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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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George Bancroft and Fay Wray in Thunderbolt (1929)

2022-03-20 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Pentatonix – Hallelujah

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Frontline – Putin’s Road to War

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Arcade Fire – The Lightning I, II

2022-03-18 elrichiboy Music 2 comments
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Next to Last Call for Redistricting

2022-03-16 elrichiboy City Council, Redistricting, Slider One comment

As you probably know, the City of El Paso is in the throes of redrawing district boundaries. The City Charter

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Luis Aguilar and Lucha Villa in “Agarrando Parejo”

2022-03-15 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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El Ojo del Chuco

2022-03-15 elrichiboy History, Juarez 2 comments

This isn’t my first blog. If you’d asked me yesterday, I would have said it is, but today I stumbled

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2CELLOS – Thunderstruck

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The Ongoing Class War

2022-03-14 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Have I ever mentioned that it feels like the City of El Paso, and the El Paso Chamber of Commerce,

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The October Man (1947)

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Celtic Worship – How Great Thou Art

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Petroglyphs

2022-03-12 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Last weekend we went to see some petroglyphs. They were out there past the Border Patrol checkpoint on I-10. By

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The Case of Phil Spector

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Mutiny!

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Endurance wreck: Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship found off Antarctica

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Antonio Badu in “Las coronelas”

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9 Years Ago

2022-03-08 Rich Wright Chief Greg Allen, City Council, City Management, El Paso Police Department, Law Enforcement, Slider, Veronica Escobar One comment

On March 8, 2013, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot the handcuffed prisoner Danny Saenz in the sallyport of

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James Mason in The Upturned Glass

2022-03-06 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Jara Bolivia – El amor de Dios

2022-03-06 elrichiboy Music One comment
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TEDx El Paso: A City Reimagined

2022-03-04 Rich Wright ballpark, Chamber of Commerce, City Management, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez, TxDOT 6 comments

Saturday, March 5 (tomorrow, or today, or last week, depending on when you are reading this) TEDx El Paso is

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