A Contrarian View

2012-12-26 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

If we want to attract businesses to El Paso, we have our work cut out for us. According to an

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Killer DIY Drone

2012-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This should scare you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jplh7uatr-E

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Can Juarez survive its extreme makeover?

2012-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Calle de la Paz is seven blocks long, two blocks south of Dieciseis de Septiembre in downtown Juarez. It’s western

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Breaking the Taboo

2012-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a good video about drug prohibition, narrated by Morgan Freeman.

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Street robots

2012-12-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For hours every day, the fake-brick sidewalk throbs with a pulse of humanity engaged in the willful act of living.

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Brand Tribalism in El Paso

2012-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In El Paso, we’re big on brands. We want to belong. We want to feel like we’re a member of

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The Class Cold War

2012-11-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“The important thing to understand now is that while the election is over, the class war isn’t. The same people

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Meanwhile, back at the lovely StageCoach Motel

2012-11-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This article in El Diario says a couple of fugitive sex offenders were arrested at the Stage Coach Motel on

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The voters have spoken.

2012-11-26 elrichiboy Economic Development Leave a comment

The City of El Paso will take on close to billion dollars in new debt over the next fifteen years,

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The Irony of Irony

2012-11-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“If irony is the ethos of our age — and it is — then the hipster is our archetype of

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Oops. Looks like I got it wrong again.

2012-10-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Option #1 Upon further review, it seems that the City’s Ordinance 017850 authorized the election about the ballpark based on

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

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