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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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Why Democracy Will Never Work in El Paso

2014-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“If it’s entirely a numbers game—numeric representation—then obviously you’d be talking to half the people in Hong Kong [that] earn

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Marketing Advice from today’s Wall Street Journal

2014-10-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Find your identity, and then throw everything you have behind that, because that’s going to be the most honest and

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Something to Consider

2014-10-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“The No. 1 most significant risk to every organization is your well-intentioned, nonmalicious insider.” – Jeff Leek, chief information security

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The Impending, Ongoing, QoL Bond Fiasco

2014-10-18 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Media 6 comments

Bad news for the Quality of Life Bond advocates. You got sold a pig in a poke. Remember when they

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If they can’t read, how can we expect them to write?

2014-10-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story from the August 16, 2014, El Paso Times, headlined US Department of State re-issues warning about traveling to

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California Assemblyman Jess Unruh on Lobbyists

2014-10-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“If you can’t drink their booze, take their money, sleep with their women and then vote against ’em, you don’t

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Buying Government Influence for Less $

2014-10-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m a little disturbed by Beto’s latest campaign move, to solicit donations of less than $200 from enough people to

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The Secrets of the Ballpark’s Financing

2014-10-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a little nugget I gleaned from Local Government Code Chapter 334, the ordinance under which we were gifted the

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Are UTEP Students Getting Their Money’s Worth?

2014-10-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Is UTEP one of the ten best universities in the country? Is it as good as UNM? The University of

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Legalizing Drugs

2014-09-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a wacky idea from some of the top institutional minds in the world, including former U.N. Secretary General Kofi

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How to Increase Voter Participation, Texas-Style

2014-09-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Recently there’s been a lot of chatter about increasing voter participation rates here in El Paso. The election of the

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The Murky Future Revealed

2014-09-23 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

You may recall that the City of El Paso is scrambling to make up a $3.5 million dollar shortfall in

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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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