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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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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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What If Their Plan Doesn’t Work?

2018-06-11 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 6 comments

What if they’re doing it wrong? What if their plans for economic development are based on false assumptions? What if

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Sunday Matinee: Fist of Legend

2018-06-10 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s Jet Li in a 1994 action flick. What else is there to say? Watch this video on YouTube Check

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Is El Paso Dying?

2018-06-07 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

I went by the liquor mega-store this week and there were four cars in the parking lot. Inside there were

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The El Paso Housing Bubble

2018-06-06 elrichiboy Economic Development 5 comments

The Central Appraisal District tells us that house values are up 7.6 percent this year. While the U.S. Census Bureau

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Retrovision: A Failure in Branding

2018-06-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena One comment

This article originally appeared on 24 August 2017. Here’s a letter to the editor from the El Paso Times: Here

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Educating the Electorate

2018-06-05 elrichiboy Education, Elections, Media 2 comments

The media aren’t going to do it. Have any of them reported on El Paso’s abysmal population growth rate? Have

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The Home of Predatory Capitalism

2018-06-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Ethics, Perspectives, Public Private Partnerships, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Here’s another killer essay about the decline of American civilization. A friend, recently, told me a very interesting and telling

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If You Build It, Will They Come?

2018-06-04 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

This, from KTSM: City Council approved a controversial proposal Tuesday to create a special taxing zone to spur development along

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Sunday Matinee: Hard Boiled

2018-06-03 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s director John Woo’s 1992 cops and gangsters classic, starring Chow Yun-fat. Lots of that bang bang shoot-’em-up choreography that

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City of Dust: Acme and Frazier, New Mexico

2018-06-01 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

A Tale of Two Towns Those of you who are fans of the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote might be

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