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  • Retrovision: Billares El Cid

    2025-08-12 Rich Wright

    This post originally appeared on 12 October 2017. I’m not sure if the information is current. Like everything else in Mexico, like wealth and income

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  • We Don’t Need No Stinking Ethics

    2025-08-11 Rich Wright

    Isn’t it a violation of the City’s ethics rules for Mayor Renard Johnson to support the deck park when he owns apartments only a half

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  • “Criminal Lawyer”

    2025-08-10 elrichiboy
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  • “The Book of Enoch – What the Church Tried to Hide”

    2025-08-09 elrichiboy
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  • The History and Geography of Cartels in Juarez

    2025-08-08 Rich Wright

    Here’s an insightful portrait of the criminal organizations in Ciudad Juarez, their histories, and their geographic domains, from InsightCrime.org1: If you ask most Juarenses, “the

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  • What Redistricting Means to El Paso

    2025-08-07 Rich Wright

    From KTSM.com: The El Paso City Council has officially taken a stance to oppose Texas Republican legislators’ proposed redistricting map. . . . Republicans’ proposed

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  • “Liminal Spaces: A Border Dialogue” Art Opening This Friday

    2025-08-06 elrichiboy
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  • Let’s Put the Deck Park to a Vote

    2025-08-04 Rich Wright

    Isn’t that the way things get decided in a democracy? I know, elections are expensive, but not as expensive as a $400 million deck park.

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  • “Trapped”

    2025-08-03 elrichiboy
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  • “Bolivia: La vida en las nubes | Las carreteras más peligrosas del mundo”

    2025-08-02 elrichiboy
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  • The “Notorious NARCOTIC Smuggler” La Nacha: The El Paso Years

    2025-07-31 Bob Chessey

    So, “Who was ‘La Nacha’?” For 50 years “La Nacha” remained a name synonymous with Juarez and opiate trafficking, a woman who rose to become

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  • Garbage Revisited

    2025-07-29 Rich Wright

    Don’t you imagine that the City’s Environmental Services Department would love to get its hands on the local dumpster services? The ESD is one of

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El Paso: It’s Almost Good

2014-05-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in the El Paso Times, City Council will ask Joyce Wilson to stand out of the

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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

2014-05-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics, Uncategorized 4 comments

Well, just like I predicted, the El Paso City Council has offered the job of City Manager to former Irving,

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Spring in El Paso

2014-05-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The wind chuffs at a respectably constant 20+ miles per hour, with occasional gusts of forty or fifty or sixty.

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Best Friends Forever

2014-05-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

I don’t want to queer the deal by pointing it out, but El Paso finally has an effective voice in

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The Die is Cast

2014-05-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

You have, by now, no doubt, seen the list of candidates for El Paso’s next City Manager. I’m opining that

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The Mennonite Connection

2014-04-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a piece about Mennonites smuggling cocaine into Canada: Jacob Fehr was sentenced last week to seven years in prison

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At least they’re not peeing on the Alamo

2014-04-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

He probably thought it was just any old historic mission: A judge ordered a 23-year-old El Paso man to spend

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Is it trickle down economics if someone’s peeing on your leg?

2014-04-15 elrichiboy Economic Development Leave a comment

More good news for the people who are responsible for El Paso’s economic development, the Borderplex Alliance. Business is booming

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How About El Paso?

2014-04-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

All you chile-heads have probably been following this story about Sriracha’s fight with the city of Irwindale, California. For those

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300 MPG Volkswagen Not Available in the USA

2014-04-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story that maintains that Americans are being denied the opportunity to buy cars with fuel-efficient technology because oil

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It’s a Good Day

2014-03-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Your life just got way better and you didn’t even know it. Here’s a story in which a World Bank

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Tarnished Brands: The Abuse of Trust

2014-03-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Maybe you saw this piece about the 120 most trusted brands in America. Brand management is serious business, and it

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We’re not in Kansas

2014-03-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from KSHB in Kansas City, explaining how police obtained a search warrant for a home which resulted

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Murder at Yankee’s Bar

2014-03-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story in LaPolaka, a man was killed in Yankee’s Bar this weekend after getting into an argument

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They mean well, I think.

2014-03-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I don’t hate El Paso. I’m not against downtown development. What I hate are people who pretend that they know

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Leeser is kind of like Obama

2014-03-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

Lots of the people who voted for Oscar Leeser, expecting Hope and Change, must be kind of disappointed that he’s

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The Big Picture

2014-03-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The sad part is that the Borderplex Alliance can’t brag about its successes. At least, not in El Paso. But

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The More Things Change . . .

2014-03-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in La Polaka, the new commandant of the the Federal Police in Juarez, Jorge Armando Pavón

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Secret Emails and the Lizard People

2014-03-10 elrichiboy City Council, Politics One comment

Every citizen of El Paso should be troubled by the City’s actions, and inactions, concerning the “secret” emails demanded by

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Downtown El Paso: The Land of Opportunity

2014-03-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Good news for all those ballpark advocates: There is still lots of opportunity in downtown El Paso! With the Southwestern

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