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  • Mexico: Where Women Increasingly Rule

    2026-02-07 Kent Paterson

    by Kent Paterson In case you haven’t noticed, political power in Mexico is increasingly in the hands of women. That reality was proudly stated by

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  • MEXICO’S FORCED LAND CESSIONS TO THE UNITED STATES

    2026-02-02 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martínez The year 2026 (on February 2) marks the 178th anniversary of the signing of one of the most important treaties in

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  • Gone Fishing

    2026-01-28 J. Eugenio Cotera E.

    by J. Eugenio Cotera E. As a young kid growing up in the vast and sparse Chihuahuan Desert, I believed that fish simply materialized wherever

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  • The Anti-Immigrant Family Judge

    2026-01-27 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org: Attorneys with the immigration advocacy group Estrella del Paso last month asked that District Court Judge Marlene Gonzalez recuse herself

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  • “How We Make Hope Normal Again”

    2026-01-26 elrichiboy

    This is a Green Party ad from England and Wales.

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  • “Nightfall”

    2026-01-25 elrichiboy
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  • Ricardo Pepi to Fullham?

    2026-01-25 Rich Wright

    ESPN reports that English Premier League’s Fullham F.C. have reportedly offered Dutch futbol team PSV $38 million for the contract of El Paso/San Elizario native

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  • Masa pa’ la Raza: Taconeta

    2026-01-23 Rich Wright

    For the third year in a row, Taconeta made it to the semi-finals of the James Beard Awards in the category Outstanding Wine and Other

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  • Fritz Lang’s “House by the River”

    2026-01-18 elrichiboy
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  • “The Gilded Age”

    2026-01-17 elrichiboy
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  • An “Unprecedented” Event

    2026-01-13 Rich Wright

    This from ElPasoTimes.com: It could be until mid-week when a boil water notice is lifted and water service is fully returned to normal after a

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  • The Primary Elections

    2026-01-12 Rich Wright

    I always vote. Every election. School boards. State judges. Railroad Commissioner. I have even gone to the fire station to make no selection in every

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Private Letter Rulings from the Comptroller

2017-01-15 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

If you want to know if your project qualifies for some arcane tax credit, you ask the Texas Comptroller for

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The Joker in the Deck

2017-01-14 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena One comment

Who wins if we build an arena? Obviously whichever firm is selected to build it. (Maybe we can just give

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#Highland Park Episode 2

2017-01-13 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s the second episode from #Highland Park, that web series about gentrification in El Lay. #HighlandPark – Episode 2: Basketball

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Brujeria at Tricky Falls on Sunday

2017-01-13 elrichiboy shows, What to Do Leave a comment

I am not a fan of heavy metal. I don’t like the headbanging. I don’t like the distorted vocals. I

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3 Cheap Bars

2017-01-13 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider, What to Do One comment

Over the last two years, the peso has lost about a third of its value. Yesterday it was trading at

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Let’s be reasonable.

2017-01-12 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

I don’t really blame the local multi-millionaires for buying City Council. I blame City Council for letting them. Money gives

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The Empire Strikes Back!

2017-01-11 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

That really harshes my mellow.

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#Highland Park

2017-01-10 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s the pilot for a series out of El Lay about Chicanos in a neighborhood called Highland Park. Which brings

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An Arena? Really?

2017-01-10 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

Over the last twenty years, we’ve spent a lot of money on Downtown. For Union Plaza. The Plaza Theatre. The

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Journalism Intern Opportunity

2017-01-09 elrichiboy Opportunity!, Slider One comment

Have you ever wanted to be a journalist? Me neither. There are different ways to get to be a journalist.

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Plasma Sword: A Trailer for a Local Film

2017-01-09 elrichiboy Art, Go Local 3 comments

Can the movie be as good as this trailer featuring all our local heroes? PLASMA SWORD from Roberto Urrea on

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Breaking News: Cortney Won’t Run for Mayor

2017-01-09 elrichiboy City Council, Politics One comment

The word on the street is that District 8 Representative Cortney Niland was considering a run for mayor. She just

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It’s getting deep.

2017-01-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

In this Sunday’s El Paso Times, former Mayor John Cook says: But Cook said he is concerned that even combining

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EPEC At It Again

2017-01-08 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider One comment

The El Paso Times didn’t include this item in their online edition, but I found it anyway through a Google

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It’s Election Time. Sort of.

2017-01-06 elrichiboy City Council, Opportunity!, Slider One comment

We don’t vote till May. But now’s the time to get your shit together. We’re rushing headlong into the season

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The Truth About Duranguito

2017-01-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Those politicians sitting in chambers at City Hall would like you to believe that their hearts grew three sizes one

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Corruption at DHS

2017-01-04 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

I’ve often wondered why the Juarez plaza is so hotly contested by Mexico’s drug trafficking organizations. I surmise that there’s

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The Texas Standard with Rich Wright

2017-01-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Yesterday we were driving up to Carlsbad Caverns and we heard this piece on the radio. I guess they were

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Renovations to Coronado’s Football Stadium?

2017-01-02 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

Some people (you know who you are) have been speculating about whether some of the $75 million in bond money

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Time Flies

2016-12-31 GC Adams Slider 2 comments

Man, 2016 just flew by. It seems that the older I get, the faster time flies by, unless I’m listening

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