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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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  • “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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Sunday Matinee: Secret of the Incas

2018-03-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s Charlton Heston as Indiana Jones. No, really. Sort of. 1954, with Nicole Murray as a sexy Romanian Cold War

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Local Film Short: Nacido de Nuevo

2018-03-24 elrichiboy Art, Shorts, Video 2 comments

El Paso’s nascent film scene is happening right under our noses. Here’s an award-winning short from Los Angeles filmmaker Evan

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Mo’ Taxes

2018-03-24 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes One comment

Since 1987, the County of El Paso has been getting a quarter of the sales tax collected in the city.

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We’re Number 2! (For Now)

2018-03-23 elrichiboy ballpark, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

Fort Worth has slightly higher property tax rates than El Paso. For now. According to SmartAsset.com (killer website name), the

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Still Lives: Flora Vista

2018-03-22 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse New Mexico, 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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A Rose By Any Other Name

2018-03-22 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes One comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? El Paso Electric ratepayers will see a smaller than expected

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Toro Toro Toro

2018-03-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, sports, What to Do Leave a comment

After a long hiatus, the bullfights are back in Juarez. April 7 features a slew of rejoneadores. Those rejoneadores are

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Bread and Taxes

2018-03-21 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Right now I’m making bread. I’m at the part of the bread-making process where a lump of dough sits in

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City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico (Updated)

2018-03-19 John Mulhouse City of Dust 20 comments

Too Small to be a Village, Not Large Enough to be a Town On Highway 55, about 40 miles south

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“Mayor Sitting on Ethics Revisions”

2018-03-19 elrichiboy City Council, Slider 5 comments

That’s the front page headline of the El Paso Inc. this weekend. Here’s what it says: Members of the city’s

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Sunday Matinee: Pushover (1954)

2018-03-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

This classic features Fred MacMurray as a cop lured over to the dark side by the lovely Kim Novak, in

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RIP Chalo

2018-03-18 elrichiboy Art, Go Local, Music, News Leave a comment

Seminal punk rock drummer and El Paso native Charlie Quintana passed away last week in Cancun, Mexico. From the Los

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Dueling Commenters

2018-03-14 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

ChucoGeek had this to say in response to the article Times Change: This is why we are stuck following through

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Times Change

2018-03-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 5 comments

Lookie here. That chart at the top of this article shows the difference in taxable property values from 1999 to

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Sunday Matinee: Framed

2018-03-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

This 1947 Glenn Ford film finds our hero in the clutches of a beautiful barmaid who has him figured for

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How Are Your Chiles Doing?

2018-03-09 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 3 comments

Most of my pequin survived the winter (wasn’t it brutal this year?), but so far the habaneros show no signs

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Dale Watson Leaving Austin For Memphis

2018-03-09 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 3 comments

From the Texas Standard: “I make a good living,” Watson says. “But the city has really made it hard to

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Murderer of UTEP Grad Faces Life in Prison

2018-03-09 elrichiboy Breaking News 3 comments

Remember that engineer who was shot and killed in a bar in Kansas last year? It looks like the guy

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Stuart Blaugrund Drills Downtown

2018-03-09 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 6 comments

Here’s a letter to the El Paso Times from the lawyer who challenged the Downtown Plan back in the day.

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This Guy Got Beat Up By the (Alleged) Kern Place Dog-Killer

2018-03-08 elrichiboy News, Slider 2 comments

That’s Mark Boykin, the proprieter of Mark’s Cantina. Three years ago Mr. Boykin accused his next door neighbor, Carlos Fernandez,

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