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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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  • Community First Coalition Forum on Affordable Housing

    2025-09-25 elrichiboy

    The Community First Coalition is hosting a forum on the housing challenges facing the local community. Everybody needs housing, and in the current climate, we

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  • Book Launch: “Juarez | Tales from a Misunderstood City”

    2025-09-24 elrichiboy
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Sunday Matinee: John Ford’s My Darling Clementine

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Retrovision: Is El Paso City Government a Secret Public/Private Partnership?

2020-02-14 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 27 November 2017. I updated the chart to show the most recent available from the

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Friday Short: Le Boche

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Amigo the Devil: Hell and You

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City of El Paso #1 for Certificates of Obligation Debt in Texas

2020-02-12 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Woohoo! Yeah, the Miners suck, again, those poor dears. And people are running away from El Paso like it’s on

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The Rise and Fall of Jeffrey Epstein: The Story of How He Didn’t Kill Himself

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No Pro Sports in the Arena?

2020-02-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

Didn’t you think that the proposed downtown arena was for professional sports? Wasn’t there a lot of talk about an

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Betty Boop: Riding the Rails

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Someday Matinee: Hedy Lamarr in The Female Animal

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City To Give $2.4 Million in Cash to Fund Downtown Apartments

2020-02-07 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

From the El Paso Times: Downtown El Paso’s slow-to-grow housing market is getting a new addition when a 13-story office

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Friday Short: Box 616

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MCAD, Parks, and Libraries to Merge?

2020-02-06 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

That’s the latest rumor to emanate from the bowels of City Hall. According to the rumor, the City of El

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People, Poverty, and Narco-Violence

2020-02-06 elrichiboy Mexico 2 comments

Here’s a good article examining the root causes of Mexico’s violent drug trade. The narcos I spoke with do not

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Juarez Walking Tour Reviews

2020-02-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez One comment

Most El Pasoans think Juarez begins and ends at the strip. If they go to Juarez, they get as far

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Wealth Inequality and Income Segregation

2020-02-05 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Downtown El Paso used to belong to all El Pasoans. Sure, there was poverty. But there were also places that

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The City Can’t Stop Lying

2020-02-04 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Here’s a Steve Jobs quote: A players hire A players, but B players hire C players and C players hire

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Hunt Builds Communities

2020-02-04 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

Really. That’s what they do. They got rich building housing for military families, all over the world. If you believe

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Sunday Matinee: Algiers

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Time to Pay Your Property Taxes Again

2020-01-29 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

It’s that time again. Your property taxes are due without penalty by January 31. The riches are shuffling and refinancing

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Balming Tiger: Armadillo

2020-01-29 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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