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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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  • “The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

    2025-10-18 elrichiboy

    Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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  • Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-10-17 Rich Wright

    Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing organizations. In response to the

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  • Ninja Convention

    2025-10-16 Rich Wright

    The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade on Montana last night. Kudos

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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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Mmm, Yogurt

2014-07-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Well, the El Paso Times reports that a yogurt shop is opening downtown: A combined TCBY frozen yogurt/Mrs. Fields cookies

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From Paris (or anywhere but El Paso) With Love

2014-07-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In a related note, Homegrown El Paso is starting a music festival at Ascarate Park. According to this story in

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Can El Paso Go Bankrupt?

2014-07-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I mean, we’re not like other towns. We have assets. We own real estate. The Public Service Board (that’s the

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Those Pesky Secret Emails

2014-07-29 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Law Enforcement, Politics Leave a comment

In order to understand the content of those secret emails that we’re never going to see, I consulted my trusty

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Our Troubles are Over

2014-07-21 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

Good news for those of you who were worried about El Paso’s economic development: The Borderplex Alliance is proposing a

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You Decide

2014-07-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in the local rag, there’s a new lawsuit over police shooting an unarmed man. Here’s part

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That was then. This is now.

2014-07-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Let’s pretend. Say you were a certain high-ranking city employee, and you made some controversial decisions in your official capacity,

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El Paso Vice: the Drug War Through a Gimlet Eye

2014-07-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a piece that originally appeared in Der Spiegel, and was reprinted on the ABC News website. The war on

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El Paso’s Chief Debt Enabler Resigns, Takes Job in “Private Sector”

2014-07-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Media, Politics Leave a comment

The City’s Chief Financial Officer and debt enabler has tendered her resignation, according to this article in El Paso’s English

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The Case of the Missing Deputy City Manager

2014-07-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This week’s El Paso Inc. has another chiaroscuro report from the ever so subtle Mr. David Crowder. The article lays

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Al Jazeera Says Americans Don’t Trust Media

2014-06-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to Al Jazeera, Americans trust in media is at an all time low. Faith in print media is down

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Vice.com on the Case of Danny Saenz, Deceased

2014-06-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s Vice weighing in on the the case of Danny Saenz. The headline for the article is “El Paso Releases

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The Case of Danny Saenz, Deceased

2014-06-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did you see the horrific video of El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shooting handcuffed prisoner Danny Saenz? The City

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Start With Day Lilies

2014-06-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Are you looking for an income opportunity in your retirement years? Are you afraid that you won’t be able to

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Corrections

2014-06-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

For literally years I’ve been ranting about Texas Municipal Code Chapter 334, the one that deals with sports venues. Most

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The Third Court of Appeals on Secret Emails

2014-06-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

Here’s the latest on El Paso’s open records request (though it doesn’t deal specifically with El Paso’s case). Here’s a

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Jobs Outlook

2014-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

When the new City Manager takes over, will he replace the members of the City Administration who enabled all the

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Editorializing on the Times

2014-06-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized 6 comments

The El Paso Times today editorialized on the need to hurry up and build the “signature downtown projects” authorized by

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Internal Affairs Boss Out at Border Patrol

2014-06-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Yesterday we covered, a little bit, the problems the Border Patrol was having with its use-of-force investigations. Today, the man

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John Oliver and the World Cup

2014-06-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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