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  • The New Soccer Stadium

    2025-04-26 Rich Wright

    From Mexico’s national media outlet Milenio.com: Alejandra de la Vega, propietaria de los Bravos de Juárez, ha confirmado uno de los proyectos más ambiciosos en

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  • “Prohibition Era Bars in Juarez”

    2025-04-24 elrichiboy

    Local historian and frequent contributor to El Chuqueño Bob Chessey gives a talk about the proliferation of bars and bar owners on Saturday, April 26,

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  • A Border Story You Might Have Missed

    2025-04-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson If you rely on El Paso online media for your news, you might have missed one of the biggest stories in the

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  • About the Deck Park

    2025-04-23 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright You may have noticed that the deck park is still in play, even after funding sources have dried up. Here’s Mayor Renard

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  • Elephant March

    2025-04-22 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright When I was six, my father took me to the circus. My father drank a lot, and drunk or sober he seemed

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  • Sphere and Shakedown in Las Vegas: 60 Years Later the Grateful Dead Family Keeps Truckin’ On

    2025-04-21 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson For the second year in a row, the Good Ship Terrapin Station has landed in Las Vegas, Nevada. The prestigious passengers disembarking

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  • Retrovision: I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

    2025-04-16 elrichiboy

    This post originally appeared on 23 Novemeber, 2021. I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing

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  • Community Forum with EPISD D1 Candidates

    2025-04-15 Xavier Miranda

    From Xavier Miranda Please consider attending this community forum.  Our public schools face daunting challenges coming from the federal and state levels.  An array of

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  • Dolores Huerta: Still Inspiring the Fight for a New Society

    2025-04-09 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Sporting a black beret that nicely complemented her attire, Dolores Huerta looked ready for battle. The life-long activist, who turns 95 on

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  • Transparency, Chuco-style

    2025-04-07 Rich Wright

    Can you believe that 6 of our 8 City Representatives voted against citizen oversight of bond expenditures? From Adam Powell at ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso

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  • A’s hire A’s

    2025-03-28 elrichiboy

    B’s appoint C’s as cabinet members.

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  • Harry Mitchell, the Mint Café, and The Narcotic Trafficking Question, Part 3

    2025-03-10 Bob Chessey

    By Bob Chessey This is Part 3 of a three part series. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. Valera’s Arrest The

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That Smarts

2017-11-22 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Hey, it’s me, Rich, from El Chuqueño. I’m afraid you’ve been doing these 60 Hot Seconds wrong. It’s multimedia. You’re

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City of Dust: Riley, New Mexico

2017-11-21 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

A Town With Two Names While the Man with No Name might feel right at home in the ghost town

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The $100,000 Paint Job

2017-11-21 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

I think I’ve probably mentioned my theory that during the budget process, the City underestimated revenues and overstated costs to

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Did You Know That I Am An Award-Winning Chef?

2017-11-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do One comment

Yup. Lookie here: I won that at the second occasional casserole contest over there in Steglich’s backyard. My winning dish

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Andrew Joseph at TEDx El Paso

2017-11-18 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment

Here’s a video of local cyber-genius Andrew Joseph delivering a presentation at this year’s TEDx. Watch this video on YouTube

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Advice for Bar and Restaurant Entrepreneurs: Wealth vs. Income

2017-11-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

For young entrepreneurs in El Paso, the popular thing to do these days to open a restaurant, or a bar.

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Chile Cookoff at Hope & Anchor

2017-11-15 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Okay, sports fans. Sunday at 4 pm there’s a chile cookoff taking place at Hope & Anchor. I’ll be there.

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The Emperor’s New Clothes

2017-11-15 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, It's All Good, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Is the City out of touch with the taxpayers? Here’s an op-ed in the El Paso Times from Mayor Dee

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Reuters on El Paso and NAFTA

2017-11-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, World News 2 comments

Here’s a report from Reuters on the effect that NAFTA had on El Paso, and the likely effect discontinuing NAFTA

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Sparta Concert! FREE Tickets!

2017-11-13 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, Music, What to Do Leave a comment

Sparta’s playing a benefit concert on Saturday, December 16, at Tricky Falls. And tickets are FREE, FREE, FREE. But you

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A New Verse to the Same Old Song

2017-11-13 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Media, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

Remember last week I asked “Is the City Paying Companies to Not Leave Town?” Well, Vic Kolenc of the El

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Sunday Matinee: Flashpoint

2017-11-12 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Here’s a movie from 1984 featuring one of America’s greatest songwriters Kris Kristofferson, as a Border Patrol agent on the

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Salsa Brava

2017-11-11 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

At Monarch last night the salsa brava was pretty popular. “You should sell it,” people said. But I’m not into

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Maybe You Can Relate

2017-11-10 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Video 3 comments

Perhaps you’ve seen this. It’s a used car commercial for a 1996 Honda Accord. Watch this video on YouTube Check

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Free To Good Home, Chile Pequin Plants

2017-11-09 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

I’ve got about six or nine Chile Pequin plants growing in pots, and I’d like to offshore them before it’s

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The Left Hand Doesn’t Know the Lies the Right Hand Is Telling

2017-11-09 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Taxes Leave a comment

Lookie here. Here’s a slide from the presentation that the City of El Paso’s Director of Economic Development Jessica Herrera

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Is The City Paying Companies To Not Leave Town?

2017-11-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

At the October 3, 2017, meeting, the El Paso City Council passed the following ordinance: That the City Manager is

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City of Dust: Pinos Altos, New Mexico

2017-11-07 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

High Pines About seven miles north of Silver City, New Mexico, on Hwy 15, at the gateway to the massive

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El Paso Electric is a Bad Corporate Citizen

2017-11-06 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

The El Paso Inc. reports that El Paso Electric Company CEO Mary Kipp was recently feted at the El Paso

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Where’s Peter?

2017-11-06 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Elections 3 comments

Here’s former City Representative and mayoral candidate Steve Ortega talking about the trolley in the El Paso Scene: Among the

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