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  • The Biggest Campaign of the Season

    2026-03-02 Rich Wright

    The biggest campaign of this election season isn’t taking place by any candidate on the ballot. The President of the University of Texas at El

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  • Economic Undevelopment

    2026-02-25 Rich Wright

    According to ElDiario.mx, El Paso lost 750 jobs in the last four months of 2025. Juarez lost 17,000 maquila jobs in all of 2025. That

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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part One: Hurricane Mencho

    2026-02-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Fear, hunger, thirst and uncertainty. That’s what folks in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco lived through on February 22, now undoubtedly one of the

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  • “Where Texas Begins”

    2026-02-21 Rich Wright

    The latest (several years old) tagline from Visit El Paso/the Convention and Visitors Center/Destination El Paso appears to be “Where Texas Begins”. Of course Texas

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  • Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall in “Confidential Agent”

    2026-02-15 elrichiboy
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  • “You’re Fired!”

    2026-02-14 Rich Wright

    Remember when Donald Trump’s tagline was “You’re fired!” One might think that he’d be pulling that old standard out again, what with the clown car

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  • “YEMEN: A Forgotten Earth Where Time Still Breathes”

    2026-02-14 elrichiboy
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  • “Love in a Man’s World”

    2026-02-08 elrichiboy
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  • Mexico: Where Women Increasingly Rule

    2026-02-07 Kent Paterson

    by Kent Paterson In case you haven’t noticed, political power in Mexico is increasingly in the hands of women. That reality was proudly stated by

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  • MEXICO’S FORCED LAND CESSIONS TO THE UNITED STATES

    2026-02-02 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martínez The year 2026 (on February 2) marks the 178th anniversary of the signing of one of the most important treaties in

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  • Gone Fishing

    2026-01-28 J. Eugenio Cotera E.

    by J. Eugenio Cotera E. As a young kid growing up in the vast and sparse Chihuahuan Desert, I believed that fish simply materialized wherever

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  • The Anti-Immigrant Family Judge

    2026-01-27 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org: Attorneys with the immigration advocacy group Estrella del Paso last month asked that District Court Judge Marlene Gonzalez recuse herself

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Budget Theater

2018-07-12 Rich Wright City Council, Taxes Leave a comment

The City is in the midst of budget talks. Here’s the almost latest from the El Paso Times: Homeowners could

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Trump Takes Aim At Chiclets Vendors

2018-07-10 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Mexico, National Policy, News 4 comments

In order to level the playing field with ambulatory vendors on the bridge, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has restricted the

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Poop Doubt

2018-07-10 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube I recently discovered in a Barnes & Nobel restroom that nerds are terrible shots, which

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A Better Site for the Mexican American Cultural Center

2018-07-09 Rich Wright City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 9 comments

I think the City spends our money poorly. The City spends our money courting out-of-town businesses that compete with our

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Sunday Matinee: Kiss Me Deadly

2018-07-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s Mike Hammer at his glorious best. There’s a lot in this movie. A 1951 Jaguar XK 120 Roadster. A

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On The Road Again

2018-07-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development Leave a comment

According to this story in the USAToday online (which an alert reader directed me to), El Paso was the ninth

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How To Live in El Paso: Car-Camping

2018-07-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

This 4th of July we went car-camping. I’ve slept on the ground a lot. I used to backpack, hiking into

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The El Paso Street Debacle

2018-07-03 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development One comment

El Paso Street was El Paso’s first street. Mandy the Mule used to haul transnationals down the middle of the

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The Stanton Street Bike Lane

2018-07-03 elrichiboy City Council, Trolley 7 comments

To accommodate the trolley running down the middle of Stanton Street, the City choked it down to one lane each

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Still No Ethics (Revision)

2018-07-02 elrichiboy City Council, Ethics 2 comments

Remember this story from the El Paso Inc. that appeared way back on 19 March 2018? Members of the city’s

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What Are We To Do?

2018-07-02 elrichiboy Economic Development, Elections, Meta Blog, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 10 comments

You may ask yourself, “What are we going to do about the direction the City of El Paso is headed?”

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Que se descanse en paz

2018-07-02 elrichiboy Breaking News, Juarez, Media Leave a comment

If you only visit the English media here in El Paso, you might not know that there’s a city across

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Sunday Matinee: Black Widow

2018-07-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

This 1954 movie’s got Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, George Raft, and a mess of other stars of yesteryear, in a

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“The Future of Cities”

2018-06-28 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Media One comment

On Wednesday the Wall Street Journal came out with a section called “The Future of Cities.” The lead story was

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Retrovision: A Local Expert’s Perspective on Economic Development

2018-06-27 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 01 October 2015. Some things have changed since then. Our Commercial property tax rate is

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It’s Class War

2018-06-27 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Perspectives, Slider 2 comments

Here’s District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez Brown, talking about City Council’s economic development initiatives to the Texas Standard: “You develop

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Sunday Matinee: Blood Relative

2018-06-24 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

They say it’s a nail biting action thriller. Watch this video on YouTube The acting is a little wooden, but

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Retrovision: Payback? Ha!

2018-06-19 elrichiboy Ethics, Politics Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 5 April 2016. In my next life, I want to come back as a member

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It’s a Misdemeanor

2018-06-19 elrichiboy Breaking News, Law Enforcement 9 comments

Entering the United State illegally is a misdemeanor, like taking a sip of beer in the parking lot of a

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Murmurs: El Paso Public Library = Chicano Memorial Museum

2018-06-19 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

The word in the smoke-filled back rooms of the the back alleys of the side streets of the halls of

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