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  • “Surprise Witness”

    2026-04-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Four Dead in Five Seconds”

    2026-04-25 elrichiboy
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  • The 1915 Collision of the Iron Cure and the Harrison Narcotic Act in El Paso

    2026-04-23 Bob Chessey

    Kicking an opiate habit is a bitch. Before the advent of modern medical and pharmaceutical interventions, counseling, and peer support groups, the nationwide de facto

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  • Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?

    2026-04-22 Rich Wright

    You probably heard lately that El Paso is the second best big city in the U.S. in which to live. It was on the news.

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  • We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice

    2026-04-21 Kent Paterson

    Downwinder leader Tina Cordova speaks at the Valle de Oro Community Earth Day event. Seated to Cordova’s immediate left is Loretta Anderson and next to

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  • Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”

    2026-04-19 elrichiboy
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  • “How Ciudad Juárez Spiralled Into Cartel Madness”

    2026-04-18 elrichiboy
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  • “Now We Know Their Names”

    2026-04-17 elrichiboy
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  • Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond

    2026-04-16 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson After a lapse of nearly one year-and-a-half, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) conducted a community meeting the evening of April 7

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  • Paul and Julie Ten Years After

    2026-04-13 Rich Wright

    On or about 05 October 2016, I took Paul and Julie to Juarez. Paul and Julie were ballroom dancers. Like The Sound of Music. Okay

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  • “The Gary Webb Story: CIA, Cocaine, and a Media Assassination”

    2026-04-11 elrichiboy
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  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela

    2026-04-09 Rich Wright

    If you are interested in the Torre Centinela that is almost fully operational in downtown Ciudad Juárez, then you should read this story from RestOfWorld.org.

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Emily Davis Tour Kickoff at Proper Printshop Tonight!

2016-12-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Okay, music fans. El Paso’s songbird Emily Davis is playing a show at Proper Printshop to finance gas and ramen

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Our Economic Forecast

2016-12-28 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider 5 comments

Good news, chuqueños. The foreboding sense of doom you’ve been feeling for the past several years is not a brain

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What people watch

2016-12-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso One comment

Here’s an interesting article from the New York Times, delineating the most popular teevee shows in different markets. In El

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Learn to Play the Piano (Sort of)

2016-12-27 elrichiboy Education, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Is your much better half after you to make some New Year’s resolutions? When Claire asks me what I want

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Oh, the irony.

2016-12-26 elrichiboy City Council One comment

Poor Ann Morgan Lilly. She’s like the queen of a country that no longer exists, and she can’t quite come

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El Rocinante

2016-12-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Juarez is cheap. A dollar buys twenty pesos now. And

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Do You Mind?

2016-12-23 Reesa Turner Unreliable Narrative 6 comments

Integrative medicine is a big thing these days…exercise, deep breathing, yoga, acupuncture, art workshops. Aiming to calm the mind and

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Brooklyn Nights at Hope and Anchor Tonight

2016-12-22 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Hope and Anchor hosts DJ Farbeon tonight. He’ll be spinning True School Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, Rock and House from

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Now we know who drives the truck.

2016-12-22 elrichiboy City Council, Slider 3 comments

I lifted this from the Paso del Sur’s Facebook page about their meeting with elected officials last Friday. For all

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Tuesday Night Fights: Mr. Ann Morgan Lilly vs. Mrs. Mayor

2016-12-21 elrichiboy City Council, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Did you see this story about the husband of former City Representative Ann Morgan Lilly allegedly assaulting Mayor Oscar Leeser’s

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Mexican Booze for the Holidays

2016-12-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Have you done your holiday shopping yet? Or maybe you need some libations for the end of year celebration. Either

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Did We Take Our City Back?

2016-12-21 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

You heard that yesterday City Council voted 4-2 to build the downtown arena anywhere but the Duranguito/Union Plaza neighborhood. There

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Breaking News: Dogfight at City Hall

2016-12-19 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena Leave a comment

The celebrated decision to relocate the arena to the Civic Center site has met unexpected resistance from downtown real estate

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Go Local: Holiday Edition

2016-12-19 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

[This post originally appeared on 22 December 2015]. Somehow the holidays always sneak up on me. I always used to

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Miles Davis with LCD Soundsystem

2016-12-19 elrichiboy Art Leave a comment

How’s your life? Do you sometimes feel like your existence is meaningless? Like the world is sucking pit of despair?

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El Arbolito Lives!

2016-12-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

The Arbolito, that little dive bar that used to be located on Mariscal, next to the Día y Noche, is

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Hiking the Franklins

2016-12-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Friday woke up with charcoal gray clouds camped to the north. The polar vortex was coming, the weathermen said. Winds.

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Green Men’s Greensleeves

2016-12-17 GC Adams Slider 5 comments

The El Paso Times’ recent article by the Russians on the lady with 6,000 Christmas trees made me realize that

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Hal Marcus’ Hippie Holidaze

2016-12-16 elrichiboy Go Local, What to Do One comment

Don’t you just love Christmas shopping? Going to the mall, and looking for a parking spot, and then elbowing your

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Our Local Government In Action

2016-12-16 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena One comment

Well, it looks like the City of El Paso will do a better thing than kick poor people out of

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The People Speak!

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  • David Dunaway on We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice
  • Richard Moore on We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice
  • LOUIS HEAD on Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond
  • F.A. Sommerfeld on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • JerryK on El Paso is Falling
  • elrichiboy on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • John G. Dungan on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • Richard Moore on People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
  • Jessamyn C Young on People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

El Chuqueño Lately

  • “Surprise Witness”
  • “Four Dead in Five Seconds”
  • The 1915 Collision of the Iron Cure and the Harrison Narcotic Act in El Paso
  • Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?
  • We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice

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