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  • Social Engineering Chuco-Style

    2025-09-26 Rich Wright

    I live in a neighborhood I call Barrio Heights. Barrio Heights is below Rim Road, close to El Paso High. The houses in Barrio Heights

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  • Community First Coalition Forum on Affordable Housing

    2025-09-25 elrichiboy

    The Community First Coalition is hosting a forum on the housing challenges facing the local community. Everybody needs housing, and in the current climate, we

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  • Book Launch: “Juarez | Tales from a Misunderstood City”

    2025-09-24 elrichiboy
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  • You and the Juarez Walking Tour

    2025-09-22 Rich Wright

    I’ve been offering Juarez Walking Tours to anyone willing to pay my meager fee for more than 10 years. Over that period, I’ve barely taken

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  • “The Pretender”

    2025-09-21 elrichiboy
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  • “Europe in the Wake of the Fall of Rome”

    2025-09-20 elrichiboy
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  • Paul Foster is Selling Land in his Campo del Sol Development

    2025-09-19 Rich Wright

    From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council unanimously approved an amendment to a 2020 incentives agreement to allow for the sale of 45 acres in the

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  • “The Eyes of Chihuahua”

    2025-09-18 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from TexasObserver.org about the Torre Centinela, that surveillance tower going up in downtown Ciudad Juarez that will soon be looking over our

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  • The Project Jupiter Chronicles: A Charged Countdown to September 19

    2025-09-17 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson September 19 looms as a fateful day in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. That’s when the Doña Ana County Commission will meet

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  • El Paso Matter’s Fight for Higher Taxes

    2025-09-15 Rich Wright

    Two recent articles on ElPasoMatters.com portray El Paso as a low-tax city. Here’s a snippet from one of the pieces: To understand the impact of

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  • Heath Haussaman on Project Jupiter

    2025-09-11 Rich Wright

    Here’s veteran journalist Heath Haussaman with a deep dive into the $165 billion Project Jupiter that’s proposed for Sunland Park. ARTICLE SUMMARY:On its face Project

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  • “The Fat Man”

    2025-09-07 elrichiboy
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“Salesman”

2022-10-29 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Female Empowerment”

2022-10-28 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Dave Marino on the Proposed Bonds

2022-10-25 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments
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“People From ‘Up and Coming’ Cities”

2022-10-23 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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“The Economy of Tomorrow”

2022-10-22 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Taxes & Tax Incentives

2022-10-17 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Rich Wright for District 8 Platform, Taxes 10 comments

Taxes are killing the local economy. Taxes hurt small businesses two ways. First, our punitive tax rates take a big

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The City Manager’s Contract

2022-10-17 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Rich Wright for District 8 Platform, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

The City Manager’s contract is ridiculous. $400+ k a year plus benefits that put him well north half a million

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Widening the Freeway/The Deck

2022-10-17 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Rich Wright for District 8 Platform, TxDOT, Widening I-10 One comment

I am against widening the freeway, and subsequently building a deck over it. Widening the freeway to reduce traffic is

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The Arena

2022-10-17 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Rich Wright for District 8 Platform, The Arena Leave a comment

Building a $180 miilion arena in Duranguito was a bad idea 10 years ago, and it’s a bad idea now,

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El Paso is Unique

2022-10-17 Rich Wright Economic Development, Political Advertisement, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Water Parks 3 comments

El Paso is as culturally unique as New Orleans, or San Francisco, or Key West. There is no place in

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“Pickup”

2022-10-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Southern Raised – “What a Day That Will Be”

2022-10-16 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“Coverup – Behind the Iran Contra Affair”

2022-10-15 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Dinner for few”

2022-10-14 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Those Folks at City Hall Think They’re Special

2022-10-07 Rich Wright Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider Leave a comment

The elected officials dress up, and look down at us from the dais, and once a week they might have

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Big Signs Available

2022-10-05 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Slider 2 comments

Hey, I’ve got some of these big (4′ x 8′) signs available. If you live in District 8, and have

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Juarez Loses a Defender of the People

2022-10-03 Vanessa Johnson History, Juarez, Slider One comment

by Vanessa Johnson Beto Dominguez Rodriguez passed away on September 16, 2022, at 4 p.m., surrounded by his loved ones,

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Rich Wright Fundraiser This Thursday

2022-10-03 Rich Wright Political Advertisement 4 comments
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“Dark Journey”

2022-10-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Billy Preston – “You Can’t Beat God Giving”

2022-10-02 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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