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  • “The Thinking Game”

    2026-08-29 elrichiboy
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  • Instrumenta antiqua stultis antiquis.

    2026-08-27 Tim Holt

    by Tim Holt Here is a little game you can play with your coworkers: try to find a document at your work that is written

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  • Juangabrielisimo in Juarez

    2026-08-26 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright Juan Gabriel is the biggest star to ever come out of Juarez. For Mexican music, Juan Gabriel is Elvis and Prince and

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  • The Data Center Chronicles: The Storms of Jupiter Whip the Summer of ’26

    2026-08-25 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson If the summer monsoon has been a huge letdown this year, then developments around the giant AI data center under construction in

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  • The Future of El Paso | Inspired by True Events

    2026-08-23 Guest Column

    by Andres Powers I. The Ledger Start with what is already true, because prophecy is cheap and the record is not. In 2012 the city

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  • The Restorative Power of Restaurants

    2026-08-21 J. Eugenio Cotera E.

    by Javier E. Cotera The date was a Sunday in July 1985. My friend Roger and I could see parishioners spilling out of the Nuestra

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  • How Much AI Is Too Much AI?

    2026-08-18 Tim Holt

    by Tim Holt Recently, I submitted a long-form editorial to El Paso Matters that I thought was worthy of posting. It was about how the

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  • “Time Table”

    2026-08-16 elrichiboy
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  • NY Times — “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States”

    2026-08-15 Rich Wright

    Some yankees from the New York Times compiled a list of “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States.” According to this post

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  • “The Real History of Africa They Never Taught You | Africa’s Great Civilizations”

    2026-08-15 elrichiboy
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  • La Cucaracha

    2026-08-14 Howard Campbell

    by Howard Campbell After walking across the heavily fortified Paso del Norte bridge and ducking through Mexican customs, you arrive at the foot of Juárez

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  • Drones for Them, But Not for Us?

    2026-08-12 Tim Holt

    By Tim Holt The ACLU released a report in March called Drones For Them But Not For Us? Most people will probably see that title

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The Arena: Issue Fatigue

2017-02-23 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, The Arena 2 comments

They stopped arguing. They’re just going to do it. They thought they could persuade us. Or, at least, present a

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White Power?

2017-02-22 elrichiboy Media, Politics 4 comments

Please read this article on the DailyKos. Unless the pictures are Photoshopped, it sure looks like some of our president’s

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Here Comes Trouble

2017-02-22 elrichiboy Juarez One comment

La Polaka reports that Juarez is likely to be home to thousands of deportees. Acorde con los lineamientos revelados este

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The Second Oldest Bar in Juarez

2017-02-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

El Recreo is so exclusive it doesn’t even have a sign. I was in there three times before I figured

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Weed Delivery

2017-02-21 elrichiboy It's All Good Leave a comment

Here’s a story in GQ about models who deliver weed in NYC. A friend tells me about the Green Angels,

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Weird Historical Commission Tidbit

2017-02-20 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, The Arena One comment

The new County Historical Commissioners had to swear to uphold the Constitution when they were sworn in. Here’s what they

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What could possibly go wrong?

2017-02-20 elrichiboy Mexico Leave a comment

Naica is down there west of the highway between Delicias and Camargo, south of Ciudad Chihuahua. Naica is famous for

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Let’s Pretend

2017-02-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 8 comments

Let’s pretend all our local “progressive” politicians and their benefactors are pure of heart. Let’s pretend that their motives are

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Sunday Matinee: The Man From Nowhere

2017-02-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a Korean Movie which is supposedly the basis for John Wick 2. In Korean, with English subtitles. Check it

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The Destruction of Brand El Paso

2017-02-17 elrichiboy Slider, Brand El Paso 3 comments

A brand’s greatest asset is its ability to define itself. Of course, brands do that every day. Every time you

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Defending the Donald Trump Handshake

2017-02-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

The more you know . . . . Check it out.

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Tomorrow is the deadline to register as a candidate.

2017-02-16 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, School Districts Leave a comment

Tomorrow (Friday, February 17) is the last day to register as a candidate in the May election. Half the seats

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City Government at the Zoo

2017-02-16 elrichiboy City Council One comment

I went to the City Council meeting at the zoo this morning. It was a stroke-fest. There was a breakfast

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Meth in Juarez

2017-02-16 elrichiboy Juarez One comment

Here’s a story from the Albuquerque Journal that sheds some light on the recent spate of killings in Ciudad Juarez:

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The Arena: The Word on the Street

2017-02-16 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, The Arena Leave a comment

The word on the street is that the City is already buying land in Duranguito, and they’re offering “an obscene

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Blue Demon Jr. vs. The Border Patrol

2017-02-15 elrichiboy Art, Media, sports One comment

Here’s a cool video from the New York Times about an event that takes place occasionally in California farming communities.

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City of Dust: Taiban, New Mexico

2017-02-15 John Mulhouse City of Dust 10 comments

Whiskey and the Devil Taiban is known for its old Presbyterian Church, a lonely, gutted house of worship visited by

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Oh, that smell.

2017-02-15 elrichiboy Politics, School Districts One comment

You may have missed this story from the El Paso Times. I was only alerted to it by a comment

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Valentine’s Money-Making Opportunity

2017-02-14 elrichiboy Opportunity! Leave a comment

Before I was an internet publishing magnate I had this money-making idea: I’d go to one of the swank restaurants

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La Fiesta

2017-02-14 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 6 comments

This week I got to go into La Fiesta. La Fiesta is located at the corner of Mariscal and Segundo

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