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  • Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-10-17 Rich Wright

    Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing organizations. In response to the

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  • Ninja Convention

    2025-10-16 Rich Wright

    The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade on Montana last night. Kudos

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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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  • The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises

    2025-10-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Amid the landscape of yucca and creosote plants, artificial intelligence-driven Project Stargate took shape this week just a tad up the road from

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  • Diminishing El Paso

    2025-10-06 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue to see little to moderate

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  • “Highway Dragnet”

    2025-10-05 elrichiboy
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  • “The 1916 [Irish] Rising of Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”

    2025-10-04 elrichiboy
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  • Ouch!

    2025-10-03 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times delivered its mandated circulation report on page 5A of Thursday’s dead tree edition, and it’s not pretty. On July 25, 2025,

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  • Juarez’ 2025 Bullfighting Season

    2025-10-01 Rich Wright

    While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at 8pm at the Alberto Balderas

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  • The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown

    2025-09-30 Rich Wright

    Downtown El Paso is already barely accessible. What effect will 5 years of freeway and deck park construction have on it? All those businesses who

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  • “Park Plaza 605”

    2025-09-28 elrichiboy
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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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Retrovision: The Lies they Tell us

2021-02-02 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

This post originally appeared on 27 April 2020. Tomorrow the El Paso City Council will vote on a measure to

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Leonard Cohen – Winter Lady

2021-02-01 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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ABC-7 Xtra on the Downtown Historic District

2021-02-01 elrichiboy Media Leave a comment

Max Grossman and Richard Dayoub

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Oscar Leeser Has a Mandate

2021-02-01 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Elections, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Oscar Leeser won the election by a 4 to 1 margin. That’s more than a little bit. That’s a landslide.

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Sunday Matinee – Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers

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Ben Hester – In the Sweet By and By

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Saturday Matinee: Putin’s Palace

2021-01-30 elrichiboy Corruption, Saturday Documentary, World News Leave a comment
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Miles Davis – Elevator to the Gallows

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Senses Fail – Elevator to the Gallows

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Lobbyist Loophole?

2021-01-29 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Lobbyists, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Or maybe the City Clerk is just not doing her job. Here’s Chapter 2.94 – REGULATION OF LOBBYING ACTIVITIES of

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Friday Short – David

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Fort Bliss Added to El Paso County’s Population

2021-01-28 elrichiboy population, Slider Leave a comment

Starting with the 10 year census in 2020, the Census Bureau will start counting the population of military bases as

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Miles Davis – So What

2021-01-27 elrichiboy Music One comment
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Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground

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Joe T. Hodo vs. Los DREAMers

2021-01-26 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo Leave a comment
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Ministry – Just One Fix

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The Deck is Coming

2021-01-25 elrichiboy Corruption, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Arena, The Trench 10 comments

Here’s a message I received from TxDOT contractors via the Sunset Heights Neighborhood Association: As an interested party in the

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The United Nations Definition of Genocide

2021-01-24 elrichiboy Immigration, Slider 4 comments

From the UN.org website: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Article II In the present

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Sunday Matinee – The Young Savages

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The Teeter Totter Wall – Pro and Con

2021-01-23 elrichiboy Art, Immigration, Politics, Slider One comment

Did you read that the Teeter Totter Wall won an international design award? Here’s the skinny from NPR: An art

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