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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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  • The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises

    2025-10-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Amid the landscape of yucca and creosote plants, artificial intelligence-driven Project Stargate took shape this week just a tad up the road from

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  • Diminishing El Paso

    2025-10-06 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue to see little to moderate

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  • “Highway Dragnet”

    2025-10-05 elrichiboy
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  • “The 1916 [Irish] Rising of Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”

    2025-10-04 elrichiboy
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  • Ouch!

    2025-10-03 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times delivered its mandated circulation report on page 5A of Thursday’s dead tree edition, and it’s not pretty. On July 25, 2025,

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  • Juarez’ 2025 Bullfighting Season

    2025-10-01 Rich Wright

    While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at 8pm at the Alberto Balderas

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  • The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown

    2025-09-30 Rich Wright

    Downtown El Paso is already barely accessible. What effect will 5 years of freeway and deck park construction have on it? All those businesses who

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  • “Park Plaza 605”

    2025-09-28 elrichiboy
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  • Social Engineering Chuco-Style

    2025-09-26 Rich Wright

    I live in a neighborhood I call Barrio Heights. Barrio Heights is below Rim Road, close to El Paso High. The houses in Barrio Heights

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  • Community First Coalition Forum on Affordable Housing

    2025-09-25 elrichiboy

    The Community First Coalition is hosting a forum on the housing challenges facing the local community. Everybody needs housing, and in the current climate, we

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  • Book Launch: “Juarez | Tales from a Misunderstood City”

    2025-09-24 elrichiboy
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A Homegrown City Manager?

2024-02-27 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Joyce Wilson, Oscar Leeser, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Two weeks ago City Council rejected Mayor Oscar Leeser’s proposal to restrict the search for a City Manager to locals.

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More From Joyce

2024-02-26 Rich Wright Arrogance, City Council, Joyce Wilson, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Here’s another email that disgraced former City Manager Joyce Wilson sent to Mayor Oscar Leeser: Since the 2012 Quality of

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Impact Fees, Annunciation House, and Tropicana Homes

2024-02-26 Rich Wright Politics, Slider One comment

Here’s an great article from Diego Mendoza-Moyers at ElPasoMatters.com about the subsidies El Paso taxpayers give to local home builders.

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Humphrey Bogart in “Tokyo Joe”

2024-02-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Panic of 1066”

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Revisiting the 2012 Quality of Life Bond Promotion

2024-02-24 Rich Wright Borderplex Alliance, Downtown, Economic Development, Joyce Wilson, Local Heroes, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena One comment

Debbie Nathan was a local hero. She’s still a hero, but she’s not local anymore. Ms. Nathan is an accomplished

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Another Reason We’re Doomed

2024-02-23 Rich Wright Economic Development, Slider, Workforce Solutions Borderplex 3 comments

Leila Martinez has it figured it out, according to this ElPasoTimes.com article: Upskilling. That’s what El Paso’s workforce needs to

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The Failure of the 2012 Quality of Life Projects

2024-02-22 Rich Wright Arrogance, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Joyce Wilson, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

They promised us economic development. They promised us a vibrant downtown. They promised us a minimal increase in property taxes.

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What Joyce Said

2024-02-21 Rich Wright Arrogance, El Paso Matters, Gensler, Joyce Wilson, Media, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

Here’s the email that former City Manager Joyce Wilson sent to Mayor Oscar Leeser last week: Even though I’ve been

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“I think we deserve a 14,000 seat arena.”

2024-02-20 Rich Wright Art Fierro, Carmen Arrieta-Candelaria, Joyce Wilson, Slider, The Arena One comment

That’s what District 6 Representative Art Fierro was quoted as saying in this ElPasoTimes.com article. Why? Have we been misbehaving?

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“The Anderson Tapes”

2024-02-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Featuring Sean Connery and introducing Christopher Walken

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“Zhukow – Marshal of the Soviet Union”

2024-02-17 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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AMLO and the Third Rail of Mexican Politics

2024-02-16 Kent Paterson Mexico, Politics, Slider One comment

By Kent Paterson If outgoing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has accomplished anything during his five year plus

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Joyce Speaks! (Updated*)

2024-02-15 Rich Wright Arrogance, Joyce Wilson, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Did you see this opinion piece by former City Manager Joyce Wilson at ElPasoMatters.com? This is why political leadership is

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“Department of Public Health Concerns”

2024-02-15 anonymous City Council, City Management, Public Health, Slider 3 comments

The following guest column was submitted anonymously, but I thought it was an entertaining (and concerning, if it’s true) read.

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A License to Litter

2024-02-14 elrichiboy Dumpsters One comment

Did you know that most dumpsters are on city property? They’re in alleys, or that little strip of land between

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Inflation, Chucostyle

2024-02-14 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Did you get a gas bill this month? Was it about twice as high as last month’s? Ouch. Have you

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“The Brave Bulls”

2024-02-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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“All the King’s Men”

2024-02-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

From YouTube: “In a bravura performance, Broderick Crawford won the 1949 Academy Award for Best Actor with his stunning portrayal

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Diesel Exhaust is Toxic

2024-02-01 Rich Wright Bridge of the Americas, City Council, Slider 6 comments

From TheEngineer.co.UK: But even when governments were promoting diesel cars, we knew there were issues with toxic emissions (those immediately

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