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Friday Short – Scene of the Crime

2021-01-08 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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I Am a Capitalist

2021-01-07 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Even though I don’t own any capital, I am a capitalist. I still believe that capitalism is the most effective

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Fiona Apple – Shameika

2021-01-06 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Are Office Buildings Obsolete?

2021-01-06 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Before buildings had centralized refrigerated air conditioning, windows used to open. There was a little transition period, when the air

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City of Dust – The Book

2021-01-06 elrichiboy City of Dust Leave a comment

Longtime El Chuqueño contributor John Mulhouse has written a book. Okay, it’s not really called City of Dust. The publisher

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Joe T. Hodo – Los derechos humanos de los migrantes Gringos

2021-01-05 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo Leave a comment
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Serving the Community?

2021-01-04 elrichiboy City Management, Liar Liar, Slider One comment

Here’s a Letter to the Editor of the El Paso Times: It was reported that “hardly anyone” in El Paso

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It’s Who You Know

2021-01-04 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Letters to the Editor, Public Health, Slider 7 comments

From a Letter to the Editor in the El Paso Times: Last week, KFOX News reported on a vaccination event

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Sunday Matinee – Vice Squad

2021-01-03 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Most Dangerous State of Mexico

2021-01-02 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment

Mexico through the eyes of a Russian.

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Tir na nÓg – Looking Up

2021-01-01 elrichiboy Music, Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Friday Short – The Developer

2021-01-01 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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David Garza – Float Away

2020-12-31 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Max Flansburg – Long Hard Year

2020-12-30 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Joe T. Hodo – Agua pasa por mi termo (cates se los doy yo)

2020-12-30 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo Leave a comment
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The Failing Health of Government By Spin

2020-12-30 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Ethics, Media, Politics, Slider, Technology Leave a comment

El Paso has a long history of catering to private interest in the name of public good. That worked before

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Sunday Matinee – The House on Telegraph Hill

2020-12-27 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Black Angel

2020-12-25 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Joyeux Noel

2020-12-24 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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Dropkick Murphys – “The Season’s Upon Us”

2020-12-23 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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The People Speak!

  • Carmen Rodriguez on Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs
  • Cynthia J Gomez on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
  • 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?
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El Chuqueño Lately

  • “Fire Maidens from Outer Space”
  • “White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”
  • Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact
  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”
  • “Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”

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