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  • El Paso is Falling

    2026-03-13 Rich Wright

    The trusted institutions we count on are letting us down. The streets are crumbling. The water utility can’t keep the water flowing. Texas Gas Services

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  • The 13th Anniversary of the Killing of Daniel Saenz

    2026-03-08 Rich Wright

    Today is the 13th anniversary of the day that El Paso Police Department Officer Jose Flores shot and killed the handcuffed prisoner Daniel Saenz in

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  • Lucille Ball in “The Dark Corner”

    2026-03-08 elrichiboy
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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part Two: Preface and Postscript to “Black Sunday”

    2026-03-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson On a recent sunny day, tourists and locals on Puerto Vallarta’s ocean front boardwalk, the Malecon, watched intensely as a Mexican navy

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  • The Biggest Campaign of the Season

    2026-03-02 Rich Wright

    The biggest campaign of this election season isn’t taking place by any candidate on the ballot. The President of the University of Texas at El

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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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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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Jepeto Solutions (with of Montreal) at Tricky Falls Tomorrow

2017-04-07 Fletcher Wright shows, What to Do Leave a comment

This Saturday, Jepeto Solutions will warm up the stage for of Montreal at Tricky Falls. Although it’s true that the

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Friday Short: Times Like Dying

2017-04-07 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment

Here’s a twenty minute Western about bank robbers and a consumptive sheriff. Check it out.

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I Lie When I Drink

2017-04-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

The incomparable Dale Watson. Check it out.

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Happy Birthday, Hag.

2017-04-06 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment

Merle Haggard would have turned 80 years old today if he hadn’t died last year on his 79th birthday. The

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Do You Smell Something?

2017-04-04 elrichiboy City Council, Elections, The Arena Leave a comment

Remember that 2012 Quality of Life bond election? That Bond Proposal movement was a juggernaut. I think they had three

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What’s it for, anyway?

2017-04-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Politics, The Arena 9 comments

I still have some questions about that Multipurpose Performing Arts Center. Like where and when to build it. I know

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It’s the Thought . . .

2017-04-03 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak (astronomers really need to get more creative with their names or, you know what, never mind, I’ll do

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Jarabe de Palo at Tricky Falls Tonight

2017-04-03 elrichiboy Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Jarabe de Palo is a Spanish rock band, and they’re everything you’d think a Spanish rock band should be, unless

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Día de San Ricardo

2017-04-03 elrichiboy Art, Opportunity! Leave a comment

Today, April 3, is the Día de San Ricardo, the patron saint of truck drivers, according to ElTestigoFiel.org. Tradition dictates

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That Explains It.

2017-04-03 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

The El Paso Inc. this week unwrapped the study that HKS Inc. did for the City of El Paso to

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Sunday Matinee: Hooligan

2017-04-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a entertaining documentary about the English disease: hooliganism. It seems that in the seventies and eighties, a certain element

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City of Dust: Duran, New Mexio

2017-03-31 John Mulhouse City of Dust 8 comments

The Last Hanging Crime Someday I’ll tell you a tale of a town that didn’t owe its very existence to

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The American Dream Index

2017-03-30 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s an article from Forbes that rates the 50 states according to the future and viability of their middle class.

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