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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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  • The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises

    2025-10-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Amid the landscape of yucca and creosote plants, artificial intelligence-driven Project Stargate took shape this week just a tad up the road from

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  • Diminishing El Paso

    2025-10-06 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue to see little to moderate

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  • “Highway Dragnet”

    2025-10-05 elrichiboy
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  • “The 1916 [Irish] Rising of Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”

    2025-10-04 elrichiboy
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  • Ouch!

    2025-10-03 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times delivered its mandated circulation report on page 5A of Thursday’s dead tree edition, and it’s not pretty. On July 25, 2025,

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  • Juarez’ 2025 Bullfighting Season

    2025-10-01 Rich Wright

    While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at 8pm at the Alberto Balderas

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  • The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown

    2025-09-30 Rich Wright

    Downtown El Paso is already barely accessible. What effect will 5 years of freeway and deck park construction have on it? All those businesses who

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  • “Park Plaza 605”

    2025-09-28 elrichiboy
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  • Social Engineering Chuco-Style

    2025-09-26 Rich Wright

    I live in a neighborhood I call Barrio Heights. Barrio Heights is below Rim Road, close to El Paso High. The houses in Barrio Heights

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  • Community First Coalition Forum on Affordable Housing

    2025-09-25 elrichiboy

    The Community First Coalition is hosting a forum on the housing challenges facing the local community. Everybody needs housing, and in the current climate, we

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  • Book Launch: “Juarez | Tales from a Misunderstood City”

    2025-09-24 elrichiboy
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The Big Kid in Juarez, Part 2

2024-06-13 Bob Chessey History, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

You can read Part 1 here. by Bob Chessey Part Two: DODGING PROHIBITION In mid-January of 1900 23-year-old Harry Shipley

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Adios, You Lying Lame Duck Carpetbagger

2024-06-11 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 5 comments

The word on the street is that lame duck carpetbagger Andrea Hutchins of the El Paso Chamber has organized letters

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A lower case “d” Democrat

2024-06-10 Xavier Miranda Opinion, Politics, Slider 3 comments

by Xavier Miranda The perils of a second Trump presidency is acknowledged and certainly not disputed.  However, the rationale for

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“Guilty Bystander”

2024-06-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Men Who Stole the World (and got away with it)”

2024-06-08 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Mexico’s President Elect and the Time of Women

2024-06-06 Kent Paterson Juarez, Mexico, Politics, Slider 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Appropriately dubbed the “Time of Women,” the 2024 Mexican elections ushered in the first woman elected as

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Arena Tours are Dinosaurs

2024-06-03 Rich Wright Heather Wilson, Slider, UTEP 2 comments

Here’s a column from GQ.com titled Artists Are Canceling Arena Tours Right and Left. Maybe They Shouldn’t Have Been Playing

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“1984”

2024-06-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Black Market Organs”

2024-06-01 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Honoring the Mexican Workers Who Saved the United States

2024-05-29 Kent Paterson History, Slider 2 comments

By Kent Paterson For the first time in 60 years, Sebastián Corral touched the earth of Rio Vista Farm in

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Heather Wilson’s Folly

2024-05-28 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Heather Wilson, Slider, UTEP 6 comments

UTEP’s president Heather Wilson wants the County of El Paso to ask the voters of the county to give the

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Is El Paso Cool?

2024-05-26 Rich Wright Culture, Economic Development, Slider 12 comments

I remember when I lived in Austin, back before the invention of the automobile, there were Phds flipping burgers at

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“The Seven-Ups”

2024-05-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Deadly Shootouts & Betrayals: Inside the Bandidos”

2024-05-25 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Corruption and the Decline of El Paso

2024-05-21 Rich Wright Arrogance, Corruption, Economic Development, Opportunity Costs, Renard Johnson, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

Some people would have you believe that El Paso’s apogee was 1950, and we’ve been in steady decline ever since.

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Humphrey Bogart in “Call it Murder”

2024-05-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Rollo: The Dark Age Warrior Who Became King of Normandy”

2024-05-18 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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HARRY NELSON SHIPLEY: THE “BIG KID” OF THE JUAREZ PLAYGROUND, Part 1

2024-05-17 Bob Chessey History, Juarez, Slider One comment

by Bob Chessey During the 1920’s Juarez was a bustling adult recreational destination flaunting legal alcohol, saloons, cabarets, legal prostitution,

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The “Future of El Paso” Debacle

2024-05-16 Rich Wright Economic Development, Heather Wilson, Slider Leave a comment

If you only get your news from El Chuqueño, you missed this piece of news. From ElPasoMatters.com: The National Science

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More of What You Should Expect

2024-05-14 Rich Wright City Council, Slider, The Environment One comment

From the El Paso Times: Once again bucking the will of a chorus of El Paso residents, the El Paso

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