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  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

    2026-04-05 elrichiboy
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  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”

    2026-04-03 Rich Wright

    (Scene: Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon.) Secretary Pete Hegseth: . . . and that, gentlemen, is how we will end this war.

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  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

    2026-03-31 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Data centers are a burning issue in the Paso del Norte borderland of 2026. Plans to open a giant data center complex

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  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

    2026-03-22 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martinez Given the recent disturbing revelations about Cesar Chávez, it seems certain that the local Border Highway’s name will be changed.  Many

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  • “Hangover Square”

    2026-03-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Rise and Ruin of the Coca-Cola Family”

    2026-03-21 elrichiboy
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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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It’s Almost Good.

2016-08-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, How to Live in El Paso 2 comments

El Paso is beautiful. The mountains. The sky. My wife. (That’s not her in the mural.) And the art. Especially

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Surprise!

2016-08-17 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Taxes Leave a comment

Well, there it is. The El Paso Times reports that the University Medical Center, overseen by the El Paso County

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I’m Too Clever by Half

2016-08-17 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Taxes 2 comments

Fellow blogger Mr. Jaime Abeytia informed me, via a response to a comment I made on his blog and through

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Did they, or didn’t they?

2016-08-16 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Politics, Taxes 2 comments

Did the Commissioners Court publish their intent to raise their salaries in a local newspaper of general circulation? Because according

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There’s nothing wrong with El Paso . . .

2016-08-16 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Media, Politics, School Districts 2 comments

that can’t be fixed with higher taxes and bigger government bureaucracies. Am I right?

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What does the Times Think?

2016-08-15 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Media 4 comments

Don’t you suppose that it’s the duty of the preeminent English-language newspaper to give voice to their opinion on the

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Stacking the Deck So Everyone Loses

2016-08-15 elrichiboy Economic Development, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

Do you reckon that the El Paso Independent School District will put mobile voting stations in their high schools the

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The El Paso Times: Duplicitous, or Grossly Incompetent?

2016-08-14 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Media, Politics, Taxes 5 comments

Like every other sentient being in the Mexoplex, you have probably wondered if the El Paso Times is biased or

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Did you drop the soap?

2016-08-11 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Taxes 5 comments

Did you hear that the County Commissioners voted to give themselves a $26,569 annual pay increase? “I think it was

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Count Your Blessings

2016-08-09 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes One comment

The El Paso Independent School District is asking voters to approve a $600 million bond because of declining enrollment. Think

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Obey

2016-08-08 elrichiboy Media, Politics 2 comments

With Hindi (I think) subtitles.

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And Champagne in the Cafeterias

2016-08-07 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes, Uncategorized 3 comments

The El Paso Times reports that this year every EPISD high school student will be issued a laptop. Are you

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Term Limits

2016-07-26 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Taxes One comment

Term limits are a good idea. If you are special interests promoting a certain agenda. Because once a politician has

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Where the Sun Don’t Shine

2016-07-15 elrichiboy City Council, How to Live in El Paso 3 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Times, the El Paso Electric Company (EPEC) may soon engage in rolling

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The Long and the Short of It

2016-07-14 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

According to this story from ABC News, the chief security officer in Ciudad Acuña has banned miniskirts. The security chief

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Bravos Apertura

2016-07-14 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Our local professional fútbol team, FC Bravos from Ciudad Juarez, will be playing their first game of the 2016 season

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Why your taxes are so high

2016-07-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Law Enforcement 2 comments

The City has renewed its partnership with the CBP to keep the bridge lines short. From KVIA: The City of

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But It’s Dry Heat

2016-07-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, It's All Good, Media One comment

Remember this post from the Orbitz Travel Blog, picked up here by the Huffington Post. It’s titled 8 Places With

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Actions, and sometimes even just expressing opinions, have consequences.

2016-07-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, It's All Good 3 comments

Not here. In Seattle. From the website mynorthwest.com: President of the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild Ron Smith says he will

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Simple Solutions to Complex Issues

2016-07-12 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Politics 8 comments

Calling Black Lives Matters a “radical hate group” dismisses their legitimate grievances. Police often take adversarial positions to the communities

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