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  • Thank the Taxpayers

    2025-11-10 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story at ElPasoTimes.com titled State of the County address touts growth through bonds in address. “On time and on budget” was the rallying

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  • Can’t We Just Wait?

    2025-11-09 Rich Wright

    Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people who are okay with the

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  • “The Sniper”

    2025-11-09 elrichiboy
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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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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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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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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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