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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

    2025-11-01 elrichiboy

    With music by David Romo.

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  • Bullfight Tonight!

    2025-10-31 Rich Wright

    The 2025 bullfighting season carries on tonight with another spectacle at the Aberto Balderas Bullring in downtown Juarez. Tonight’s headliner is El Zapata. From LaPrensa.org,

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  • Gregory Peck in “The Case of the Enchanted Prisoner”

    2025-10-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

    2025-10-25 elrichiboy
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  • “EL PASO, WHERE SUNSHINE SPENDS THE WINTER”

    2025-10-23 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey One hundred years ago, before El Paso simply advertised and referred to itself as the “Sun City,” the municipality boasted the slogan,

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  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

    2025-10-20 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright This article, or something very much like it, originally appeared on NewspaperTree.com in early May, 2008. There’s this brain drain argument that’s

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  • “The Other Woman”

    2025-10-19 elrichiboy
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  • “The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

    2025-10-18 elrichiboy

    Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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  • Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-10-17 Rich Wright

    Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing organizations. In response to the

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  • Ninja Convention

    2025-10-16 Rich Wright

    The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade on Montana last night. Kudos

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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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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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Just the facts, ma’am.

2016-03-29 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, It's All Good, Politics 4 comments

Has the local economy ever performed worse? Household income in El Paso is going down. Wages are among the lowest

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It’s Only (Your) Money

2016-03-28 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics 2 comments

Remember when the machine was pitching those Quality of Life bonds? Some of us were afraid that all that new

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The Gift That Keeps on Giving

2016-03-25 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics 5 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Times, County Commissioner David Stout has nominated former City of El Paso

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“Why Tax Rates Matter More Than Incentives”

2016-03-25 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics One comment

Here’s an excellent article that explains why lower property tax rates are more important than economic incentives for attracting new

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You Decide

2016-03-24 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics 3 comments

Well, here’s how it is. Household income in El Paso is going down. Wages are among the lowest in the

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Ticket Fixing

2016-03-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, How to Live in El Paso, Law Enforcement One comment

Remember back in December, there was that fatal accident on Hondo Pass? The one where the passenger called 911 and

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The Robber Barons versus the Citizens of El Paso

2016-03-16 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics 2 comments

One time, (okay, more than once), I accused the Big Money in El Paso of foisting all those Quality of

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It’s Only Money

2016-03-15 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Politics 2 comments

According to this story in El Diario, the City of El Paso has hired attorneys to defend the City against

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Remember how cool El Paso used to be?

2016-03-09 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 2 comments

In case you haven’t heard, the former El Paso band Cigarettes After Sex is blowing up, as evidenced by this

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The Shooting of Daniel Saenz

2016-03-08 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Politics Leave a comment

Today is the third anniversary of the day when El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot handcuffed prisoner Daniel Saenz

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Cross Border Shootings

2016-03-07 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement, Politics One comment

Here’s a story from the New York Times Magazine reviewing the shooting of José Antonio Elena Rodríguez, a sixteen-year-old boy

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Outbreak at the Zoo (Website)

2016-03-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 3 comments

Here’s an alert from a concerned citizen: The El Paso zoo is running a malware infested website. I think this

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