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  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”

    2026-04-03 Rich Wright

    (Scene: Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon.) Secretary Pete Hegseth: . . . and that, gentlemen, is how we will end this war.

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  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

    2026-03-31 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Data centers are a burning issue in the Paso del Norte borderland of 2026. Plans to open a giant data center complex

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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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We’re Number One!

2018-04-30 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, School Districts, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

No, not for some made up cost-of-living click bait. For taxes! Property tax rates for industrial properties, to be specific.

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Second Highest Tax Rate In The Nation

2018-04-30 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Cost of Living, Taxes 5 comments

According to Lincoln Institute’s 50 State Property Tax Comparison, El Paso has the second highest homestead property tax rate among

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Sunday Matinee: The Naked City

2018-04-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a great movie from 1948. A dress model is murdered in New York City, and Lieutenant Muldoon is on

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Flawed Gods: Myths of Mothers and Other Monsters at the Glassbox

2018-04-28 elrichiboy Art, Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, shows Leave a comment

Austin Savage is kind of a genius. His latest production is a collection of short plays adapted by local writers

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Mayor Still Sitting on Ethics Revisions

2018-04-26 elrichiboy City Council, Ethics, Slider One comment

Remember this story from the March 19 El Paso Inc.? Members of the city’s Ethics Review Commission have been waiting

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Cultivate April 26

2018-04-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

How’s your garden doing? Maybe you need some inspiration. The El Paso Community Foundation will be hosting another Cultivate Forum

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Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone

2018-04-25 elrichiboy History, How to Live in El Paso 2 comments

I found this artefact on the street the other day. You think it’s old? From the Texas State Historical Association

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Richard Thompson at the Plaza Theatre April 26

2018-04-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows, What to Do One comment

Richard Thompson, one of the founding members of the British folk rock band the Fairport Convention, opens for Jason Isbell

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The Big Lie

2018-04-23 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

The advocates for the City’s Quality of Life projects pretend that we need ballparks and arenas to spur economic development.

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It’s Only (Your) Money

2018-04-23 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes 3 comments

From this weekend’s El Paso Inc.: We hear the deal is done, and there’s an announcement coming soon. What deal?

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Sunday Matinee: I The Jury

2018-04-22 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

This movie already changed your life, whether you know it or not. Here’s Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, who lives in

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Jason Isbell at the Plaza Theatre April 26

2018-04-20 elrichiboy shows, What to Do 3 comments

Country crooner Jason Isbell plays at the Plaza Theatre tonight, April 26. The show starts at 8. With Richard Thompson,

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“Stay Woke, Bitches”

2018-04-19 elrichiboy Technology 2 comments

Here’s AI Obama, cautioning us about believing everything you see, especially on the intertube. Watch this video on YouTube Check

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Google Is Always Listening

2018-04-19 elrichiboy Technology Leave a comment

Before you throw away your computer, watch this video from YouTube. Watch this video on YouTube Google, by the way,

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About Those Quality of Life Projects

2018-04-19 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Advocates of the Quality of Life bonds completely misrepresented the facts before the 2012 elections. They minimized the impact on

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Our Local Education

2018-04-18 elrichiboy Education One comment

In this piece that I picked up from Brutus’ blog, and which appeared here originally, the author says you don’t

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“If Only They Knew The Truth”

2018-04-17 elrichiboy Meta Blog 2 comments

Here’s a good story from DavidK’s Refuse the Juice blog: The El Paso Times is patting itself on the back

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Critical Mass, Anyone?

2018-04-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

On Thursday, April 19, a bunch of cyclists are taking over the streets of Juarez for the Día Mundial de

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Still Lives: Abiquiú

2018-04-17 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse Still Lives Leave a comment

Photographs by Richard Baron / Stories by John Mulhouse From 2011 to 2013, Richard Baron traveled throughout New Mexico photographing

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You Messed Up

2018-04-17 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

Mayor Dee Margo, who promised during his campaign to “Hold the line on taxes,” thinks you’re not paying enough in

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