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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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“Gone, Fishing”

2023-05-05 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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El Chuco and The Rock

2023-05-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

From InsideTheMagic.net: Actor Dwayne Johnson is being sued in a massive $3 billion lawsuit, and the case just made progress

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Cassandra Hernandez and Gasgate

2023-05-04 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, Politics, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Last night I got this email from Max Grossman: The Financial Oversight and Audit Committee (FOAC) will be meeting tomorrow

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“Untold History of the United States: Bush, Obama and the age of terror”

2023-04-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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“Normality”

2023-04-28 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Climate Town — “The Troll Army of Big Oil”

2023-04-27 elrichiboy Climate Town, Video Leave a comment
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“The Secret Life of a Female Yakuza Boss”

2023-04-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized, Video Leave a comment
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Buried in Debt

2023-04-25 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

I lifted this image from the FY2023 City of El Paso Budget Book: You’ll notice that this year we payed

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Community First Coalition Voting Guide

2023-04-24 elrichiboy Elections, Slider 3 comments

Here’s a voting guide prepared by the Community First Coalition. The Community First Coalition is made up of local organizations

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Max Grossman: 318 BANKRUPTCIES IN EL PASO FROM JANUARY TO MARCH, UP 32.5% OVER LAST YEAR

2023-04-20 Max Grossman Max Grossman, Slider, The Economy 2 comments

by Max Grossman According to today’s issue of the Paso del Norte Economic Indicator Review of the Hunt Institute for Global

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My Take: About the City’s New Bond Rating

2023-04-18 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Strategic Plan, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

by Rich Wright I get it. If you can believe everything the City is telling us (always a dubious proposition),

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Max Grossman: About a New Bond Rating for the City

2023-04-18 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

by Max Grossman Luisa Barrios of KTSM 9 News broke the “news” on Thursday that the Kroll Bond Rating Agency

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New Podcast Episode: What’s Up With Prop I?

2023-04-17 Rich Wright El Chuqueño Presents Leave a comment

What’s Prop I? From ElPasoMatters.com: El Paso voters are being asked to decide whether the city should lift a long-time

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Who Is Behind the Prop K Propaganda?

2023-04-12 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Elections, Slider, The Environment One comment

We the people are supposed to know who is financing election high jinks. There are laws for that. Unfortunately, the

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Tollgate Canyon, New Mexico

2023-04-11 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

by John Mulhouse Take the Flat Way Home If you’re reading this it means I’ve managed to successfully upload the

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“Adios, Amigos”

2023-04-11 Rich Wright Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, population, Taxes 7 comments

El Paso’s population growth continues to stagnate, according to this report in ElPasoMatters.org: El Paso County’s population grew by fewer

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CITY COUNCIL TO VOTE ON FATE OF STREETCARS, WHICH LOSE $2.9M PER YEAR, COSTING TAXPAYERS $44.61 PER RIDE!

2023-04-10 Max Grossman City Council, Slider, Taxes, Trolley 3 comments

by Max Grossman Tomorrow under agenda item 17 our City Council will decide the fate of our insolvent streetcars, which are

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“The Scapegoat”

2023-04-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Potatoes – South America’s Gift to the World”

2023-04-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Mary Pickford in D.W. Griffith’s “Friends”

2023-04-07 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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