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  • King David

    2025-08-13 Rich Wright

    From up above, from a rooftop, or an upper window, they could be dancing. The hip hop thumps from the oversize speakers in the trunk

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  • Retrovision: Billares El Cid

    2025-08-12 Rich Wright

    This post originally appeared on 12 October 2017. I’m not sure if the information is current. Like everything else in Mexico, like wealth and income

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  • We Don’t Need No Stinking Ethics

    2025-08-11 Rich Wright

    Isn’t it a violation of the City’s ethics rules for Mayor Renard Johnson to support the deck park when he owns apartments only a half

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  • “Criminal Lawyer”

    2025-08-10 elrichiboy
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  • “The Book of Enoch – What the Church Tried to Hide”

    2025-08-09 elrichiboy
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  • The History and Geography of Cartels in Juarez

    2025-08-08 Rich Wright

    Here’s an insightful portrait of the criminal organizations in Ciudad Juarez, their histories, and their geographic domains, from InsightCrime.org1: If you ask most Juarenses, “the

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  • What Redistricting Means to El Paso

    2025-08-07 Rich Wright

    From KTSM.com: The El Paso City Council has officially taken a stance to oppose Texas Republican legislators’ proposed redistricting map. . . . Republicans’ proposed

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  • “Liminal Spaces: A Border Dialogue” Art Opening This Friday

    2025-08-06 elrichiboy
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  • Let’s Put the Deck Park to a Vote

    2025-08-04 Rich Wright

    Isn’t that the way things get decided in a democracy? I know, elections are expensive, but not as expensive as a $400 million deck park.

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  • “Trapped”

    2025-08-03 elrichiboy
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  • “Bolivia: La vida en las nubes | Las carreteras más peligrosas del mundo”

    2025-08-02 elrichiboy
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  • The “Notorious NARCOTIC Smuggler” La Nacha: The El Paso Years

    2025-07-31 Bob Chessey

    So, “Who was ‘La Nacha’?” For 50 years “La Nacha” remained a name synonymous with Juarez and opiate trafficking, a woman who rose to become

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Go Local: South Sun Rises

2015-12-11 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s the first published literary effort from El Paso videographer Valentin Sandoval, and it’s pretty special. I’m no expert, but

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Skipping Along the Primrose Path

2015-12-11 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Do y’all read ElPasoSpeak.com? Old Brutus is a bulldog. I know he looks like a Rottweiler, but really he’s a

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The real story?

2015-12-10 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Given the nearly constant, egregious, dysfunctional, behavior of City Council and City Government, don’t you think that the recent righteous

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Who can you trust?

2015-12-10 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Media One comment

The following paragraph appeared in the El Paso Times December 8, 2015 attempt to impose moral rectitude on City Hall,

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From the Horse’s Mouth

2015-12-09 elrichiboy City Council, Politics 3 comments

From an article in the El Paso Times, regarding the selection of Ross Fischer of Golber Hilgers, PLLC, to investigate

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Is that even legal?

2015-12-08 elrichiboy City Council One comment

Here’s a screen shot of the notice of the special City Council meeting yesterday. See where the meeting time is

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El Día de Nuestra Señora

2015-12-08 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Saturday is El Día de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. A multitude will meet in front of the cathedral in Juarez

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They must be around here somewhere.

2015-12-06 elrichiboy City Council, Media, Politics Leave a comment

Here’s a little tidbit from an El Paso Times editorial: At a City Council discussion Monday about ethics laws, it

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The Ouija Speaks

2015-12-04 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics 2 comments

Why, you are probably asking yourself, would El Paso need a downtown arena? I mean we’ve got the Don Haskins

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Light at the end of the tunnel?

2015-12-03 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development 3 comments

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? On Tuesday, the City Council was supposed to take action

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We’re Too Nice

2015-12-02 elrichiboy Economic Development 2 comments

People in El Paso are nice. That’s why we put up with so much crap. We don’t want to hurt

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“Cast Down Your Bucket”

2015-12-01 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Politics One comment

Before he mastered the B3, Booker T. Washington was an influential Black American. Here’s a paragraph from a speech he

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Four Things to be Thankful For

2015-11-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

1. The El Paso Times hasn’t called for your resignation. 2. You haven’t been linked to any political shenanigans that

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A Question, Dr. CFO, If You Please

2015-11-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

This article from The Atlantic’s City Lab, titled The Accounting Rules That Bankrupt Cities raises some interesting questions for El

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Synthesis?

2015-11-20 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics One comment

Remember this story from a couple of days ago, in which City Manager Tommy Gonzalez said that El Paso can

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Remember the Alamo

2015-11-19 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

By now you’ve probably seen this story on KVIA. EL PASO, Texas – Political considerations may have cost the City

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“The Political Will to Raise Taxes”

2015-11-18 elrichiboy City Council, Politics 2 comments

By local standards, Tuesday morning was cold. The overnight wind had scattered asphalt shingles across the sidewalk. A tree branch

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The Poorest President in the World

2015-11-14 elrichiboy Politics Leave a comment

Uruguay’s president Jose Mujica talks about the politics of being human. “It’s not a matter of resources. It’s a lack

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The Drunkest City in Texas. And America.

2015-11-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Media One comment

Did you see this slideshow of the drunkest cities in each state? El Paso is the drunkest city in Texas.

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The Politics of Incompetence

2015-11-11 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics 2 comments

Remember how the settlement agreement for Children’s Hospital bankruptcy included a provision that critic Andy Krafsur wouldn’t be allowed to

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