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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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  • “The Spider”

    2025-06-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

    2025-06-21 elrichiboy
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  • “The First Livestreamed Genocide”

    2025-06-21 Rich Wright

    From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves.

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  • I Don’t Like Bullies

    2025-06-20 Rich Wright

    On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not bullies anymore.” Wait a minute.

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  • Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

    2025-06-18 Rich Wright

    Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision to eliminate it. From KVIA.com:

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  • STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso

    2025-06-16 Paul Dickerson

    by Paul Dickerson This morning, I was crossing the Puente Paso del Norte back to El Paso after running a pressing errand in Ciudad Juárez.

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  • “Outside the Law”

    2025-06-15 elrichiboy
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  • “Colombian Cartels: Meet the World’s Biggest Drug Suppliers”

    2025-06-14 elrichiboy
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  • Dead People

    2025-06-13 Rich Wright

    I am of an age where I know lots of dead people. Some, of course, have been dead for a while. Hollywood. Asshole Bob. Jimmy

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  • “The League of Gentlemen”

    2025-06-08 elrichiboy
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  • “1964: The Year That Changed America”

    2025-06-07 elrichiboy
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Chuco-style Brand Management

2014-09-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

A reliable source related this story to me today. A woman parked her car by the library. She took her

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El Paso: Where Young People Go to Leave

2014-09-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The New York Times Magazine ran a feature on Portland touting the city’s ability to attract and retain college educated

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National PARK(ing) Day in Downtown El Paso

2014-09-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In an effort to promote downtown El Paso, the City has commandeered what looks like a couple of parking spaces

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It’s Lonely at the Top . . .

2014-09-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

or so I’m told. We only made it to the saddle.

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El Paso is Home to the Second Best Burrito in America

2014-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

The website fivethirtyeight.com claims that Delicious Mexican Eatery’s chile verde burrito is the second best burrito in American, being edged

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The Future of Journalism

2014-09-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Dead tree media have had a hard time competing with the internet. Newspapers thought that all they had to do

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Sensationalist Pandering to Base Emotions

2014-09-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

Do you see this fight that took place before the UTEP-Texas Tech game? I lifted it from the KVIA website.

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Death A Waits

2014-09-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

The word on the street is that squatters had been occupying the old Lerner building since the Gateway closed. Word

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Monorail! Monorail! Juarez Scratches the Itch

2014-09-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from the El Diario website. Juarez is thinking about putting in light rail to link San Agustin

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Guess What. The Developers Have Been Screwing Us.

2014-09-04 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

Here’s some brilliant insight from an informed observer who was sitting at the table when El Paso residential property owners

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The Long Walk Home

2014-09-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Last night I walked home from Ultimate. I had a ride lined up but it fell through. Everyone wanted to

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Is the Islamic State in Juarez?

2014-08-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

This from the website JudicialWatch.org: Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning

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Clang Clang Clang

2014-08-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Will people park their cars and take the trolley from downtown to UTEP? Currently there are four bus routes that

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‘topes Leaving ABQ for OKC

2014-08-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Albuquerque Isotopes will end their affiliation with the Los Angeles Dodgers next season. The Major League club will move

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You Are All Just Characters in My Video Game

2014-08-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story that’s either comforting or disturbing or both. Government scientists are investigating whether reality is as real as

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Leading Indicators

2014-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

If the County of El Paso were a publicly held company, these two stories would give investors reason to short

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Mission Accomplished!

2014-08-26 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Well, the numbers are in, and the ballpark is a huge success. Attendance records have been broken, businesses are swarming

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More Tiny Houses for Homeless People

2014-08-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the latest. This one’s from Portland. Portland is preparing to endorse the construction of communities of tiny houses on

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A Closer Look at Austin’s Newest Housing Project

2014-08-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My interest was piqued by the tidbit of information about Austin’s newest project to provide housing to the chronically homeless.

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The Divided Future of El Paso

2014-08-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

I was surprised to see many of El Paso’s first citizens at the recent meeting to discuss the potential move

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