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  • “The Thinking Game”

    2026-08-29 elrichiboy
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  • Instrumenta antiqua stultis antiquis.

    2026-08-27 Tim Holt

    by Tim Holt Here is a little game you can play with your coworkers: try to find a document at your work that is written

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  • Juangabrielisimo in Juarez

    2026-08-26 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright Juan Gabriel is the biggest star to ever come out of Juarez. For Mexican music, Juan Gabriel is Elvis and Prince and

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  • The Data Center Chronicles: The Storms of Jupiter Whip the Summer of ’26

    2026-08-25 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson If the summer monsoon has been a huge letdown this year, then developments around the giant AI data center under construction in

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  • The Future of El Paso | Inspired by True Events

    2026-08-23 Guest Column

    by Andres Powers I. The Ledger Start with what is already true, because prophecy is cheap and the record is not. In 2012 the city

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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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  • “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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  • 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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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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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 1 – Akasha

2017-05-26 elrichiboy Art, Video One comment

Do you want to know the unknowable? You can’t. But here’s someone trying to scratch the surface. In four parts.

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“You’re Fired!”

2017-05-26 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Quality of Life Projects 3 comments

The El Paso Times reports today that mayoral candidate David Saucedo wants to fire the heads of the City’s permanent

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City of Dust: Chloride, New Mexico

2017-05-24 John Mulhouse City of Dust, What to Do Leave a comment

A Resurrection I’ll admit that many of the places I visit are run-down and lonesome and the tales tend to

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Arena Update From Max Grossman

2017-05-24 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 13 comments

Dear Friends, 2,452 El Pasoans cannot all be wrong! That is the number of citizens who signed our petition to

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The Devitalization of Downtown

2017-05-23 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 9 comments

Look at that map. I’ve highlighted the ballpark, the civic center, and the proposed site for the arena. I’m guessing

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UEFA Champions League Championship

2017-05-23 elrichiboy sports, What to Do Leave a comment

Heads Up! Real Madrid plays Juventus on Saturday, June 3, at 12:45 in the Finals of the UEFA Champions League.

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The City Strikes Again!

2017-05-22 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes One comment

I’m beginning to think that those Quality of Life bonds were nothing but a mammoth fraud. Look at this story

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If You Oppose the Electric Rate Hike, You Hate Women

2017-05-21 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Remember when Mayor Oscar Leeser said that no woman deserves the kind of money that El Paso Electric CEO Mary

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Sunday Matinee: Some Chinese Action Movie

2017-05-21 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s some Chinese action movie, dubbed in English. Lots of bow and arrow gunfights. Spoiler Alert: The Manchurians are real

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Support Our Sponsors!

2017-05-18 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso One comment

El Chuqueño would be a lot more miserable place without support from those guys in the right-hand column (or wherever

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More Rate Increases

2017-05-18 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Slider One comment

El Paso’s English language daily reports that Texas Gas, i.e., the gas company, want to raise its rates for the

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Destino

2017-05-18 elrichiboy Art, Video One comment

Imagine if Walt Disney had gotten together with Salvador Dali and made a trippy six minute animation that must have

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Conor Oberst at Tricky Falls Thursday

2017-05-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows Leave a comment

Are you the last person who doesn’t know who Conor Oberst is? He’s a singer/songwriter that used to be in

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