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  • The New Soccer Stadium

    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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Juarez Sunday Afternoon

2016-12-09 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

I’m sitting in a cowhide chair at a cowhide table in the Mariachi Bar, just off Avenida Juarez, a block

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The Latest Dope on Drinking in Juarez

2016-12-08 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

El Diario reports that, starting today, the bars and restaurants and grocery stores that sell alcohol in Juarez will be

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Unreliable?

2016-12-08 Reesa Turner Navel Gazing One comment

A lifetime ago, some idiot with a Napoleon complex tried to paint me out in black and white…you’re too much

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Breaking News

2016-12-08 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Downtown, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

I know reason and common sense have no place in local government, but I found out some things that I

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La Puerta Siga Cerrado

2016-12-07 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

The Kentucky Club is still closed after denying admittance to the governor of the Raramuri community in Juarez in November.

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Why can’t they just talk to us like we’re adults?

2016-12-07 elrichiboy City Council, The Arena One comment

Opposition to the arena is pretty widespread. At least, opposition to putting it in the proposed location. Texas State Senator

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Here. Now.

2016-12-07 GC Adams Uncategorized 2 comments

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FCnEyK8DE8&w=560&h=315] The amount of stuff I record and delete is stupid. I recorded this yesterday and was about to

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The City’s War on Small Business

2016-12-07 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider 4 comments

God bless those nice people in city government. They are completely clueless. Here’s a letter to the editor of the

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Buenas Noticias?

2016-12-06 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

According to multiple news sources, the Congress of the State of Chihuahua has approved a change in the law that

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Snake Pit

2016-12-06 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Uncategorized 3 comments

Remember when you were four or five, and you found out that Santa Claus was just a character invented by

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Surprise! Electric Rates Going Up

2016-12-05 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development 3 comments

Here’s more good news for El Pasoans. According to this story from El Paso’s finest English language daily, electric rates

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A Perfect World: The Mennonite Colonies of Chihuahua

2016-12-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Mexico One comment

Here’s a locally relevant documentary about a couple of Mennonite colonies just down the road from here in Chihuahua. I

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What’s the Rush?

2016-12-05 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 7 comments

Why is City Council in such a hurry to build an arena? Well, City Council won’t tell us, so I

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El Guero de Acero on El Late Night

2016-12-04 elrichiboy Juarez, Navel Gazing 2 comments

For your viewing pleasure. Or not. People were a lot more open before everyone was packing a video recorder, and

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Is it brain drain or a diaspora?

2016-12-03 elrichiboy Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Former El Pasoan Mark Mendel is a big player on a small wing of the world stage. From Torrent Freak:

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Hope Riot with Robert Holguin

2016-12-02 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

It’s a tribute. I think.

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Old Schooled

2016-12-02 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Election night, as I drove back to El Paso through the navy blue of the High Desert with stars from

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Mea Culpa

2016-12-01 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Slider 5 comments

I shouldn’t put all the blame for city governance on bad intentions. I’m sure that almost everyone involved wants the

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George Carlin Talks About El Paso

2016-12-01 elrichiboy Politics Leave a comment

“It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” With some extra optional propaganda at

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It’s All Good, But It’s Not OK(C)

2016-12-01 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena One comment

There’s a lot of talk about how El Paso could be the next Oklahoma City, developing downtown through sports infrastructure.

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