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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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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 55 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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But Wait . . .

2017-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 5 comments

According to KVIA, the judge in the case the City filed for a declaratory judgment has postponed the case till

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And the Verdict Is . . .

2017-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 3 comments

Tomorrow Today the City of El Paso goes to court in Austin to affirm their conviction that the arena they

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 4 – Beyond Thinking

2017-05-29 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Video Leave a comment

Here’s the final chapter of the Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds program. By now you’ve probably given away all your material

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I’ll Get To It Later

2017-05-29 GC Adams Uncategorized 3 comments

An old buddy lamented my lack of columns lately and mentioned that he enjoyed them. Which he’s enjoying, the columns

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 3 – The Serpent and the Lotus

2017-05-28 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Video Leave a comment

Sounds almost conjugal, doesn’t it? Well, it is. See Part 1 here. I’ll post the final episode tomorrow.

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Sunday Matinee: Immortals

2017-05-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a movie about Greek gods and mortals and a magic bow. Everything you could want in a movie except

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 2 – The Spiral

2017-05-27 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Video Leave a comment

Here’s more of the insubstantial substance of the universe. You can watch Part 1 here. Part 3 tomorrow.

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