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  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

    2026-03-22 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martinez Given the recent disturbing revelations about Cesar Chávez, it seems certain that the local Border Highway’s name will be changed.  Many

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  • “Hangover Square”

    2026-03-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Rise and Ruin of the Coca-Cola Family”

    2026-03-21 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso is Falling

    2026-03-13 Rich Wright

    The trusted institutions we count on are letting us down. The streets are crumbling. The water utility can’t keep the water flowing. Texas Gas Services

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  • The 13th Anniversary of the Killing of Daniel Saenz

    2026-03-08 Rich Wright

    Today is the 13th anniversary of the day that El Paso Police Department Officer Jose Flores shot and killed the handcuffed prisoner Daniel Saenz in

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  • Lucille Ball in “The Dark Corner”

    2026-03-08 elrichiboy
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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part Two: Preface and Postscript to “Black Sunday”

    2026-03-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson On a recent sunny day, tourists and locals on Puerto Vallarta’s ocean front boardwalk, the Malecon, watched intensely as a Mexican navy

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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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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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I Knew Them When . . .

2018-06-18 elrichiboy Art, Juarez Leave a comment

I found the models for Cimi’s Segundo Barrio mural. I bet they don’t even know that they’re famous.

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The Death of the American City

2018-06-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development Leave a comment

This story from Harper’s is about New York, but it’s the formula our city fathers are emulating. New York has

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Sunday Matinee: Nightfall

2018-06-17 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 1956 film noir with some nice cinematography. With Brian Keith, Aldo Ray, Annette Benning, and Rudy Bond. Watch

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“Some Cities Are Screwed”

2018-06-16 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes 3 comments

An alert reader sent me this relevant article from Salon: [A]s the adage goes, all economics is local. One part

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How Much is So Much?

2018-06-16 elrichiboy Perspectives 2 comments

You hear it all the time. “Thank you so much.” Well, how much is so much? Is it more than

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Sign the Lost Dog Petition

2018-06-16 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

The City thinks the way to make El Paso attractive is to tart her up like a hooker in a

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Joel Is Right

2018-06-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

There are lots of places where people can live and El Paso is one of them. Unfortunately for the El

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I Can Admit It When I Make a Mistake

2018-06-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Ethics, Slider 2 comments

The City can’t. Which is probably why they can’t stop making mistakes. If you’re going to pretend your mistake never

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Still Lives: Carlsbad

2018-06-12 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse Still Lives Leave a comment

Photographs by Richard Baron / Stories by John Mulhouse I knew the moment we met that we’d be together until

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Looking Back to the Future

2018-06-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Ethics, Slider 2 comments

I’ve been chasing someone else’s disposable income my whole life. Before slinging drinks on the front lines of the service

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