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  • Masa pa’ la Raza: Taconeta

    2026-01-23 Rich Wright

    For the third year in a row, Taconeta made it to the semi-finals of the James Beard Awards in the category Outstanding Wine and Other

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  • Fritz Lang’s “House by the River”

    2026-01-18 elrichiboy
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  • “The Gilded Age”

    2026-01-17 elrichiboy
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  • An “Unprecedented” Event

    2026-01-13 Rich Wright

    This from ElPasoTimes.com: It could be until mid-week when a boil water notice is lifted and water service is fully returned to normal after a

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  • The Primary Elections

    2026-01-12 Rich Wright

    I always vote. Every election. School boards. State judges. Railroad Commissioner. I have even gone to the fire station to make no selection in every

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  • “Between Midnight and Dawn”

    2026-01-11 elrichiboy
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  • “This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”

    2026-01-03 elrichiboy
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  • Shopping South El Paso Street

    2025-12-22 Rich Wright

    South El Paso Street is El Paso’s most vibrant street. In the daytime, South El Paso Street is what our city planners aspire to. Walkable,

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  • “Fire Maidens from Outer Space”

    2025-12-21 elrichiboy
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  • “White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”

    2025-12-20 elrichiboy
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  • Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact

    2025-12-17 Rich Wright

    Here’s another article critical about Project Jupiter. This critique is environmental. From Truthout.org: At the very Southeastern tip of New Mexico bordering Texas and Mexico,

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  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”

    2025-12-14 elrichiboy
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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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Crossing Over

2015-03-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Do you need a passport to come back from Mexico? Longtime Juarez day-tripper Tom doesn’t think so. “I never bring

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Is he just baiting me?

2015-03-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Noted helicopter blogger David K had this to say in a recent column about the new ordinance the City is

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Well, that’s a surprise

2015-03-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The owners of the blog site Building San Jacinto Plaza have shut it down. Now we’ll never know.

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Monarch (It’s Comfortable!)

2015-03-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Uncategorized 5 comments

Are you still officing out of Starbucks? You should fold up your portfolio and move it over to Monarch. Monarch

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Hot Potato

2015-03-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Here’s a story problem in political calculus: If you were elected to public office, and the previous administration had incurred

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The Chicano Mexican-American Hispanic Cultural Museum

2015-03-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

What we don’t need is another museum downtown that gets as much traffic as a mausoleum. How about, instead of

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Managing the Public Image

2015-03-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a report that Mexico paid Sony big bucks not to cast our southern neighbor in a negative, though perhaps

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Would you let your daughter date a guy like that?

2015-03-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Imagine if our local government were a person. Would you want that person for a friend? Would you trust that

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The Downtown Paradox

2015-03-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

The buildings all sell for millions of dollars, but you can rent them for hundreds. Everybody’s holding out for the

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NASA Scientist Says California Has One Year of Water Left

2015-03-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an Op-Ed from the LA Times, in which a NASA scientist claims that the Golden State is running dry.

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The Wall Street Journal on Public Money for Professional Sports Stadiums

2015-03-12 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

You guys may have missed the story in Monday’s Wall Street Journal titled “Pro Stadiums, Public Money.” It’s behind a

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