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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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Nothing to See Here

2019-12-03 elrichiboy Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Did you hear about this in the media? This version is from the El Paso Times: The El Paso City

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El Hermano Mayor

2019-12-03 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez, News, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

This just in, from CNN: The Department of Homeland Security wants to be able to use facial-recognition technology to identify

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Battle of the Titans

2019-12-02 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, El Paso Electric Company, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Man, this Electric Company deal is turning out to be like an old B movie. Opposing the deal are some

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Bad News Day

2019-12-02 elrichiboy Media, Slider Leave a comment

Gannett Company’s stock traded at a 52 week low today. Right now it’s trading at $6.33 a share, down almost

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Sunday Matinee: Dragon Eyes

2019-12-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The El Paso Police “Will Fucking Kill You”

2019-11-29 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Dionne Mack, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

And why not? There’s no downside (for them) when an employee of the City of El Paso kills a resident.

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El Paso’s Impending Civil War

2019-11-28 elrichiboy Politics, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Here’s an article I found on Salon.com, parts of which correspond to our situation in El Paso. The current issue

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Lucille Bogan: Shave ’em Dry

2019-11-27 elrichiboy Music, Video 3 comments

WARNING: DON’T PLAY THIS SONG AT WORK, OR IN THE PRESENCE OF CHILDREN, OR YOUR IN-LAWS, OR CHURCH-GOING FOLK.

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Jumping on the Bandwagon

2019-11-26 elrichiboy Economic Development, population, Slider 2 comments

This week’s main story in the El Paso Inc. is titled El Paso’s Birthrate is Falling, by David Crowder. Here

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El Paso’s PDNG Hangover

2019-11-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Media, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Y’all remember the Paso del Norte Group. Back in the aughts, they were going to launch El Paso’s renaissance. They

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Friday Short: Eclair

2019-11-22 elrichiboy Friday Short, Video 2 comments
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Sunday Matinee: 8 Assassins

2019-11-17 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Jurisdictionary

2019-11-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider 3 comments

Horrors. It’s Sunday, and the Women’s Auxiliary is coming over, and you’re out of gin. The liquor stores are closed

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Eliza and the delusionals: Just Exist

2019-11-13 elrichiboy Art, Music, Video One comment
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Breaking News: Heather Wilson Has a Dog

2019-11-12 elrichiboy Breaking News, Media, Slider 5 comments

This just in, from El Paso’s business journal: Heather Wilson, UTEP’s new president, is a dog person. We know that

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Friday Short: Plurality

2019-11-08 elrichiboy Friday Short, Video One comment
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How El Paso Lost the Election

2019-11-08 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Elections, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

I don’t know it you noticed, but the citizens of El Paso lost that election the other day. The City

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The Horse

2019-11-07 elrichiboy Art, Video Leave a comment

The Horse from -_- on Vimeo.

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Brain Drain, Jobs, and Quality of Life

2019-11-06 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 2 comments

Which improves your quality of life more? A good paying job, or ballparks, water parks, and and arenas? Fiscal profligacy

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“A Streetcar Named Quagmire”

2019-11-06 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Trolley 2 comments

From the Wall Street Journal: St. Louis business leaders looking to boost tourism and development spent years bringing the Loop

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  • “The Sniper”
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