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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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Friday Short – The Shaman

2021-07-30 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Borderland Expressway

2021-07-28 elrichiboy Cesar Blanco, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning 10 comments

Frequent flyer John G. Dungan made this comment on the post Your Representatives in Austin: Frankly, at this juncture, it

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The City of El Paso is Chueco

2021-07-27 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Corruption, Ethics, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

From the El Paso Times: The El Paso City Council voted unanimously to accept a recommendation to reallocate $15 million in federal funding for

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Temptations/Black Sabbath Mashup

2021-07-27 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Your Representatives in Austin

2021-07-26 elrichiboy Cesar Blanco, Chamber of Commerce, Lina Ortega, Slider, Texas State Government, The Trench 5 comments

Now you know who your friends are. Or at least who your friends aren’t. From the El Paso Chamber of

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My TEDx Talk

2021-07-26 elrichiboy Slider, TEDx Leave a comment

In 2013, a friend of mine asked me to talk about Juarez at TEDx El Paso. I probably would have

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Sunday Matinee – I Became a Criminal

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Jamie Wilson – Ain’t No Grave

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Saturday Matinee – How America Bankrupted Its Cities: The Growth Ponzi Scheme

2021-07-24 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Urban Planning Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Day Shift

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Harvard Business Review on the The Sunk Cost Fallacy

2021-07-22 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Here’s an article from the HBR on better decision making. Have you continued with a project long after you should

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Tom Petty – Lost highway

2021-07-22 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Why Target Pot?

2021-07-21 elrichiboy District Attorney, Law Enforcement, Marijuana, Yvonne Rosales One comment

Our new District Attorney Yvonne Rosales recently asked City Council to give her office $72,000 for a machine that can

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Climate Town – Can’t We Just Buy Our Way Out Of Climate Change?

2021-07-21 elrichiboy Climate Town Leave a comment
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Xavier Miranda on Back to School

2021-07-21 Xavier Miranda Education, Guest Column, School Districts, Slider One comment

Teachers, students, and parents are excited about returning to school, and eager to resume face-to-face instruction. However, adequate preparations are

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Veratasium – The Biggest Myth in Education

2021-07-20 elrichiboy Education, Veritasium Leave a comment
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Lost Highway

2021-07-20 elrichiboy Public Transportation, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning Leave a comment

Here’s a highway article from the Texas Observer: In late 2020, TxDOT released renderings for I-35 that showed a 20-lane

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The New DA

2021-07-19 elrichiboy District Attorney, Law Enforcement, Slider, Yvonne Rosales 3 comments

The office of District Attorney for the County of El Paso is the most powerful elected office in El Paso.

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Sunday Matinee – The 13th Letter

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Ry Cooder – Jesus On The Mainline

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