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  • Can’t We Just Wait?

    2025-11-09 Rich Wright

    Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people who are okay with the

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  • “The Sniper”

    2025-11-09 elrichiboy
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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

    2025-11-01 elrichiboy

    With music by David Romo.

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  • Bullfight Tonight!

    2025-10-31 Rich Wright

    The 2025 bullfighting season carries on tonight with another spectacle at the Aberto Balderas Bullring in downtown Juarez. Tonight’s headliner is El Zapata. From LaPrensa.org,

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  • Gregory Peck in “The Case of the Enchanted Prisoner”

    2025-10-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

    2025-10-25 elrichiboy
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  • “EL PASO, WHERE SUNSHINE SPENDS THE WINTER”

    2025-10-23 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey One hundred years ago, before El Paso simply advertised and referred to itself as the “Sun City,” the municipality boasted the slogan,

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  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

    2025-10-20 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright This article, or something very much like it, originally appeared on NewspaperTree.com in early May, 2008. There’s this brain drain argument that’s

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  • “The Other Woman”

    2025-10-19 elrichiboy
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  • “The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

    2025-10-18 elrichiboy

    Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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I’ve Got a Chile Problem

2017-10-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Two years ago I planted chile pequin. I bought the dried chiles at the grocery store, crushed the pods, and

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“Women Aren’t Nags. We’re Just Fed Up.”

2017-10-04 elrichiboy Art, Perspectives One comment

My wife told me to post this story. I don’t know why. “What bothers me the most about having any

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Hubris, and an Attack on Democracy

2017-10-03 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 13 comments

They felt the wind and thought it was their own breath. When El Paso blew up, say from somewhere around

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Retrovision: Forget the Arena

2017-10-02 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

This article originally appeared on 8 February 2017. Here’s a feel-good story from the El Paso Times about how few

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Dunga Din

2017-10-02 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube The other day our Smartest Dog In the World diagnosed Taylor with strep throat. I

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It’s Time for Plan B

2017-10-02 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 7 comments

No, not emergency contraception. We missed that boat years ago. It’s time to stop pretending like those Quality of Life

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Sunday Matinee: Confessions of a Samurai

2017-10-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a Russian-Japanese movie about a yakuza gangster who becomes an orthodox priest and moves to Russia to escape his

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Gringolandia

2017-09-28 elrichiboy Video 5 comments

Here’s a YouTube series you obviously haven’t heard about. It’s called Gringolandia. Netflix picked it up. Maybe you’ve heard of

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I Want a Salad, Not a Soup

2017-09-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it 2 comments

Our city leaders are trying to give El Paso all the soul of an airport food court. That’s bad, but

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Straight Talk About the Arena

2017-09-28 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

There’s a lot of noise about the arena. Duranguito. Gringolandia. Contempt of court. Arrogant and dismissive. Mysterious phone surveys. Voter

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There’s One Born Every Minute

2017-09-27 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development One comment

Downtown’s renovation is going swimmingly! Here’s a story in the El Paso Inc. about the Abdou Building. The historic Abdou

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The Monsoon

2017-09-26 John Mulhouse Fiction 3 comments

The war was almost over but we didn’t know it yet. I was still in bed. It was dark, but

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The Naked Cowboy Comes to Juarez

2017-09-26 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

Celebrity is like paper money. Celebrity has no intrinsic value. It’s not like talent. It’s not like skill. It’s not,

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Greetings From Gringolandia!

2017-09-25 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 6 comments

Wish you were here! County Commissioner Vince Perez is all in our face about Senator Jose Rodriguez’ quote in Texas

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Free Money

2017-09-24 elrichiboy City Council, Politics One comment

Am I reading this right? It’s the attachment for the agenda item for the new office tower downtown. Not only

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New Mexico’s Exodus Problem Sounds Familiar

2017-09-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development 2 comments

Here’s a story I came across in US News and World Report: After years of stagnation, New Mexico’s economy is

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Socialism for the Rich, Chuco-Style

2017-09-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

Maybe you’ve been wondering what the taxpayers could do for the Hunts and WestStar Bank to thank them for all

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Finally, A Good News Story About El Paso

2017-09-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Media, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Here’s a story in Texas Monthly that paints El Paso as an enlightened community. Fighting the developers. Duranguito and the

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Another Inconvenient Truth

2017-09-20 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes One comment

According the estimates from the United States Census Bureau, El Paso’s Median Household Income declined from $45,069 in 2015, to

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Brand Management Chuco-Style

2017-09-19 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Slider 5 comments

Five years from now, when people hear the name “Margo,” are they going to think of Tom Lea and FEMAP,

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