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  • The City’s U-Matter Program

    2023-06-02 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright You Are Not the You in U-Matter KVIA continues its block busting reporting with more information of the use of city credit

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  • The Poor Quality of Local Media

    2023-06-02 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright Did you see this report from KVIA? Former District 6 City of El Paso Representative Claudia Rodriguez spent more than $7,500 in

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  • Arrogance

    2023-06-02 Rich Wright

    If you look at the Census Bureau estimates for El Paso’s population, the inflection point was 2012. It didn’t turn negative till 2017, but in

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  • CITY POPULATION DECLINES ANOTHER 1,000 INHABITANTS SINCE LAST YEAR

    2023-05-30 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman The American Community Survey (ACS) of the Census Bureau has revealed that as of July 2022, the population of the City of

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  • CITY AUDITOR PRESSURED TO ALTER HIS REPORT ON CITY GAS CARDS!

    2023-05-27 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman In its reporting on the City gas card scandal, KVIA has reminded our community why it is has the highest-rated local television

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  • Max Grossman: “VIDEO SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE OF CITY GAS CARD USAGE SOON TO BE RELEASED”

    2023-05-25 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman As we learned from Edmundo Calderon, Chief Internal Auditor of the City Rep. Cassandra Hernandez and former City Rep. Claudia Lizette Rodriguez

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  • Adam Smith on Politics in El Paso

    2023-05-24 elrichiboy

    by Rich Wright From The Wealth of Nations: “To hurt in any degree the interest of any one order of citizens, for no other purpose

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  • What do you get the man who has everything?

    2023-05-22 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright How about a man made river? According to this story from the daily rag, El Paso Water is spending $15 million to

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  • CONSTRUCTION BEGINS IN TIRZ 13, THE LARGEST CORPORATE HANDOUT IN EL PASO HISTORY

    2023-05-19 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman Vic Kolenc of the El Paso Times and the Staff of the El Paso Inc have both published reports announcing that Paul Foster

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  • DRAINING THE SWAMP: FOAC COMMITTEE TO AUDIT CITY 380 AGREEMENTS AND NO-BID CONTRACTS

    2023-05-17 Max Grossman

    by Max Grossman According to the Texas Comptroller, “Chapter 380 of the Local Government Code authorizes municipalities to offer incentives designed to promote economic development

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  • “SALTY” NELL

    2023-05-16 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey El Paso’s First Career Customs Inspectress When crossing an international bridge from Juarez to enter El Paso, we take for granted that

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  • Our Taxing Politicians

    2023-05-15 Rich Wright

    You read here that email that Max Grossman sent out, decrying the proposed $10 increase for cars registered El Paso County. That money would go

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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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The Harmonizing Four – “We’re Crossing Over”

2022-11-27 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“Child Warfare”

2022-11-25 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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City of Dust “Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns, Endangered Architecture, and Hidden History” Wall Calendar

2022-11-20 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

by John Mulhouse It’s almost Thanksgiving and that must mean it’s time for the 2023 City of Dust “Abandoned New

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“Phantom Lady”

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“The JockStrap Raiders”

2022-11-18 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Tales from the Tour Bus: Blaze Foley Intro

2022-11-17 elrichiboy Slider, Tales from the Tour Bus Leave a comment
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Alan Gogoll – “Mulberry Mouse”

2022-11-16 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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City of Dust – The Albuquerque Rail Yards

2022-11-16 John Mulhouse City of Dust, Slider One comment

by John Mulhouse Train I Ride The Albuquerque Rail Yards are a massive complex sprawling over 27.3 acres and sitting

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60 Minutes – “Buses from the Border: New York strained by migrants caught in a broken system”

2022-11-16 elrichiboy Immigration, Slider, Venezuela Leave a comment
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The Half House

2022-11-15 elrichiboy History Leave a comment

Trish Long talks about the Shanghai Grocery in this piece in the El Paso Times: The Shanghai Grocery was located

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Dave Chappelle Stand-Up Monologue – SNL

2022-11-14 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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Chris Canales for District 8

2022-11-13 elrichiboy Elections Leave a comment

After careful consideration of the two candidates vying to be our next City Representative for District 8, I have decided

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