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  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela

    2026-04-09 elrichiboy

    If you are interested in the Torre Centinela that is almost fully operational in downtown Ciudad Juárez, then you should read this story from RestOfWorld.org.

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  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

    2026-04-05 elrichiboy
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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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Does This Sound Like El Paso?

2018-01-13 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes, The Arena One comment

From a 2009 El Paso Inc. interview with Woody Hunt: Q. How does corruption impact economic development? If the procurement

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Retrovision: An Arena? Really?

2018-01-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 5 comments

This article originally appeared on January 10, 2017. Over the last twenty years, we’ve spent a lot of money on

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City of Dust: Hillsboro, New Mexico

2018-01-12 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

This Is Not a Ghost Town Hillsboro, New Mexico, at the foot of the Black Range, almost 20 miles west

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Today’s English Lesson

2018-01-12 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment

Watch this video on YouTube It sounds like English, but they definitely dance in Italian.

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All The News That Fits Our Agenda

2018-01-11 elrichiboy Media, Politics, Slider 2 comments

Back in 2009, El Paso Inc. ran an interview titled Q and A with Woody Hunt The Real Cost of

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Retrovision: Regional Economic Development

2018-01-10 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 13 August 2015. The Borderplex Alliance, an entity dedicated to regional economic development, commissioned a

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“You Can’t Go Home Again”

2018-01-10 elrichiboy Art, Perspectives Leave a comment

From Thomas Wolfe’s novel about the time preceding the stock market crash of 1929: “But he spoke at length about

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Conveniently Located Halfway Between Warsaw, Poland, and the Fiji Islands

2018-01-09 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development 4 comments

I wasn’t able to attend yesterday’s special City Council meeting. So I didn’t get to witness the Hunt Institute for

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Isn’t That Special

2018-01-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes Leave a comment

Today there’s a special meeting of City Council. I was hoping to attend, but life had other plans for me.

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Sunday Matinee: The Butcher

2018-01-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Have you had your dose of over-the-top violence today? Here’s an Eric Roberts movie about a ex-boxer who has fallen

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Ballpark Numbers Updated

2018-01-05 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 4 comments

An alert reader sent me this spreadsheet which shows the actual numbers for the ballpark. Four years in and we’re

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Ballpark Numbers

2018-01-05 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

Are you troubled by insomnia? Then I’ve got some ballpark numbers that should put you right to sleep. Because there

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City of Dust: Kingston, New Mexico

2018-01-05 John Mulhouse City of Dust 5 comments

The Way Things Weren’t Kingston, New Mexico isn’t a ghost town. But it’s also not the place of which it

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Will Tourism Save Us?

2018-01-04 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects One comment

Besides call centers, the City of El Paso’s economic development policy seems to be solely focused on tourism as a

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Sunday Matinee: Hammerhead (1968)

2017-12-31 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Remember 1968? Yeah, me neither. But I hear it was groovy. And here’s proof. Watch this video on YouTube Here’s

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Sunday Matinee: Game of Aces

2017-12-31 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a World War I movie about pilots and traitors. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.

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A Second Bite at the Apple

2017-12-28 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes One comment

The city budget is fat. Obviously they have extra money. Lookie here. From the El Paso Times: The city will

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The Last Days of Jason Rabedeaux from ESPN

2017-12-28 elrichiboy Media, Slider, sports, World News 4 comments

Here’s a story about former UTEP basketball coach Jason Rabedeaux’s career and final days coaching the Saigon Heat. JASON RABEDEAUX

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Sunday Matinee: The Numbers Station

2017-12-24 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

John Cusack leads this one, as a CIA assassin assigned to watch over a secret broadcasting station and the girl

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Rellenos

2017-12-24 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Mexico Leave a comment

Despite Mexico’s reputation as a culinary destination, downtown Juarez lacks an abundance of great street food. Mostly the street food

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  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”
  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”
  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

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