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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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White Power?

2017-02-22 elrichiboy Media, Politics 4 comments

Please read this article on the DailyKos. Unless the pictures are Photoshopped, it sure looks like some of our president’s

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Here Comes Trouble

2017-02-22 elrichiboy Juarez One comment

La Polaka reports that Juarez is likely to be home to thousands of deportees. Acorde con los lineamientos revelados este

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The Second Oldest Bar in Juarez

2017-02-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

El Recreo is so exclusive it doesn’t even have a sign. I was in there three times before I figured

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Weed Delivery

2017-02-21 elrichiboy It's All Good Leave a comment

Here’s a story in GQ about models who deliver weed in NYC. A friend tells me about the Green Angels,

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Weird Historical Commission Tidbit

2017-02-20 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, The Arena One comment

The new County Historical Commissioners had to swear to uphold the Constitution when they were sworn in. Here’s what they

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What could possibly go wrong?

2017-02-20 elrichiboy Mexico Leave a comment

Naica is down there west of the highway between Delicias and Camargo, south of Ciudad Chihuahua. Naica is famous for

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Let’s Pretend

2017-02-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 8 comments

Let’s pretend all our local “progressive” politicians and their benefactors are pure of heart. Let’s pretend that their motives are

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Sunday Matinee: The Man From Nowhere

2017-02-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a Korean Movie which is supposedly the basis for John Wick 2. In Korean, with English subtitles. Check it

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The Destruction of Brand El Paso

2017-02-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Slider 3 comments

A brand’s greatest asset is its ability to define itself. Of course, brands do that every day. Every time you

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Defending the Donald Trump Handshake

2017-02-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

The more you know . . . . Check it out.

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Tomorrow is the deadline to register as a candidate.

2017-02-16 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, School Districts Leave a comment

Tomorrow (Friday, February 17) is the last day to register as a candidate in the May election. Half the seats

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City Government at the Zoo

2017-02-16 elrichiboy City Council One comment

I went to the City Council meeting at the zoo this morning. It was a stroke-fest. There was a breakfast

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Meth in Juarez

2017-02-16 elrichiboy Juarez One comment

Here’s a story from the Albuquerque Journal that sheds some light on the recent spate of killings in Ciudad Juarez:

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The Arena: The Word on the Street

2017-02-16 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, The Arena Leave a comment

The word on the street is that the City is already buying land in Duranguito, and they’re offering “an obscene

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Blue Demon Jr. vs. The Border Patrol

2017-02-15 elrichiboy Art, Media, sports One comment

Here’s a cool video from the New York Times about an event that takes place occasionally in California farming communities.

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City of Dust: Taiban, New Mexico

2017-02-15 John Mulhouse City of Dust 10 comments

Whiskey and the Devil Taiban is known for its old Presbyterian Church, a lonely, gutted house of worship visited by

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Oh, that smell.

2017-02-15 elrichiboy Politics, School Districts One comment

You may have missed this story from the El Paso Times. I was only alerted to it by a comment

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Valentine’s Money-Making Opportunity

2017-02-14 elrichiboy Opportunity! Leave a comment

Before I was an internet publishing magnate I had this money-making idea: I’d go to one of the swank restaurants

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La Fiesta

2017-02-14 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 6 comments

This week I got to go into La Fiesta. La Fiesta is located at the corner of Mariscal and Segundo

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

2017-02-14 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

I saw this guy hustling Valentine’s Day cards at Monarch last night. He draws the illustrations and writes the jokes.

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