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  • Thank the Taxpayers

    2025-11-10 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story at ElPasoTimes.com titled State of the County address touts growth through bonds in address. “On time and on budget” was the rallying

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  • Can’t We Just Wait?

    2025-11-09 Rich Wright

    Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people who are okay with the

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  • “The Sniper”

    2025-11-09 elrichiboy
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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

    2025-11-01 elrichiboy

    With music by David Romo.

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  • Bullfight Tonight!

    2025-10-31 Rich Wright

    The 2025 bullfighting season carries on tonight with another spectacle at the Aberto Balderas Bullring in downtown Juarez. Tonight’s headliner is El Zapata. From LaPrensa.org,

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  • Gregory Peck in “The Case of the Enchanted Prisoner”

    2025-10-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

    2025-10-25 elrichiboy
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  • “EL PASO, WHERE SUNSHINE SPENDS THE WINTER”

    2025-10-23 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey One hundred years ago, before El Paso simply advertised and referred to itself as the “Sun City,” the municipality boasted the slogan,

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  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

    2025-10-20 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright This article, or something very much like it, originally appeared on NewspaperTree.com in early May, 2008. There’s this brain drain argument that’s

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  • “The Other Woman”

    2025-10-19 elrichiboy
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The Robots Have Come for Your Job

2020-05-27 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, Technology One comment

I came home the other day and some guy was messing with my gas meter. Turns out that Texas Gas

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El Paso Post-Pandemic

2020-05-26 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

The future will look different. But let’s hope we’ve learned from the mistakes of the past. For the past couple

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Beisbol Been Very Very Good to Me

2020-05-21 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 10 comments

Minor league baseball is up against the wall, and it’s not because they’re trying to field a long ball to

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Webb Pierce: There Stands the Glass

2020-05-14 elrichiboy Music, Video 2 comments
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These Robots are Coming for Our Jobs

2020-05-14 elrichiboy Technology, Video Leave a comment
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Retrovision: They Think You’re Stupid. They Might Be Right.

2020-05-13 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, It's All Good, Slider 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 28 April 2015. Did you know, that no matter how much money MountainStar Sports Group

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City of Dust: The St. James Hotel, Cimarron, New Mexico

2020-05-12 John Mulhouse City of Dust 4 comments

We Will Shoot the Lights Out for You In the fall of 2005, I was driving from Oklahoma to Taos

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Wuhan Roulette

2020-05-12 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Slider 7 comments

I used to live in the greatest country in the world. If there was a problem, we’d solve it. We’d

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Sunday Matinee: Tell Them Willie Boy is Here

2020-05-10 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube

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Retrovision: Who Represents El Paso?

2020-05-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Retrovision, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

This article originally appeared on 03 August 2015. If you only read the local newspapers, and maybe watch the City

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Ry Cooder: He’ll Have to Go

2020-05-08 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Tightening the Belt?

2020-05-08 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider 10 comments

In what world does cutting pay by five percent for the highest paid City staffers make sense? Tommy G is

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Debunking “Plandemic”

2020-05-07 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Video 2 comments
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The Harsh Future of El Paso

2020-05-06 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

Here’s a great read from Medium.com titled The Harsh Future of American Cities: On the nation’s current trajectory, one of

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The Big Pharma Covid 19 Conspiracy

2020-05-06 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Quarantine 4 comments
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My Lucky Day

2020-05-06 elrichiboy It's All Good, Just Kidding. Leave a comment

If I didn’t occasionally check my Spam box, I might have missed this email: Congratulation My name is Warren E.

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Viral Load

2020-05-05 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider One comment

Some viruses are so strong, and they reproduce so rapidly in the human body, that just a little dose of

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Paul Foster Needs a Hobby

2020-05-04 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 17 comments

Paul Foster inserted himself into the news cycle this week, with this email he sent to all the players on

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Sunday Matinee: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

2020-05-03 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Saturday Documentary: Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans

2020-05-02 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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