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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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Something to Feel Good About

2015-06-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments
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Life Lessons from Dusty Henson

2015-06-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

From the El Paso Times:, in their story about the closing of El Paso Saddleblanket: “You don’t feel good about

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Richard Dayoub on the Borderplex Alliance’s New Strategic Plan

2015-06-18 elrichiboy Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

El Paso Chamber of Commerce President Richard Dayoub expressed hope and reservations about the Borderplex Alliance’s new strategic plan, in

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NASA: The World is Running Out of Water

2015-06-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

More good news on the potable water front, from NASA via the Washington Post. We’re using groundwater faster than we’re

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News from the 4th Estate

2015-06-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Have you noticed that since Gannett announced the takeover of the El Paso Times that the quality of their reporting

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Income Distribution and Economic Growth

2015-06-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Those Communists at the International Monetary Fund have decided that when people talk about trickle-down economics, they’re pissing on your

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My Big Idea

2015-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

I have a transformative branding concept for the City of El Paso. I mean it. It’s something we could all

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Big Ideas from the Borderplex Alliance, Bless Their Hearts

2015-06-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

I’ve been reading the Borderplex Alliance’s Regional Strategic Plan 2015-2020, which you can download here, if you’re feeling a little

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The Margarita Cabrera Sculpture Debacle Continues

2015-06-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Accomplished author and journalist Debbie Nathan has summoned some damning emails from the City of El Paso’s handling of artist

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El Paso Gets National Attention

2015-06-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story on news aggregator Newser.com, El Paso women can find abortions. A woman in El Paso would

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Oops.

2015-06-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

No, I really blew it. I mean I really, really, blew it. I went by Lucy’s Coffee Shop today they

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Who Wants to be Mayor?

2015-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I suspect the power elite is cautiously, surreptitiously, gently, sidling up to some of the ankle-biters and suggesting that they

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What’s Their Game?

2015-06-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

So City Council is all het up to build a 12,000 seat arena in downtown. What’s that all about? We’re

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Adios, amigo

2015-06-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Lucy’s Coffee Shop, that venerable institution that opened in 1974 in that old motor hotel near downtown, appears to have

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The Borderplex Alliance’s New Strategic Plan: A Critique

2015-06-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars. — Steve Martin Did you read this story in

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Big News from Wazoo

2015-06-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did you read the big news out of Juarez last week? No, not the futbol team. (I thought Juarez already

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City (Not El Paso) Raises Taxes to Pay Legal Settlement for Police Misconduct

2015-06-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

In a case that may portend what’s in store for El Pasoans, the city of Inkster, Michigan, will hit taxpayers

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More on the New State Law on Public Corruption

2015-06-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times reports that the State Legislature passed that bill giving the Texas Rangers the authority to investigate

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The El Paso Times Urges Fiscal Responsibility!

2015-06-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times Sunday published an editorial calling for a more sensible approach to civic finance. Over the past

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Yeah, that will really work.

2015-05-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a story from Marty Schladen, writing in the El Paso Times: The director of the Texas Department of Public

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