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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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It seems apt

2015-04-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Here’s a quote, dubiously attributed to Charles Bukowski, that seems appropriate to the local political scene. “The problem with the

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From That Guy Who Always Rings Twice

2015-04-24 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Uncategorized Leave a comment

I got a couple of interesting political advertisements in the mail today. One was from Yes! Yes! For El Paso

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Homegrown

2015-04-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

If you’ve ever eaten a fresh tomato in winter, you’ve probably eaten a tomato grown by slaves. If you’re one

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Over the line

2015-04-22 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez Leave a comment

If El Paso wants to thrive, we need to reduce the disincentives to crossing the border. We need to debunk

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We’re not citizens, we’re subjects.

2015-04-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

How much of a voice do you have in the way you’re governed? Did you get a vote on the

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

2015-04-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you see where El Paso’s unemployment rate was below the national average again last month? Economists are puzzled, because

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Tony’s Stainless Steel Taco Stand

2015-04-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My friend Tony bought a stainless steel cart, suitable for selling tacos from. Tony lives in Juarez. Selling tacos is

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You’ll find it all embracing

2015-04-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

At the Taj Mahal of racing Come to the beautiful, wonderful, elegant Come to the Juarez Racetrack

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The El Paso Inc. vs. Billy Abraham

2015-04-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

You remember, no doubt, that series of articles by Robert Gray about Billy Abraham in the El Paso Inc. a

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Luther Come Home

2015-04-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story in the El Paso Times, former County Judge Luther Jones has been released to a halfway

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El Herradero de Los Soto

2015-04-15 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 5 comments

Somehow, the greatest places in Juarez have survived. El Herradero de Los Soto is a steak joint on Hermanos Escobar,

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Curiouser and curiouser

2015-04-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Isn’t it funny how the City of El Paso’s imminent insolvency is blowing up the local blogosphere, but none of

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You better El Paso Up, y’all

2015-04-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did you see El Paso’s new slogan to attract tourists? “You Better El Paso Up” will soon replace “Real Adventure”

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Now there’s a surprise

2015-04-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in the El Paso’s Times El Paso taxpayers had to make up for a larger-than-expected shortfall

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Gallup-Healthways: El Paso #3 for Well-Being

2015-04-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to a recent poll, El Paso tied for third with Raliegh, North Carolina, and the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, California, Metropolitan

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The El Paso County Historical Commission has our backs.

2015-04-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Did you see this story by Robert Gray in this week’s El Paso Inc.? On Thursday, the El Paso County

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Día de San Ricardo

2015-04-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Today is the saint’s day for San Ricardo. If you know any Richards, or Ricardos, or El Richi Boys, you

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The Oldest Bar in the Paso del Norte

2015-04-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You probably think you’ve been to the oldest bar in Juarez. Well I hate to burst your bubble. And I

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Bowling for Life?

2015-04-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you see this photo by Rudy Gutierrez? That guy is 87 years old. He looks like he’s sixty. He’s

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No, really, I’m serious

2015-04-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

You know, downtown El Paso is blighted by vacant lots. Prime real estate. Vacant lots. I was thinking, what those

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