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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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Titilating Speculation

2017-04-25 elrichiboy Politics 2 comments

Here’s an entry from Jaime Barceleau’s Campaign Finance Report. Mr. Barceleau is campaigning to be the City Representative for District

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Those Poor Dears

2017-04-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, The Arena One comment

God bless our city’s business leaders. This is from a story in this weeks’s El Paso Inc.: “The reason the

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Whale, That Escalated Quickly

2017-04-24 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

I read an article about neuroplasticity and it appears the plasticity of my neuro is selective. I over-sleep two days

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Sunday Matinee: Delicatessen

2017-04-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Have you seen this flick? It’s kind of an art movie, or something. IMDb calls it a “post-apocalyptic black comedy.”

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UTEP’s Middle Eastern Music Ensemble: Layali Al-Sham

2017-04-22 elrichiboy Art, Music Leave a comment

Here’s a video about UTEP’s middle eastern music ensemble that I lifted from Facebook. Check it out.

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Is It Trickle Down Economics, or Are You Peeing On My Leg?

2017-04-21 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

There is no group of citizens in less need of government support than the leisure class. But those are the

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City of Dust: Elizabethtown, New Mexico

2017-04-20 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

From what I can tell, people who read City of Dust are pretty much split between those who enjoy the

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Punk Rock: Natural Causes at Monarch Tonight

2017-04-18 Fletcher Wright shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Natural Causes are a three-piece out of Carrboro, North Carolina. I honestly hadn’t known about these guys until a few

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Retrovision: “Multipurpose” Spells “Arena”

2017-04-18 elrichiboy City Council, The Arena 2 comments

This post originally appeared on December 17, 2013. Today City Council approved a contract to study locations for a Multipurpose

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Don’t You Just Hate That?

2017-04-17 GC Adams Uncategorized 2 comments

Last Sunday a morning show aired a story about a dating site that paired people based on stuff they mutually

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Independence Day

2017-04-17 John Mulhouse Fiction One comment

It was the middle of the morning on the Fourth of July and the rain was pounding down. Dirty, gray

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Sunday Matinee: Diablo

2017-04-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a Western starring Clint Eastwood’s little boy, Scott, and that guy with the overbite who was on the Shield,

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Public Debt: It’s for the Children

2017-04-14 elrichiboy Politics, Slider 2 comments

Here’s a question you should ask your candidates for public office: If you are elected, will the City use the

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Energy Drinks

2017-04-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 3 comments

Have you ever had a Red Bull? Like maybe that one time you were driving by yourself down the valley

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City of Dust: San Antonio, New Mexico

2017-04-13 John Mulhouse City of Dust 6 comments

The Roots of Paris Hilton Around the turn of the 20th Century, a boy would walk from his father’s mercantile

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The Mayoral Candidates’ Alternate Universe: We’re Doomed

2017-04-13 elrichiboy Politics, The Arena 9 comments

The El Paso Times today reports on a debate among three of the mayoral candidates, sponsored by everyone’s favorite higher-tax

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The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2017-04-12 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Education, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for a the city with the second lowest per

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El Paso’s Alternate Universe

2017-04-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider One comment

Every week, there’s a surprising new story in the El Paso Inc. This week the frontpage story is headlined Montecillo

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Do Class Clowns Have Reunions?

2017-04-11 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

My childhood friend, Larry Zavala, asked if I was going to our high school reunion and sent me a link

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About El Chuqueño

2017-04-10 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

I’m not against change. Change is the natural state of the universe. Change is as inevitable as gravity. Or friction.

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