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  • King David

    2025-08-13 Rich Wright

    From up above, from a rooftop, or an upper window, they could be dancing. The hip hop thumps from the oversize speakers in the trunk

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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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“Rich Hall’s Red Menace”

2023-07-29 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Lincoln County, NM, Dismisses All Criminal Cases for Last 2 1/2 Years

2023-07-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment
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“8 Hours in Juarez”

2023-07-27 elrichiboy Juarez, Juarez Walking Tour, Slider Leave a comment
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Retrovision: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About TIRZs*

2023-07-26 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich One comment

*That the City doesn’t want you to know. This post originally appeared on 23 May 2018. What is a Tax

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“On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant”

2023-07-25 elrichiboy Business, Culture, Slider 4 comments

by David Graeber From StrikeMagazine.org: In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century’s end, technology would have

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Tornillo Truck Crossing to Resume in August

2023-07-24 elrichiboy Bridge of the Americas, Mexico, Slider One comment

From BorderReport.com: A border crossing built to spare urban areas in El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, of heavy commercial

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“Loan Shark”

2023-07-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“China vs. United States”

2023-07-22 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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CITY DEBT APPROACHING $3 BILLION!

2023-07-18 elrichiboy Debt, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

by Max Grossman According to page 79 of the FY 2023 Budget Book, our City owes $2,257,059,064, of which $851,565,991

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El Paso’s Population Soars to 700,698 In 2021* [Updated]

2023-07-17 Rich Wright Arrogance, City Council, City Management, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin, Liar Liar, population, Slider Leave a comment

by Rich Wright From Page 3 of the City’s El Paso Uptown+Downtown Citywide Market Analysis Appendix: From the fine print:

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CITY BUDGET TO INCREASE TO $1.3B FOR FY 2024, HERNANDEZ WANTS MORE DEBT

2023-07-16 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

by Max Grossman Cindy Ramirez of El Paso Matters published a substantive report on the ongoing budget talks in City

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“A Woman’s Vengeance”

2023-07-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Climate Change – Averting Catastrophe”

2023-07-15 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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DID A THIRD INDIVIDUAL USE HERNANDEZ’S GAS CARD?

2023-07-14 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, Corruption, FOAC, Gassandrgate, Slider 3 comments

by Max Grossman Rep. Cassandra Hernandez purchased 35% of all gas purchased by the City Council and Mayor in 2022,

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The Brady List

2023-07-13 Rich Wright Crime, Dionne Mack, El Paso Police Department, Law Enforcement, Slider One comment

From ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso Police Department announced the arrests of five of its officers in connection with three separate

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“The Man From Cairo”

2023-07-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“What Just Emerged in Antarctica Terrifies the Whole World”

2023-07-08 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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JORDAN AND HERNANDEZ ARE CONNECTED TO DEBORAH PAZ!

2023-07-06 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Gassandrgate, Slider Leave a comment

by Max Grossman Several days ago, a PAC called “Women’s Voices for Political Reform” proclaimed that on July 5 they

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Have You Lost Your Voice?

2023-07-04 elrichiboy Support El Chuqueño Leave a comment

Some of my best followers can’t comment on some of the posts. I don’t know why that is. Hackers? Extraterrestrials?

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“Nightmare”

2023-07-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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