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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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Downtown El Paso: Creating an Ambience

2015-08-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development One comment

This morning I posted a piece about Sense of Place. Now I’m going to tell you about something similar: Ambience.

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Money Making Opportunity

2015-08-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, It's All Good, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

You know who could make a lot of money in El Paso? A lawyer who specialized in suing the police.

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Sense of Place

2015-08-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Here’s a nugget from Urbanland, the magazine of the Urban Land Institute, written by Edward T. McMahon: In 2010, the

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Viejas Puchadoras

2015-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story from our friends at La Polaka tells us about two matronly types who were arrested in Juarez for

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Some Friendly Advice

2015-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

From my friend a former federal agent: If you’re ever in a knife fight, and you get to the other

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How to Live in El Paso: Your Third Place

2015-08-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

The Moctezuma Cafe was a little dive bar in downtown El Paso. It was a block from the courthouse and

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Urban Removal Redux

2015-08-24 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 4 comments

Demolition in our urban core not only destroys historic buildings, it destroys any chance of revitalizing downtown. What’s going to

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Police Narratives

2015-08-23 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Here are a couple of stories from the national press that may make you question what you hear from the

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A Motive for the City Manager’s Raise?

2015-08-23 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics One comment

Could the power brokers behind El Paso’s city government have arranged for the City Manager’s $61,000 a year raise? According

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Passports to Mexico

2015-08-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story from the Associated Press, going to Mexico isn’t going to be the carefree stroll it always

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Step Right Up

2015-08-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized 6 comments

El Paso Electric didn’t want to be last in the line of people asking El Pasoans for more money. From

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City Rep Larry Romero on the City Manager’s Raise

2015-08-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

District 2 City Representative Larry Romero’s guest column in Sunday’s El Paso Times included this nugget: If the El Paso

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Tommy Gonzalez in the Land of Second Chances

2015-08-14 elrichiboy Politics One comment

People who say that we had to give City Manager Tommy Gonzalez a $61,000 raise to keep another city from

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Regional Economic Development

2015-08-13 elrichiboy Economic Development 3 comments

The Borderplex Alliance, an entity dedicated to regional economic development, commissioned a study by Angelou Economics to develop a plan

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The Empty Suit

2015-08-12 elrichiboy Politics One comment

Commenter Rex Kramer asks, regarding City Manager Tommy Gonzalez’ $61,000 raise, “Who really pulls the strings?” Wouldn’t it be kind

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Some questions about the latest police shooting

2015-08-12 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

How about this account from the El Paso Times of what happened during the police shooting on Dyer last week:

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Throwing Other People’s Money Around

2015-08-10 elrichiboy Politics One comment

The El Paso Times ran an editorial Sunday that was atypically critical of city government. The El Paso City Council’s

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Checks and Balances, El Chuco Style

2015-08-10 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Media 3 comments

The United States runs by a system of checks and balances. If the executive and the legislative branches disagree, then

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The El Paso Police Shot Somebody, Maybe

2015-08-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

From this story in the El Paso Times: A man was shot and killed Thursday night in a parking lot

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Not Too Bad If You’ve Got Low Standards, Part 2

2015-08-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did you see this article on clickbait website WalletHub.com? It claims that, among big cities in the U.S., El Paso

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