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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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Another Two Bite the Dust

2015-08-06 elrichiboy Economic Development 4 comments

The bar business is dynamic. The barriers to entry in Texas are relatively small, and almost everyone who’s been in

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The Price of Gasoline: Updated

2015-08-05 elrichiboy Economic Development Leave a comment

Update: According to this story in yesterday’s English language daily, business is good for Western Refining. Western Refining beat analysts’

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The Lives and Deaths of Jack Thompson: Updated

2015-08-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized 9 comments

Update: I emailed Jason McGahan, the author The Chicago cocaine kingpin who was a federal informant, the original piece in

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The Price of Gasoline

2015-08-04 elrichiboy Economic Development 4 comments

One time, years ago, I stopped for gas at the 7 Eleven at the corner of Mesa and University. At

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Who Represents El Paso?

2015-08-03 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Politics 4 comments

If you only read the local newspapers, and maybe watch the City Council meetings on the internet, you might not

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The Lives and Deaths of Jack Thompson

2015-08-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Jack Thompson was one of those oversized personalities that El Paso frequently gives birth to. Jack was a drug dealer.

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How to Live in El Paso: Rosco’s Burger Inn

2015-08-01 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 5 comments

In and Out? Fuddrucker’s? Johnny Rockets? Blake’s? And even (heresy alert) Whataburger? Forget it. El Paso has lots of great

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The Onion: “It’s not funny anymore.”

2015-07-31 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

You’re familiar with the Onion, the satirical magazine and website that pokes fun at American foibles. Well, yesterday they posted

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More of the Same

2015-07-31 elrichiboy It's All Good, Politics Leave a comment

From a July 29 article in El Paso’s English language daily: “I am confident that with the City Council’s guidance,

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Not Too Bad If You’ve Got Low Standards

2015-07-31 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, It's All Good 2 comments

My City Rep posted this link on her Facepage. When it comes to walkable cities, Texas tends to get a

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El Paso: A Metaphor

2015-07-30 elrichiboy Economic Development, It's All Good, Politics One comment

El Paso is like that really nice girl with the shitty boyfriend who treats her badly and maybe hits her

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More on DestinationElPaso’s Branding Campaign

2015-07-29 elrichiboy Brand El Paso Leave a comment

A friend of mine who worked on the city’s brand a while back saw my recent post and messaged me

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More Good News

2015-07-28 elrichiboy Economic Development, It's All Good One comment

David Crowder at the El Paso Inc. reports this week that airline passenger traffic has dropped twenty percent over the

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“There’s no need to fear. Underdog is here.”

2015-07-28 elrichiboy Economic Development, It's All Good Leave a comment

Maybe you’re one of those people who think that the litany of bad news coming to light about El Paso’s

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DestinationElPaso’s Branding Campaign

2015-07-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 5 comments

Branding isn’t advertising. It’s not marketing. A brand is more like the gestalt of a good or service. A brand

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Blame the New Guy

2015-07-26 elrichiboy It's All Good, Politics One comment

The El Paso Times knows who’s responsible for the poor paperwork that resulted in the City not receiving $20 million

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Stop and Frisk in Juarez

2015-07-26 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

According to this story out of Juarez, the local police there have stepped up the Stop and Frisk approach to

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An Open Letter to Peter Svarzbien

2015-07-25 elrichiboy Politics 3 comments

Peter, (May I call you Peter? I feel that with this kind of letter, it’s better to be chummy.) Politics.

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Surviving the Police

2015-07-24 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Well, it’s the weekend, and that means you are at a higher risk of engaging law enforcement. So watch this.

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The World is Round

2015-07-24 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 25 comments

What I’m about to suggest is heresy. What if downtown El Paso will never be a high-end destination? That’s the

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