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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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What 8.57% Means

2017-06-12 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider 14 comments

Politics in El Paso is in a sorry state. There are 364,537 registered voters in El Paso. Only 31,255 of

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Sunday Matinee: Ferrum

2017-06-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Sorry I’m late. I got caught in internet traffic. Ferrum is some kind of existential Russian gangster art flick. I

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City of Dust: Cuervo, New Mexico

2017-06-09 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

Where Crows Flew When it comes to ghost towns, it doesn’t get much better than Cuervo, New Mexico. Its condition

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Mexico Only Has Two Problems . . .

2017-06-08 elrichiboy Mexico, Video Leave a comment

You, and everyone else. Here’s a video that takes a stab at Mexico’s chronic problems. Check it out.

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Visit Juarez Like a Tourist

2017-06-08 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do 6 comments

Do you go to Juarez? If you do, you likely only go to the bars and restaurants. And who can

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In the News, Sorta

2017-06-07 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Gabriel Solis writes about how At the Drive In changed his life. At Vice.com: “No guey, you don’t get it!”

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Shrub by Valentin Sandoval

2017-06-07 elrichiboy Art, Go Local, Video Leave a comment

Valentin Sandoval is a videographer and the author of South Sun Rising, a critically acclaimed bilingual prose poem about his

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Anyone But Adolfo

2017-06-07 elrichiboy City Council, Politics 4 comments

El Chuqueño doesn’t endorse candidates. Well, we might, if we were one hundred and ten percent sure that they were

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The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous

2017-06-05 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Retrovision 4 comments

Back before we were old enough to drink, we drank Schlitz. Schlitz tall boys, in steel cans, with a seam

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Renonsense Man

2017-06-05 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

A friend recently referred to another friend as the common term for a polymath and I thought, yeah…nah. Actually, I

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Sunday Matinee: The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World

2017-06-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

In the sixties, various studios came out with James Bond knockoffs. There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of spy and secret

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Robert Randolph at Tricky Falls Tomorrow Night

2017-06-03 elrichiboy Art, Music, What to Do Leave a comment

Pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph brings his funk and soul and burn-the-house-down rock and roll to Tricky Falls tomorrow night.

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UEFA Champions League Final

2017-06-02 elrichiboy Juarez, sports, What to Do Leave a comment

Saturday, June 3, at 12:45 pm, Real Madrid plays Juventus in the final game of the UEFA Champions League. Mostly,

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Radioactivity at Monarch Tomorrow Night

2017-06-02 Fletcher Wright shows, What to Do Leave a comment

This Saturday, we’ll give a warm welcome to a couple touring acts out of Denton. The first being Bad Sports,

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The Latest Numbers

2017-06-01 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development 2 comments

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates for cities are out. According to their Quick Facts, the population of the City of

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City of Dust: Encino, New Mexico

2017-05-31 John Mulhouse City of Dust 58 comments

After the Depot I spend a lot of time on US Highway 60. Not only do I travel the road

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Tornado in Chihuahua

2017-05-31 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment

Rubio is the alias for Colonia Obregon, north of Cuahtemoc, where lately they’ve been having running gun battles in the

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Courthouse Update From Max Grossman

2017-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Dear Friends, I am writing to you to in order to clear up misconceptions about today’s hearing in the 201

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Which End of the Stick Do the Taxpayers Get?

2017-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 12 comments

Our friends on City Council today gave away another million dollars. From KVIA: Construction on a new $16 million development

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Drink Tequila, Lose Weight

2017-05-30 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

According to a report presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society: A sweetener created from the plant used

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