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  • “The Fat Man”

    2025-09-07 elrichiboy
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  • Taxes, Tax Breaks and a Texas Two-Step

    2025-09-05 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson You may or may not have heard about Project Jupiter by now. No, it’s not the latest scheme by Elon Musk to

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  • “He Ran All the Way”

    2025-08-31 elrichiboy
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  • “BARRIO AZTECA: Cartel Wars on the Texas Border”

    2025-08-30 elrichiboy
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  • Leave It to the D.A.

    2025-08-26 Rich Wright

    Here’s one of those stories from the El Paso Times that made the front page of the dead tree edition but you have to look

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  • Retrovision: El Paso Police Are Taser Happy and the El Paso Times Doesn’t Want You to Know It

    2025-08-25 Rich Wright

    This story originally appeared on 8 December 2022. Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of the El Paso Times: One

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  • “The Glass Wall”

    2025-08-24 elrichiboy
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  • “Cartels, Tariffs and Fentanyl, the US-Mexico Border Showdown Investigated | Foreign Correspondent”

    2025-08-23 elrichiboy
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  • Another Mental Health Crisis Homicide at the Hands of EPPD

    2025-08-23 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Police Department has a thing for killing people having mental health crises. Check out this latest body-cam video: The guy was asking

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  • An Economic Forecast

    2025-08-22 Rich Wright

    Here’s part of an editorial from El Diario de Juarez:1 Ayer informamos que, a tasa mensual, la producción de la maquila en Ciudad Juárez cayó

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  • The Purge is Coming

    2025-08-21 Rich Wright

    Here’s a video about McAllen, Texas. El Paso might not be next, but it’s on the list.

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  • “Mister 880”

    2025-08-17 elrichiboy
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How to Live Anywhere: Weed Pesto

2016-01-11 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 4 comments

If you live in El Paso, you probably have London Rocket growing in your yard right now. I guarantee that

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Don’t Blame Bob

2016-01-09 elrichiboy Media, Politics Leave a comment

Lots of people blame El Paso Times Editor Bob Moore for a perceived slant to the coverage in our English

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Mildly Interesting

2016-01-07 elrichiboy Juarez, Politics Leave a comment

This is the new sculpture they’ve erected in Juarez. It replaces the sculpture of an angel that some people thought

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Idle Speculation

2015-12-30 elrichiboy City Council, It's All Good, Media, Politics 3 comments

Do you suppose the local heavyweights turned sour on City Manager Tommy Gonzalez when they discovered that he would award

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A Present from Our Friends at City Hall

2015-12-26 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Media, Politics Leave a comment

The agenda for the December 7 Special Meeting of the City Council included this item: Discussion and action that the

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FYI: Christmas Hours

2015-12-23 elrichiboy Go Local Leave a comment

The Kentucky Club closes at 8 on Christmas Eve, but resumes its regular hours for Christmas, 11 in the morning

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Hot Potato

2015-12-21 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics 2 comments

You’ve probably heard that political considerations caused the ballpark bonds to be issued later than expected, and the delay cost

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Spoiler Alert

2015-12-20 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

In today’s El Paso Inc., there’s a story about an improper redaction by somebody in the office of our omniscient

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Now that’s a good looking man.

2015-12-19 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

According to the agenda for next Tuesday’s City Council meeting, the Mayor is reappointing Fire Chief Samuel Pena to the

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Tim Cook on the Importance of Learning Computer Coding

2015-12-17 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

Imagine what we could do if we took all that money we’re throwing away on ballparks and arenas and devoted

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It’s Just Business

2015-12-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You may have heard of the workers at Juarez’ Lexmark plant getting fired for asking for a raise. Printer and

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So how did they vote?

2015-12-16 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics 2 comments

If you’re like me, you are mildly entertained by all the drama going on at City Hall, but you’re really

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Coding as a Core Class

2015-12-13 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

The Georgia State Board of Education has decided to allow high school students to include computer coding as a core

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Happy Birthday, Ol’ Blue Eyes

2015-12-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Frank Sinatra, December 12, 1915 — May 14, 1998

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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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