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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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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part One: Hurricane Mencho

    2026-02-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Fear, hunger, thirst and uncertainty. That’s what folks in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco lived through on February 22, now undoubtedly one of the

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  • “Where Texas Begins”

    2026-02-21 Rich Wright

    The latest (several years old) tagline from Visit El Paso/the Convention and Visitors Center/Destination El Paso appears to be “Where Texas Begins”. Of course Texas

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  • Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall in “Confidential Agent”

    2026-02-15 elrichiboy
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  • “You’re Fired!”

    2026-02-14 Rich Wright

    Remember when Donald Trump’s tagline was “You’re fired!” One might think that he’d be pulling that old standard out again, what with the clown car

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  • “YEMEN: A Forgotten Earth Where Time Still Breathes”

    2026-02-14 elrichiboy
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  • “Love in a Man’s World”

    2026-02-08 elrichiboy
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Free Wifi in Downtown

2016-06-23 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Juarez 4 comments

According to this story in El Diario, visitors to downtown will soon enjoy free wifi: La avenida Juárez contará con

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Treating the Symptoms Instead of the Disease

2016-06-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

So let’s see, we cut funding for mental health care, make it illegal to self-medicate, instill fear and paranoia in

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Population Statistics: An Inconvenient Truth

2016-06-21 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, It's All Good, Taxes Leave a comment

I’m sure you’ve heard the news: It’s All Good. But that trite homily hides an ugly truth. For the year

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More Good News

2016-06-20 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes One comment

Here’s a surprise we never saw coming. From KVIA: The El Paso school district is proposing a tax increase and

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We’re Number 1!

2016-06-19 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, It's All Good 2 comments

I guess you saw the U.S. News and World Report report that had El Paso rated as the ninth best

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Good News on the Traffic Front

2016-06-19 elrichiboy It's All Good, Media 5 comments

In a story headlined West Side traffic jam relief will take years, the El Paso Times mentions some good news.

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Number 9?

2016-06-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, It's All Good, Media Leave a comment

According to this evaluation from U.S. News and World Report, El Paso ranks ninth in the nation for Qualify of

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Tiger Moth?

2016-06-16 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Saw this little fellow in our backyard today. I think he’s some variety of Tiger Moth. Anyone know better?

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Here’s Looking Up Your Old Address

2016-06-16 elrichiboy It's All Good, Law Enforcement 2 comments

Another day, another fruitless anal probe performed on a U.S. citizen by Customs and Border Protection. From the Arizona Capitol

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Public Service Announcement

2016-06-15 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics 3 comments

Those planning to travel from downtown El Paso to the west side during peak travel hours are advised catch U.S.

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About the Orlando Photo Op

2016-06-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Media, Politics One comment

DavidK makes a lively point here, on his RefusetheJuice blog, about the gathering of elected officials after the Orlando shooting.

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I have seen the future, and it’s not pretty.

2016-06-13 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

One of the keys for El Paso’s future development is advanced logistics, if you believe the masterminds at the Borderplex

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Mark Lucas for District 4

2016-06-12 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Politics 6 comments

Here’s an opinion piece in the El Paso Times from Northeast El Paso resident Mark Lucas. I’m concerned about City

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El Guero Palma is Almost Free

2016-06-11 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Héctor Luis “El Guero” Palma Salazar, one of the founders of the Sinaloa Cartel, will be released from U.S. custody

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Add Oklahoma to the List of States Not to Visit

2016-06-10 elrichiboy Law Enforcement 4 comments

If you’re driving in Oklahoma, and you see the flashing lights in your mirror, you might end up homeless, according

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Huh?

2016-06-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

Here’s a quote form District 1 Representative Peter Svarzbein, from KVIA. “El Paso sometimes gets destroyed under the stick when

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Fin de Semana

2016-06-10 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

I’m sitting in a bar in Ciudad Chihuahua, The Monaco, on the edge of downtown. It’s clean and well lighted

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I think I know him.

2016-06-09 elrichiboy It's All Good Leave a comment

An elderly couple were robbed at a bus stop near the H&H this morning, according to KFOX. El Paso police

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About Tommy Gonzalez

2016-06-09 elrichiboy City Council, Media, Politics 2 comments

I’ve said it before: Doesn’t the outrage about the City Manager’s lapses seem disproportionate? Yeah, he probably didn’t need an

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Ghosts?

2016-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a piece that makes one question the durability of the membrane between the here-and-now and the afterlife. Mourning seems

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