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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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  • Mexico: Where Women Increasingly Rule

    2026-02-07 Kent Paterson

    by Kent Paterson In case you haven’t noticed, political power in Mexico is increasingly in the hands of women. That reality was proudly stated by

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  • MEXICO’S FORCED LAND CESSIONS TO THE UNITED STATES

    2026-02-02 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martínez The year 2026 (on February 2) marks the 178th anniversary of the signing of one of the most important treaties in

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  • Gone Fishing

    2026-01-28 J. Eugenio Cotera E.

    by J. Eugenio Cotera E. As a young kid growing up in the vast and sparse Chihuahuan Desert, I believed that fish simply materialized wherever

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  • The Anti-Immigrant Family Judge

    2026-01-27 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org: Attorneys with the immigration advocacy group Estrella del Paso last month asked that District Court Judge Marlene Gonzalez recuse herself

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  • “How We Make Hope Normal Again”

    2026-01-26 elrichiboy

    This is a Green Party ad from England and Wales.

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How Bad Are Things, Really?

2017-08-04 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

We’re got a mayor who gets elected by promising to “hold the line on taxes,” and his first month in

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We Should Have Elected This Guy

2017-08-03 elrichiboy Politics, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

From an El Paso Inc. interview: Q: People say El Paso’s taxes are among the highest in the nation, though

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Support the Voice of Reason

2017-08-02 elrichiboy Slider, Support El Chuqueño 7 comments

El Chuqueño has been agitating for sensible government since 2012. We’ve gone through a lot of changes since then, and

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El Paso Theme Song?

2017-08-02 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment

I love El Paso. I never thought we had to throw billions of dollars at it to make El Paso

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Another Shoe Drops

2017-08-02 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Commissioners Court, Cost of Living, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, It's All Good, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

Well, there it is. From the El Paso Times: El Paso County commissioners are looking at a preliminary general fund

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Bohemia IPA

2017-08-01 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 2 comments

Here’s something important. Bohemia has an IPA, and you can get it in Juarez. If you don’t like IPAs, you

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What a Difference an Election Makes

2017-08-01 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

The City is proposing raising taxes as high as it can without putting it to the citizens to vote on.

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“DO YOU NEED A LIE DETECTOR TEST AND WANT TO BE ON TV?”

2017-07-31 elrichiboy teevee Leave a comment

“Honey, guess what? We’re going to be on Maury Popvich!” The words every husband/wife wants to hear. I found this

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Grit

2017-07-31 elrichiboy Economic Development, Education, Video Leave a comment

Here’s Angela Lee Duckworth talking about grit, the power of passion and perseverance. Check it out.

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s 39 Steps

2017-07-30 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here is Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 classic The 39 Steps. Watch this video on YouTube Wikipedia reports that the director’s cameo

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Atomic Blonde Trailer

2017-07-28 elrichiboy Now Playing Leave a comment

If you wanted to go see a movie in a theater, here’s a movie that’s playing in theaters. If it

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Retrovision: It’s Only (Your) Money

2017-07-28 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, The Arena 2 comments

This article originally appeared on March 28, 2016. Remember when the machine was pitching those Quality of Life bonds? Some

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City of Dust: Negra, New Mexico

2017-07-27 John Mulhouse City of Dust 11 comments

Paying a Visit to the Williams It’s time to head south out of House, New Mexico, drop down off the

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Peter Dinklage on Passion

2017-07-27 elrichiboy Art, Video Leave a comment

Here’s the speech Tyrion Lannister gave to Bennington College’s Class of 2012. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.

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Make El Paso a Bastion of Passion

2017-07-26 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider 4 comments

El Paso’s a poor town, and we’re not getting any richer. That’s just a fact. We’re at the absolute bottom

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We’re Not Last!

2017-07-25 elrichiboy Education 2 comments

Here’s a list from everybody’s favorite click-bait list creator. WalletHub did a study of the most and least educated MSAs

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All That Was

2017-07-25 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube Memories are fickle things. I can have a conversation and struggle to remember something from

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The City Budget is Fake

2017-07-25 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes One comment

Or at least extremely conservative. The proposed budget show sales tax revenues declining by $525,000. El Paso hasn’t experienced a

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U2 on YouTube in El Paso

2017-07-24 elrichiboy Art, Music, Video Leave a comment

Here’s a music video with sparse oblique references to our fair city. I’ve got Tony Lama, Asarco, and freeway signs.

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Sunday Matinee: Deadlier Than the Male

2017-07-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 3 comments

Here’s Elke Sommer, before she was a Bond girl, as a psychotic murderer for a master criminal. Actually, it’s not

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