Skip to content

El Chuqueño

The dog barks, and the caravan moves on.

  • Home
El Chuqueño

Author: elrichiboy

U2 on YouTube in El Paso

2017-07-24 elrichiboy Art, Music, Video Leave a comment

Here’s a music video with sparse oblique references to our fair city. I’ve got Tony Lama, Asarco, and freeway signs.

Continue reading

Sunday Matinee: Deadlier Than the Male

2017-07-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 3 comments

Here’s Elke Sommer, before she was a Bond girl, as a psychotic murderer for a master criminal. Actually, it’s not

Continue reading

Friday Short: A Great Day in Harlem

2017-07-21 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment

Here’s a great documentary I found on somebody’s Facebook. (You know who you are.) It features all the jazz greats

Continue reading

We’re Zigging When We Should Be Zagging

2017-07-21 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects 2 comments

Our city leaders have been ostensibly pursuing strategies that lead to economic development. If that’s their real goal, then they’re

Continue reading

Alberto Halpern GoFundMe Account

2017-07-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

As you know, Alberto “Beto” Halpern was seriously hurt in a car accident three days after his wedding and three

Continue reading

The Ouija Speaks!

2017-07-20 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics, Slider 2 comments

My Ouija board says they’re all shook up in the halls of power around here. Not about the court’s decision

Continue reading

Maths

2017-07-18 elrichiboy Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 5 comments

Let’s see. $66 million in Certificates of Obligation raises the average residential tax bill $50 a year. So issuing $180

Continue reading

Doña Ana County Jail Director Busted For Pot

2017-07-17 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Did you read that the Doña Ana County Jail Director got busted for pot? From the Las Cruces Sun Times:

Continue reading

The Beat Goes On

2017-07-17 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Did you read this weekend’s El Paso Inc.? It’s pretty good. Here’s the lede from one story: What began as

Continue reading

Sunday Matinee: Agent 505: Death Trap Beirut

2017-07-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s one of those cartoonish James Bond secret agent knockoffs that I cut my milk teeth on. Watch this video

Continue reading

DavidK on the Local Democratic Primary

2017-07-14 elrichiboy Elections, Meta Blog, Politics 3 comments

DavidK has an early analysis of the upcoming Escobar versus Fennenbock race for the Democrat nomination for Beto’s open Congressional

Continue reading

Salud!

2017-07-13 elrichiboy Mexico Leave a comment

I’m standing at the bar in a 97-year-old cantina in Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico. The whole bar is about fifteen feet

Continue reading

TopGolf Will Save Us

2017-07-12 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Taxes, The Arena 4 comments

I’ve got a math problem for you. Don’t worry, we’re not giving grades, and we’re not asking for real numbers

Continue reading

Read My Lips

2017-07-11 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects 3 comments

Did you vote for Dee Margo because he promised to “hold the line on taxes”? Psych! KVIA reports that our

Continue reading

Three Years and Fifty Weeks To Go

2017-07-10 elrichiboy City Council, Politics 7 comments

You’ve probably heard that El Paso’s latest mayor doesn’t want to hear from the proles. Via the El Paso Times:

Continue reading

Duh.

2017-07-09 elrichiboy National Policy, Slider, World News 3 comments

Here’s the latest awareness from Homeland Security, via KVIA: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Friday that he told

Continue reading

Mexico’s Low Cost Airline

2017-07-08 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, World 2 comments

Lookie here. According to their website, a one-way ticket from Ciudad Juarez to Leon, Guanajuato, non-stop, booked more than a

Continue reading

Eat At Monarch

2017-07-07 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Monarch has a food truck. Sorta. It would be a trailer if it had wheels. And if Clint had a

Continue reading

Greetings From Guanajuato

2017-07-07 elrichiboy World One comment

Here I am in Guanajuato, the capital of the state of Guanajuato. Guanajuato is about in the middle of Mexico,

Continue reading

The Landlord Class

2017-07-05 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

Lookie here. We’ve got a problem. Say you want to open a business in El Paso. Maybe it’s a bar,

Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 109 110 111 112 113 … 170 Next Posts»

A Buck a Month

Come on. If everyone who read El Chuqueño donated just a dollar a month, I'd have a few more dollars. Make a difference. Invest in the alternative narrative, and help a brother out.

The People Speak!

  • John G. Dungan on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Emillio Benitez on City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
  • Gary Cobb on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Kent Paterson on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
  • Lawrence Feltham on City of Dust: Dunlap, New Mexico
  • walter white on Can’t We Just Wait?
  • John G. Dungan on Thank the Taxpayers
  • John G. Dungan on Can’t We Just Wait?
  • Dane Aguilar on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Denise M Schubbe on City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico

El Chuqueño Lately

  • Retrovision: The Problem With TIRZs
  • Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • “The Second Woman”
  • “Siberia: The Coldest Place on Earth”
  • Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa

Stuff we talk about