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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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  • “The Spider”

    2025-06-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

    2025-06-21 elrichiboy
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  • “The First Livestreamed Genocide”

    2025-06-21 Rich Wright

    From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves.

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  • I Don’t Like Bullies

    2025-06-20 Rich Wright

    On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not bullies anymore.” Wait a minute.

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  • Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

    2025-06-18 Rich Wright

    Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision to eliminate it. From KVIA.com:

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  • STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso

    2025-06-16 Paul Dickerson

    by Paul Dickerson This morning, I was crossing the Puente Paso del Norte back to El Paso after running a pressing errand in Ciudad Juárez.

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  • “Outside the Law”

    2025-06-15 elrichiboy
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  • “Colombian Cartels: Meet the World’s Biggest Drug Suppliers”

    2025-06-14 elrichiboy
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  • Dead People

    2025-06-13 Rich Wright

    I am of an age where I know lots of dead people. Some, of course, have been dead for a while. Hollywood. Asshole Bob. Jimmy

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  • “The League of Gentlemen”

    2025-06-08 elrichiboy
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  • “1964: The Year That Changed America”

    2025-06-07 elrichiboy
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It’s Only (Your) Money

2016-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Law Enforcement One comment

Remember when the Pope visited Juarez last February. The Diario reveals today that it cost the City of El Paso

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South of the Border

2016-05-31 elrichiboy Law Enforcement 3 comments

You should be concerned about traveling south of the border, especially if you’re a Canadian, according to this story from

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War of the Worlds

2016-05-31 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, It's All Good, Media, Politics 2 comments

In this week’s news, the City is considering jacking the parking rates at metered spots during events. The city is

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Paradise Lost and Found Revisited

2016-05-23 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development, Juarez 3 comments

I was going to write a post about how things change (or not) but as I did some research I

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Thug Life

2016-05-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube

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How to Live in El Paso: Frutas Avenue Fraternal and Social Club

2016-05-20 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 5 comments

Okay, so maybe I’m late to the party on this one. Maybe you’ve already been there. Maybe you’re already tired

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History belongs to the victors (and the guys that run the websites)

2016-05-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Media, Politics 2 comments

I was going to write about this post, on ElPasoSpeak.com. In it you will notice that, even under the model

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Let’s Review

2016-05-16 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development 2 comments

We’ve got a City Council ostensibly intent on attracting new, forward-thinking, businesses, and they’ve done what? Refused to provide partial

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We need to jump on this.

2016-05-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development One comment

We’re missing an opportunity here. Everyone I know has promised to leave the country after the next election if The

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Remember how cool El Paso used to be? A continuing story . . .

2016-05-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development One comment

El Pasoans of a certain age will appreciate all the cultural references in this interesting trailer for a video about

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Observation and Speculation

2016-05-02 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 5 comments

Is El Paso getting ready to explode? I’ve heard that before. The news reports lots of exciting developments. Aldea. Luxury

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Stop Resisting!

2016-04-28 elrichiboy Law Enforcement One comment

What do San Antonio, Albuquerque, and Tucson have that El Paso doesn’t? A police department that participates in the federal

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National Cover Charge

2016-04-26 elrichiboy Juarez 5 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Times, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is proposing a fine for U.S.

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They’ll do whatever it takes, and they don’t care how much it costs you.

2016-04-25 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics One comment

Remember when everyone was celebrating all the new development going on in downtown El Paso? One of the big projects

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Nothing to see here. Move along.

2016-04-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, It's All Good, Media 2 comments

Here’s an interesting story about the Tigua Tribal Police arresting a seven-year-old at South Loop Elementary School. His mother found

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The City of El Paso Gets Sued for Throwing Poor People in Jail

2016-04-22 elrichiboy City Council, Law Enforcement, Politics Leave a comment

Remember when Buzzfeed reported that El Paso’s policy of jailing people who can’t afford to pay their traffic fines was

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Winners and Losers

2016-04-14 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Politics One comment

Former City Manager and current Chair of the Steering Committee of the Borderplex Alliance Joyce Wilson would like you to

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Muslims for Trump

2016-04-12 elrichiboy Politics One comment
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Poor Joyce

2016-04-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

It was a lot of responsibility to unilaterally saddle El Paso taxpayers with debt from the ballpark, and now those

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Payback? Ha!

2016-04-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Politics 3 comments

In my next life, I want top come back as a member of El Paso’s Ruling Class. It’s as much

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