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  • Beasts of Burden

    2025-07-14 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright He wears a pistol on his ankle and carries a condom in his billfold. He never uses either one. The pistol weighs

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  • The Great Trumpini

    2025-07-13 Rich Wright

    From a July 12, 2025 article at APNews.com:  President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he’s levying tariffs of 30% against the European Union and Mexico starting Aug. 1, a

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  • July 12 Border Policy Protest Planned for Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

    2025-07-09 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Under the slogan “Humanize Don’t Militarize,” New Mexico and Texas activists intend to put their constitutional rights into practice this coming Saturday,

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  • Dystopia, USA

    2025-07-08 Rich Wright

    Imagine masked U.S. government agents kidnapping people off the street and sending them to concentration camps. Dystopian fiction? Nah. It’s happening today, in these United

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  • Immigration and Detention Witness

    2025-07-07 Xavier Miranda

    by Xavier Miranda I spent the morning of Friday, June 20,  at the U. S. Courthouse in downtown El Paso, TX observing the Immigration Court

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  • Watching the Watchers

    2025-07-02 Rich Wright

    I told you about the Torre Centinela that’s going up in downtown Juarez. Well, Juarez isn’t the only city in Mexico with a Sentinel System.

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  • EPEC’s Rate Increase

    2025-06-30 Rich Wright

    In this ElPasoMatters.com post, Diego Mendoza-Myers writes about EPEC’s plans to build out its system and what that means for EPEC’s customers. The El Paso

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  • “Intrigue”

    2025-06-29 elrichiboy
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  • “Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

    2025-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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  • “The Spider”

    2025-06-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

    2025-06-21 elrichiboy
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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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Spot the Liar

2016-11-30 elrichiboy City Council, The Arena One comment

From last week’s El Paso Inc.: [B]uilding the arena within 1,000 feet of the El Paso Convention Center would allow

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Tlacho XolitzcuintIi Centeotl Yacatecuhtli

2016-11-30 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

By Reesa Turner When I heard that a perfect storm of 3 of my absolute favorite things (BEER, TACOS, FREE)

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The Ice Man Isn’t Cometh, He’s Hereth

2016-11-30 elrichiboy Navel Gazing One comment

Here’s this crazy episode from Vice.com about this Dutchman who has mastered his autonomic nervous system to the extent that

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Julian Aguilar on the Juarez Violence

2016-11-29 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

Julian Aguilar is a brilliant journalist and photographer in Ciudad Juarez. He’s lived there long enough to know some stuff,

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The City wants to run the CRRMA. What could possibly go wrong?

2016-11-29 elrichiboy City Council One comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? The mayor and the City Council said Monday they will

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El Late Night with Special Guest Richard Wright

2016-11-29 elrichiboy Juarez, Media, Slider Leave a comment

Walking across the bridge, I wish I’d brought a scarf, except the holiday house guests were between me and the

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Kentucky Club Sanctioned for Discrimination Against Indigenous

2016-11-28 elrichiboy Juarez 2 comments

Well, the Kentucky Club is in the news again, and not for anything good. LaPolaka (Noticias en Caliente)* reports that

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You must be rich, or you couldn’t owe so much money.

2016-11-28 elrichiboy Taxes Leave a comment

Did you know that, despite having household incomes about twenty percent less than the rest of Texas, the City of

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Twice the Fools

2016-11-28 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

I want to apologize to my children. Actually, on behalf of every American who’s voted in the last 100 years,

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Patience, patience

2016-11-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Downtown Management District Executive Director Joe Gudenrath sees a very faint light at the end of a very long tunnel.

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Mow Glee

2016-11-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

[El Chuqueño would like to welcome our newest contributor GC Adams presenting this musical interlude.] by GC Adams Mary got

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Feliz Día Desgracia

2016-11-24 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider One comment

Today is the day we express our thanks for everything we should be thankful for. Like family. Friends. Sunshine. Music.

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The Chamanas at Lowbrow Palace Tonight

2016-11-23 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Local rock stars the Chamanas play the Lowbrow Palace at a free, all age show tonight. The nominal start time

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Jim Tolbert’s Hamilton Moment

2016-11-23 Reesa Turner City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena 11 comments

by Reesa Turner I confronted my acquaintance, Jim Tolbert at the Castner Range Forever event, in the 10 minutes or

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The Definition of “Ancillary”

2016-11-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, The Arena Leave a comment

From our good friends at Google: adjective: ancillary providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization,

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Arena-gate: Another lie?

2016-11-22 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

This weekend the El Paso Inc. ran a story about the City’s newest volley in the fight over the arena.

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