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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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Willow Worship – Resurrection Medley

2022-04-17 elrichiboy Music One comment
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“Catherine the Great – Russia’s Greatest Empress”

2022-04-16 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Oasis”

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Homeowners Carry the Burden

2022-04-14 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Here’s a couple of factoids I extracted from this El Paso Times article about rising property valuations: The overall market

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City Council to Vote on Districting

2022-04-14 Rich Wright City Council, Redistricting, Slider One comment

City Council will meet in a Special Session this afternoon with only one item on the agenda: Discussion and action

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Tin Tan in “La Tijera de Oro”

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Jaguars, Almonds, and Mary Jane

2022-04-11 Kent Paterson How to Live in El Paso, Marijuana, Slider Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson Well, it’s finally come to pass. Denizens of the Land of Enchantment – and their neighbors –

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“Politicians Outperformed Hedge Funds in 2021!!”

2022-04-11 Rich Wright Video Leave a comment
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Gary Cooper in “The Naked Edge”

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Congratulations, Tommy G!

2022-04-09 Rich Wright Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Look at this ad in this week’s El Paso Inc.: Did you see who the ad’s apparent sponsors are? Who

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“The CIA’s Plot to Assassinate Julian Assange”

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“Checkpoint”

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El Paso’s Class War is Not Happenstance

2022-04-08 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Lina Ortega, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

In their recent opinion piece in the El Paso Times titled El Paso’s Resurgence is not Happenstance, State Representative Lina

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reddit.com/r/ElPaso

2022-04-08 Rich Wright Brand El Paso, How to Live in El Paso, Slider, The Economy 2 comments

Did you know that there’s an El Paso sub-reddit? Here’s a post from reddit.com/r/ElPaso : Is it just me or

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Ahead of the Curve

2022-04-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 2 comments

Here’s an impractical solution to the decline in baseball’s popularity, headlined Baseball is Dying. Government Should Take It Over. From

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We’re Fourth (From the Bottom)

2022-04-07 Rich Wright Slider, The Economy 2 comments

An alert reader just hipped me to this table from DQYDJ.com showing comparative rankings for metro areas in the U.S.

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Retrovision – Nothing’s For Sure but Debt and Taxes

2022-04-06 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Retrovision, Taxes Leave a comment

(This post originally ran on 10 March 2017.) The ever-vigilant Brutus over at El Paso Speak alerted me (and all

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Chris Farlowe – Out of Time

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Pedro Infante in El Mil Amores

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Take Me Out to the Ballgame

2022-04-05 Rich Wright ballpark, El Paso Times, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 2 comments

The El Paso Times ran an advertisement for article about the upcoming Chihuahuas baseball season in the print edition today.

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