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  • The Restorative Power of Restaurants

    2026-08-21 J. Eugenio Cotera E.

    by Javier E. Cotera The date was a Sunday in July 1985. My friend Roger and I could see parishioners spilling out of the Nuestra

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  • How Much AI Is Too Much AI?

    2026-08-18 Tim Holt

    by Tim Holt Recently, I submitted a long-form editorial to El Paso Matters that I thought was worthy of posting. It was about how the

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  • La Cucaracha

    2026-08-14 Howard Campbell

    by Howard Campbell After walking across the heavily fortified Paso del Norte bridge and ducking through Mexican customs, you arrive at the foot of Juárez

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  • Drones for Them, But Not for Us?

    2026-08-12 Tim Holt

    By Tim Holt The ACLU released a report in March called Drones For Them But Not For Us? Most people will probably see that title

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  • “There Is No AI, Really (It’s Just People), with Jaron Lanier”

    2026-08-22 elrichiboy

    Jaron Lanier attended New Mexico State University, and (I think) Morehead Elementary.

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  • Alejandor Escovedo — “Always a Friend”

    2026-08-20 elrichiboy
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  • The Traditional Barbershops of Juárez

    2026-08-19 Howard Campbell

    by Howard Campbell In many American cities, the great barbershop tradition is being replaced by heavily marketed, generic chain shops. While these corporate establishments are

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  • You Can Pay When You’re Dead

    2026-06-08 Rich Wright

    Since 1979, the State of Texas has had a program that saves older homeowners from getting their houses seized because of past due property taxes.

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  • An Economic Forecast

    2025-08-22 Rich Wright

    Here’s part of an editorial from El Diario de Juarez:1 Ayer informamos que, a tasa mensual, la producción de la maquila en Ciudad Juárez cayó

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  • Retrovision: Billares El Cid

    2025-08-12 Rich Wright

    This post originally appeared on 12 October 2017. I’m not sure if the information is current. Like everything else in Mexico, like wealth and income

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  • The “Notorious NARCOTIC Smuggler” La Nacha: The El Paso Years

    2025-07-31 Bob Chessey

    So, “Who was ‘La Nacha’?” For 50 years “La Nacha” remained a name synonymous with Juarez and opiate trafficking, a woman who rose to become

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  • “Time Table”

    2026-08-16 elrichiboy
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  • NY Times — “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States”

    2026-08-15 Rich Wright

    Some yankees from the New York Times compiled a list of “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States.” According to this post

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  • “The Real History of Africa They Never Taught You | Africa’s Great Civilizations”

    2026-08-15 elrichiboy
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  • Citlali Delgado, Artist

    2026-08-11 Rich Wright

    Every artist needs a body of work. One painting, or one song, or one role, on stage or the big screen, won’t lead to fame

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  • “The Arrest That Exposed the CIA’s Most Secret Mission”

    2026-08-08 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso Matters to the Rescue

    2026-08-07 Rich Wright

    From ElPasoMatters.org: Between 2015 and 2025, the number of El Pasoans under age 65 grew by fewer than 4,000. The number of those 65 and

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  • The Michigan Earthquake: Did Data Centers Clinch Al-Sayed’s Primary Victory?

    2026-08-05 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Outspent 11 to 1 by incumbent Congresswoman Haley Stevens, Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed’s August 4 win in the Michigan Democratic primary for the

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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”

    2026-08-02 elrichiboy
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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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  • Tim Holt on “There Is No AI, Really (It’s Just People), with Jaron Lanier”
  • Javier E. Cotera. on The Restorative Power of Restaurants
  • John G. Dungan on The Restorative Power of Restaurants
  • Howard on La Cucaracha
  • Tim Holt on NY Times — “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States”
  • Tim Holt on The Traditional Barbershops of Juárez
  • elrichiboy on NY Times — “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States”
  • Tim Holt on How Much AI Is Too Much AI?
  • Tim Holt on NY Times — “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States”
  • Javier Cotera on La Cucaracha

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  • “There Is No AI, Really (It’s Just People), with Jaron Lanier”
  • The Restorative Power of Restaurants
  • Alejandor Escovedo — “Always a Friend”
  • The Traditional Barbershops of Juárez
  • How Much AI Is Too Much AI?

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