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    2025-04-26 Rich Wright

    From Mexico’s national media outlet Milenio.com: Alejandra de la Vega, propietaria de los Bravos de Juárez, ha confirmado uno de los proyectos más ambiciosos en

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  • “Prohibition Era Bars in Juarez”

    2025-04-24 elrichiboy

    Local historian and frequent contributor to El Chuqueño Bob Chessey gives a talk about the proliferation of bars and bar owners on Saturday, April 26,

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  • A Border Story You Might Have Missed

    2025-04-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson If you rely on El Paso online media for your news, you might have missed one of the biggest stories in the

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  • About the Deck Park

    2025-04-23 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright You may have noticed that the deck park is still in play, even after funding sources have dried up. Here’s Mayor Renard

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  • Elephant March

    2025-04-22 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright When I was six, my father took me to the circus. My father drank a lot, and drunk or sober he seemed

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  • Sphere and Shakedown in Las Vegas: 60 Years Later the Grateful Dead Family Keeps Truckin’ On

    2025-04-21 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson For the second year in a row, the Good Ship Terrapin Station has landed in Las Vegas, Nevada. The prestigious passengers disembarking

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  • Retrovision: I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

    2025-04-16 elrichiboy

    This post originally appeared on 23 Novemeber, 2021. I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing

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  • Community Forum with EPISD D1 Candidates

    2025-04-15 Xavier Miranda

    From Xavier Miranda Please consider attending this community forum.  Our public schools face daunting challenges coming from the federal and state levels.  An array of

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  • Dolores Huerta: Still Inspiring the Fight for a New Society

    2025-04-09 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Sporting a black beret that nicely complemented her attire, Dolores Huerta looked ready for battle. The life-long activist, who turns 95 on

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  • Transparency, Chuco-style

    2025-04-07 Rich Wright

    Can you believe that 6 of our 8 City Representatives voted against citizen oversight of bond expenditures? From Adam Powell at ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso

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  • A’s hire A’s

    2025-03-28 elrichiboy

    B’s appoint C’s as cabinet members.

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  • Harry Mitchell, the Mint Café, and The Narcotic Trafficking Question, Part 3

    2025-03-10 Bob Chessey

    By Bob Chessey This is Part 3 of a three part series. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. Valera’s Arrest The

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The Joker in the Deck

2017-01-14 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena One comment

Who wins if we build an arena? Obviously whichever firm is selected to build it. (Maybe we can just give

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#Highland Park Episode 2

2017-01-13 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s the second episode from #Highland Park, that web series about gentrification in El Lay. #HighlandPark – Episode 2: Basketball

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Brujeria at Tricky Falls on Sunday

2017-01-13 elrichiboy shows, What to Do Leave a comment

I am not a fan of heavy metal. I don’t like the headbanging. I don’t like the distorted vocals. I

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3 Cheap Bars

2017-01-13 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider, What to Do One comment

Over the last two years, the peso has lost about a third of its value. Yesterday it was trading at

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Let’s be reasonable.

2017-01-12 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

I don’t really blame the local multi-millionaires for buying City Council. I blame City Council for letting them. Money gives

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The Empire Strikes Back!

2017-01-11 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

That really harshes my mellow.

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#Highland Park

2017-01-10 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s the pilot for a series out of El Lay about Chicanos in a neighborhood called Highland Park. Which brings

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An Arena? Really?

2017-01-10 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

Over the last twenty years, we’ve spent a lot of money on Downtown. For Union Plaza. The Plaza Theatre. The

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Journalism Intern Opportunity

2017-01-09 elrichiboy Opportunity!, Slider One comment

Have you ever wanted to be a journalist? Me neither. There are different ways to get to be a journalist.

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Plasma Sword: A Trailer for a Local Film

2017-01-09 elrichiboy Art, Go Local 3 comments

Can the movie be as good as this trailer featuring all our local heroes? PLASMA SWORD from Roberto Urrea on

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Breaking News: Cortney Won’t Run for Mayor

2017-01-09 elrichiboy City Council, Politics One comment

The word on the street is that District 8 Representative Cortney Niland was considering a run for mayor. She just

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It’s getting deep.

2017-01-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

In this Sunday’s El Paso Times, former Mayor John Cook says: But Cook said he is concerned that even combining

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EPEC At It Again

2017-01-08 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider One comment

The El Paso Times didn’t include this item in their online edition, but I found it anyway through a Google

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It’s Election Time. Sort of.

2017-01-06 elrichiboy City Council, Opportunity!, Slider One comment

We don’t vote till May. But now’s the time to get your shit together. We’re rushing headlong into the season

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The Truth About Duranguito

2017-01-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Those politicians sitting in chambers at City Hall would like you to believe that their hearts grew three sizes one

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Corruption at DHS

2017-01-04 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

I’ve often wondered why the Juarez plaza is so hotly contested by Mexico’s drug trafficking organizations. I surmise that there’s

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The Texas Standard with Rich Wright

2017-01-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Yesterday we were driving up to Carlsbad Caverns and we heard this piece on the radio. I guess they were

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Renovations to Coronado’s Football Stadium?

2017-01-02 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

Some people (you know who you are) have been speculating about whether some of the $75 million in bond money

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Time Flies

2016-12-31 GC Adams Slider 2 comments

Man, 2016 just flew by. It seems that the older I get, the faster time flies by, unless I’m listening

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Another Perspective by John G. Dungan

2016-12-31 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 5 comments

Frequent commenter John G. Dungan sent this in to remind us of our history. The constant push from City Council

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