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  • El Paso is Falling

    2026-03-13 Rich Wright

    The trusted institutions we count on are letting us down. The streets are crumbling. The water utility can’t keep the water flowing. Texas Gas Services

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  • The 13th Anniversary of the Killing of Daniel Saenz

    2026-03-08 Rich Wright

    Today is the 13th anniversary of the day that El Paso Police Department Officer Jose Flores shot and killed the handcuffed prisoner Daniel Saenz in

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  • Lucille Ball in “The Dark Corner”

    2026-03-08 elrichiboy
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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part Two: Preface and Postscript to “Black Sunday”

    2026-03-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson On a recent sunny day, tourists and locals on Puerto Vallarta’s ocean front boardwalk, the Malecon, watched intensely as a Mexican navy

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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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Abdou Diary

2016-10-27 elrichiboy Art, Downtown, How to Live in El Paso, Slider One comment

by Hope Wright I’d like to tell you that I’ve puked in every bathroom in the Abdou Building. But that

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Happy Days are Here Again!

2016-10-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Good news, El Paso. All that economic development we’ve been planning for is starting to pay off. According to this

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Downtown Diary, the Last One: Part 2

2016-10-25 elrichiboy Art, Downtown Leave a comment

Jenni Burton had a weekly column in NewspaperTree from 2004 to 2007. Maybe longer. This month she moved out of

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WJUC Highlights Video

2016-10-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s are the freshest highlights of the finals of the World Junior (U 20) Ultimate Championship, in Poland. Fresh as

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El Paso Unified School District

2016-10-25 elrichiboy School Districts, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

The El Paso Independent School District is pushing their “innovation” as an enticement to support their upcoming $669 million bond

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Public Office? We shouldn’t even let them use public restrooms.

2016-10-25 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Last week City Council voted to kick poor people out of their homes so rich people could watch basketball from

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Downtown Diary: The Last One

2016-10-24 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso One comment

Jenni Burton had a weekly column in NewspaperTree from 2004 to 2007. Maybe longer. This month she moved out of

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Not on fire, just smoldering

2016-10-24 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

In an ongoing effort to “inform” the voters, someone posting on Facebook as EPISD Board Member Susie Byrd claimed that,

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The $669 Million Question

2016-10-22 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes 4 comments

Originally published way back on 7 September 2016 The El Paso Independent School District wants us to give them $669

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Don’t Buy Your Season Tickets Just Yet

2016-10-22 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 4 comments

Our City Council on Tuesday past voted unanimously to approve the site of the downtown arena, even if it required

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I guess somebody noticed.

2016-10-21 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Slider, Taxes One comment

Mr. Bob Moore, editor of the El Paso Times, informed me via Facebook that the Specific Interest Committee Campaign Finance

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Jorge Talks

2016-10-21 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

In an interview with El Universal, Jorge, a purported chief in La Linea, the armed wing of the Juarez Cartel,

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Proper Printshop’s Art en Vivo: Chris Trian

2016-10-20 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s what Proper Printshop’s Facebook page says about Art en Vivo: Art en Vivo is a live screen printing project

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Do Western Refining’s Shareholders Know?

2016-10-20 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes, Uncategorized One comment

Corporate boards have a responsibility to their shareholders, and generally those shareholders expect the corporate boards to maximize profits. It’s

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There’s nothing wrong with EPISD that two thirds of billion dollars won’t fix. Well, hardly anything.

2016-10-20 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

This from the El Paso Times: The El Paso Independent School District is one of two Texas school districts that

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Contrabandistas

2016-10-19 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Here’s the latest news from the El Paso Times, dateline June 16, 1924: With only three shells, Threepersons grabbed Jara,

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Common Wisdom

2016-10-19 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

This is a partial text of a public comment made by Steve Strumer to El Paso City Council on 18

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Champions League

2016-10-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Are you one of those poor slobs who needs an excuse to day drink? Your salvation is at hand. Today

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Today’s Civics Lesson

2016-10-19 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

I learned yesterday that the City’s values are Integrity, Respect, Excellence, Accountability, and People. I learned that because they were

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Tomorrow is the City Council Meeting About that Stupid Arena

2016-10-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics 4 comments

The downtown arena is stupid. We don’t need it. We never needed it. And our elected officials aren’t telling us

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