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  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

    2026-03-22 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martinez Given the recent disturbing revelations about Cesar Chávez, it seems certain that the local Border Highway’s name will be changed.  Many

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  • “Hangover Square”

    2026-03-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Rise and Ruin of the Coca-Cola Family”

    2026-03-21 elrichiboy
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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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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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Nick Waterhouse at Tricky Falls Tonight!

2016-12-16 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Whooee! Nick Waterhouse will be bringing his soulful, retro, boozy rhythm and blues to Tricky Falls tonight. Tickets available at

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Hip City at the Pizza Joint

2016-12-16 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Punkabilly rockers Hip City play the Pizza Joint downtown tonight at 10 PM in a FREE all-age show. Here they

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Nick Waterhouse at Tricky Falls on Friday

2016-12-15 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

This cat Nick Waterhouse is playing at Tricky Falls on Friday. Highly recommended. Tickets available from TicketFly. Check it out.

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Who’s driving this truck?

2016-12-15 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

It looks increasingly like City Staff are giving direction to City Council instead of the other way around. Like this

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Life in the Echo Chamber

2016-12-14 elrichiboy City Council, The Arena One comment

Here’s what District 3’s sweetheart Emma Acosta had to say in this week’s El Paso Inc. “You keep hearing that

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Never Give Up

2016-12-14 elrichiboy City Council, Slider Leave a comment

Remember Jack Handey? He went to Eastwood, and wrote Deep Thoughts for Saturday Night Live, back when SNL was good.

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Just . . . Yes

2016-12-13 GC Adams Uncategorized 4 comments

El Paso just had its annual three day event we like to call “Fall.” I’ve read about other places having

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Día de Nuestra Señora

2016-12-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Yesterday I went to Juarez for the feast day of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Our Lady of Guadalupe is the

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Journalist Murdered in Ciudad Chihuahua

2016-12-13 elrichiboy Media, Mexico Leave a comment

According to news reports, a radio journalist was shot dead in his driveway in Ciudad Chihuahua on Saturday morning. From

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Urban Revitalization, Winston-Salem Style

2016-12-13 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s an article about Winston-Salem from Politico, from a series called What Works. The series is dedicated to exploring the

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The K Club is Open Again

2016-12-12 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

According to reliable taxista Benjamin, the Kentucky Club is open again. “They’ve been open about eight days,” he told me

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Curiouser and Curiouser

2016-12-12 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, The Arena 3 comments

Isn’t it weird that self-professed Chicano political blogger Jaime Abeytia is in favor of evicting the abuelitas from Duranguito so

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Cichon to D.C.?

2016-12-12 elrichiboy Politics Leave a comment

Do you ever shop at Albertson’s? I only shop there sometimes. I run in for a bottle of wine, maybe,

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Glasbox Speakeasy Show: Ross Fleming and Omar Cuellar

2016-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized, What to Do Leave a comment

Tonight at the Glasbox: Ross Fleming and Omar Cuellar play a Speakeasy show. I dug up a video or Mr.

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