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  • El Paso is Falling

    2026-03-13 Rich Wright

    The trusted institutions we count on are letting us down. The streets are crumbling. The water utility can’t keep the water flowing. Texas Gas Services

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  • The 13th Anniversary of the Killing of Daniel Saenz

    2026-03-08 Rich Wright

    Today is the 13th anniversary of the day that El Paso Police Department Officer Jose Flores shot and killed the handcuffed prisoner Daniel Saenz in

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  • Lucille Ball in “The Dark Corner”

    2026-03-08 elrichiboy
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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part Two: Preface and Postscript to “Black Sunday”

    2026-03-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson On a recent sunny day, tourists and locals on Puerto Vallarta’s ocean front boardwalk, the Malecon, watched intensely as a Mexican navy

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  • The Biggest Campaign of the Season

    2026-03-02 Rich Wright

    The biggest campaign of this election season isn’t taking place by any candidate on the ballot. The President of the University of Texas at El

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  • Economic Undevelopment

    2026-02-25 Rich Wright

    According to ElDiario.mx, El Paso lost 750 jobs in the last four months of 2025. Juarez lost 17,000 maquila jobs in all of 2025. That

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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part One: Hurricane Mencho

    2026-02-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Fear, hunger, thirst and uncertainty. That’s what folks in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco lived through on February 22, now undoubtedly one of the

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  • “Where Texas Begins”

    2026-02-21 Rich Wright

    The latest (several years old) tagline from Visit El Paso/the Convention and Visitors Center/Destination El Paso appears to be “Where Texas Begins”. Of course Texas

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  • Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall in “Confidential Agent”

    2026-02-15 elrichiboy
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  • “You’re Fired!”

    2026-02-14 Rich Wright

    Remember when Donald Trump’s tagline was “You’re fired!” One might think that he’d be pulling that old standard out again, what with the clown car

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  • “YEMEN: A Forgotten Earth Where Time Still Breathes”

    2026-02-14 elrichiboy
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  • “Love in a Man’s World”

    2026-02-08 elrichiboy
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The New Feudalism

2023-01-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, El Paso Water, Slider, Urban Planning, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Water rates are going up again, for the eighth year in a row. From the El Paso Times: El Paso

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“The History of Rigged Super Bowls”

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“The Soft-Boiled Detective”

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Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard in “The Cat and the Canary”

2023-01-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Bad Friend”

2023-01-07 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Economic Development for the Few

2023-01-07 Rich Wright Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Some of those arena advocates act like it’s our patriotic duty to support downtown development. “Economic development,” they say. “Fortune

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Did You Feel That Earthquake?

2023-01-03 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Politics, Slider 9 comments

My personal seismograph put the epicenter at City Hall. Damages haven’t been assessed yet, but I’m hoping it’s a lot.

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About the Arena

2023-01-03 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Economics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena One comment

Advocates say we need the arena as an engine of economic development. That’s not how economic development works. If you

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Retrovision: “How Quickly They Forget”

2023-01-02 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes One comment

This article originally appeared on 2022 August 31. I stumbled across this gem the other day. From the El Paso

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“Somewhere in the Night”

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The Three Mummies: A New Year’s Ode to Ghost Voices

2023-01-01 Kent Paterson Juarez, Mexico, Slider One comment

By Kent Paterson They stand on an El Paso street like the shadowy, eerie artifacts of a forgotten ancient civilization.

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Quality of Life Much?

2022-12-30 Rich Wright Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 5 comments

Woody and Gayle Hunt are El Paso Inc.’s El Pasoans of the year, 2022. Here are couple of things that

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The 1930 Running of the Cerveza

2022-12-22 Bob Chessey History, Juarez, Slider 3 comments

by Bob Chessey A Tale of Pacing and Endurance Summer’s end in 1930 was proving to be a tough time

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THE BRIDGE OF STONES: A MIGRANT CHRISTMAS STORY

2022-12-20 Kent Paterson Immigration, Mexico, Migration, Slider 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Carefully treading a crossing of slippery stones strung across the shallow Rio Grande between Ciudad Juárez and

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A New Day

2022-12-20 Rich Wright City Council, Elections, Slider 2 comments

Three of the four candidates supported by the plutocrats Woody Hunt and Paul Foster lost their runoffs. Does this mean

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Cary Grant in “People Will Talk”

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“Car Thieves vs the Final GlitterBomb 5.0”

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A Question of Eligibility

2022-12-15 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Corruption, Laura D. Prine, Politics, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Is Bettina Olivares eligible to serve as the City Representative for District 8? Here’s the part of the Municipal Code

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“Captain Scarface”

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe – “Up Above My Head”

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