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  • The Strategic Plan of the City of El Paso – A Critique

    2023-03-28 Rich Wright

    It’s good to have a plan. Like the Cheshire Cat said to Alice, if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you

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  • God Bless Dee Margo

    2023-03-20 Rich Wright

    Poor Dee Margo. He is completely out of touch. Here’s a paragraph from his recent response to an open letter from Mayor Oscar Leeser: Under

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  • Report From Juarez

    2023-03-15 elrichiboy

    I am an accidental witness to recent turmoil in Juarez. Last Wednesday I walked into a riot. I was looking for a stop where I

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  • Retrovision — Economic Impact

    2023-03-11 elrichiboy

    This article originally appeared on 17 January 2017. What do you think has more effect on the El Paso economy. A downtown arena, or the

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  • “Lots of Empty Spaces”

    2023-03-07 elrichiboy

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

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

    2023-03-05 elrichiboy

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

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

    2023-03-04 elrichiboy

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

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  • Retrovision — This Guy Got Beat Up By the (Alleged) Kern Place Dog Killer

    2023-03-03 elrichiboy

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

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  • Why Tommy Gonzalez Got Fired

    2023-03-03 elrichiboy

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

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

    2023-02-27 Max Grossman

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

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  • Max Grossman — “THE CASE FOR FIRING TOMMY GONZALEZ”

    2023-02-24 Max Grossman

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

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  • Economic Development : We’ve Been Doing It Wrong.

    2023-02-19 Rich Wright

    The Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Foundation hired the Perryman Group to study and propose some suggestions regarding Economic Development in El Paso, and guess

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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”

2022-12-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Car Thieves vs the Final GlitterBomb 5.0”

2022-12-17 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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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”

2022-12-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe – “Up Above My Head”

2022-12-11 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“This is Venezuela (2022) – Why 20% of the Population Has Fled”

2022-12-10 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary One comment
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“PROJECT-19”

2022-12-09 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Future of Downtowns

2022-12-09 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Downtown, Slider One comment

The City of El Paso (that is you, the taxpayer) is spending millions, or tens of millions, or hundreds of

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El Paso Police Are Taser Happy and the El Paso Times Doesn’t Want You to Know It

2022-12-08 Rich Wright Chief Greg Allen, City Council, City Management, El Paso Police Department, El Paso Times, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of the El Paso Times: One night in October

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Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Paradine Case”

2022-12-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The Oak Ridge Boys – “Life’s Railway to Heaven”

2022-12-04 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“The Propaganda War Waged Over the Iraq Invasion”

2022-12-03 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“The Specter of Nuclear War, Revisited (New Mexico, 2022)”

2022-12-02 elrichiboy Perspectives, Slider Leave a comment

This was written by a girl I get to sleep with sometimes: I’ve spent a lot of time in the

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“The Case of the Missing Puzzle Box”

2022-12-02 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Latest Outrage

2022-11-28 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Arena, Veronica Escobar 5 comments

From CBS4Local: As CBS4’s John Purvis reported in a Tough Questions Special Report last week, the federal government’s planned expansion

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Humphrey Bogart in “Dead End”

2022-11-27 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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