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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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  • “The Spider”

    2025-06-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

    2025-06-21 elrichiboy
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  • “The First Livestreamed Genocide”

    2025-06-21 Rich Wright

    From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves.

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  • I Don’t Like Bullies

    2025-06-20 Rich Wright

    On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not bullies anymore.” Wait a minute.

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  • Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

    2025-06-18 Rich Wright

    Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision to eliminate it. From KVIA.com:

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  • STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso

    2025-06-16 Paul Dickerson

    by Paul Dickerson This morning, I was crossing the Puente Paso del Norte back to El Paso after running a pressing errand in Ciudad Juárez.

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  • “Outside the Law”

    2025-06-15 elrichiboy
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  • “Colombian Cartels: Meet the World’s Biggest Drug Suppliers”

    2025-06-14 elrichiboy
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  • Dead People

    2025-06-13 Rich Wright

    I am of an age where I know lots of dead people. Some, of course, have been dead for a while. Hollywood. Asshole Bob. Jimmy

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  • “The League of Gentlemen”

    2025-06-08 elrichiboy
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  • “1964: The Year That Changed America”

    2025-06-07 elrichiboy
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“Lots of Empty Spaces”

2023-03-07 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, population, Slider 7 comments

Here’s a story from the El Paso Times headlined Downtown El Paso’s vacant buildings await next wave of redevelopment: Lots

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Can’t We Do Better?

2023-03-07 elrichiboy City Management, El Paso Inc. One comment

This item appeared in the Whispers column of this week’s El Paso Inc.: So, who’s next? As you know, the

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Ancient History — Mayor John Cook’s Interview with the El Paso Inc.

2023-03-05 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Mayor John Cook, Quality of Life Projects, Slider One comment

From 9 June 2013: “Why are we making a significant investment in Downtown? The answer’s very simple. When I come

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“The Most Dangerous Game”

2023-03-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Gregg Allman – “Will the Circle Be Unbroken”

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Max Grossman: “THE FIRING OF CITY MANAGER GONZALEZ: OPEN LETTER TO REPS. HERNANDEZ, SALCIDO AND RIVERA”

2023-03-04 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

March 3, 2023 Rep. Cassandra HernandezRep. Isabel SalcidoRep. Henry Rivera City of El Paso300 N. Campbell St.El Paso, TX 79901

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“Why The US Prison System Is The Worst In The Developed World”

2023-03-04 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Retrovision — This Guy Got Beat Up By the (Alleged) Kern Place Dog Killer

2023-03-03 elrichiboy Slider Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 08 March 2018. That’s Mark Boykin, the proprieter of Mark’s Cantina. Three years ago Mr.

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“Hellbender”

2023-03-03 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Why Tommy Gonzalez Got Fired

2023-03-03 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 10 comments

It happened. El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez got canned Tuesday after 7 or 8 years on the job. By

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Retrovision: Max Grossman — “OUR WATERPARKS ARE A GIANT FINANCIAL BLACK HOLE”

2023-02-27 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 12 comments

This is the text of an email that I received 30 September 2022. by Max Grossman THE OPERATING DEFICIT OF

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Gregory Peck in “Night People”

2023-02-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The USA Loves To Meddle In Other Countries”

2023-02-25 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Max Grossman — “THE CASE FOR FIRING TOMMY GONZALEZ”

2023-02-24 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 11 comments

by Max Grossman Tommy Gonzalez became City Manager of the City of El Paso on June 23, 2014. So what

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Economic Development : We’ve Been Doing It Wrong.

2023-02-19 Rich Wright Borderplex Alliance, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

The Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Foundation hired the Perryman Group to study and propose some suggestions regarding Economic Development

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“How Liberty Dies: The Politics of Star Wars”

2023-02-18 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Fresh Guacamole by PES”

2023-02-17 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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More Blood From a Turnip

2023-02-15 Rich Wright El Paso Water, Slider, Taxes One comment

You probably got a letter from El Paso Water last week. The letter announced a new fee that our municipally-owned

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The City’s “Slush Fund”

2023-02-15 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Karla Nieman, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

by Max Grossman If you pay a monthly water bill like I do, you will notice a tax levied by

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Economic Development?

2023-02-14 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Everybody’s talking about all the Economic Development taking place downtown. Here, for instance, is that nice lady who has taken

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