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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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Tommy Gonzalez Doesn’t Share Our Values

2022-09-16 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Strategic Plan, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

The City can’t stop spending your money. Here’s a story from KFOXtv.com titled ‘We haven’t given up on Great Wolf

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“The Predestination Effect”

2022-09-16 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Ballad of a Corrido, Part One

2022-09-15 Bob Chessey History, Juarez, Mexico, Slider One comment

Gabriel Jara and Tom Threepersons’ Border Shootout. by Bob Chessey On the summer evening of Saturday, June 14, 1924, two

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“Arena” Meeting TODAY at 5:30

2022-09-15 elrichiboy City Management, Gensler, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Surprise! CBS4Local reports that the City is hosting a meeting regarding the arena at 5:30 today in the large conference

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“Woman on the Run”

2022-09-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Our Neighbors Committed Mass Murder, Here’s What We Did”

2022-09-10 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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What I’ll Do If I’m Elected

2022-09-10 Rich Wright City Council, Culture, Economic Development, Elections, Political Advertisement 3 comments

El Paso is a great city. I never thought we needed to spend a billion dollars to fix it. There

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“The Last Theft”

2022-09-09 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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“Why Do (Some) Humans Love Chile?”

2022-09-09 elrichiboy Culture, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

From Sapiens.org: Psychology researchers, on the other hand, have posited that some people’s preference for capsaicin-containing foods is related to

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Rock and Roll Never Forgets

2022-09-08 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Cissy Lizarraga, It's All Good, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Max Grossman reports that District 8 Representative Cissy Lizarraga is appointing Steffen Poessiger to the City’s Historic Landmark Commission. You

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El Paso City Government is a Lamborghini

2022-09-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

The City’s share of property taxes on the median priced home went up 6% this year. You can read about

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“El Paso Del Norte”

2022-09-05 elrichiboy Video 2 comments
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Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in “The African Queen”

2022-09-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Psychology of Crowd Manipulation”

2022-09-03 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary One comment
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The City Hall Budget

2022-09-02 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

Did you see Adam Powell’s story at ElPasoTimes.com? It’s headlined City Hall’s budget is set: What will El Pasoans get

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“Delectable You”

2022-09-02 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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How Quickly They Forget

2022-08-31 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

I stumbled across this gem the other day. From the El Paso Chamber of Commerce: Recommended Action [regarding the 2012

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Gogol Bordello – “Start Wearing Purple”

2022-08-29 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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La Bouche Manouche featuring Irene Serra

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You Can Help!

2022-08-29 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Slider Leave a comment

I’ll tell you the truth. It’s hard for me to ask for help. But this time, I need your help

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