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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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  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

    2026-04-05 elrichiboy
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  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”

    2026-04-03 Rich Wright

    (Scene: Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon.) Secretary Pete Hegseth: . . . and that, gentlemen, is how we will end this war.

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WJUC Highlights Video

2016-10-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s are the freshest highlights of the finals of the World Junior (U 20) Ultimate Championship, in Poland. Fresh as

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El Paso Unified School District

2016-10-25 elrichiboy School Districts, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

The El Paso Independent School District is pushing their “innovation” as an enticement to support their upcoming $669 million bond

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Public Office? We shouldn’t even let them use public restrooms.

2016-10-25 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Last week City Council voted to kick poor people out of their homes so rich people could watch basketball from

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Downtown Diary: The Last One

2016-10-24 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso One comment

Jenni Burton had a weekly column in NewspaperTree from 2004 to 2007. Maybe longer. This month she moved out of

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Not on fire, just smoldering

2016-10-24 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

In an ongoing effort to “inform” the voters, someone posting on Facebook as EPISD Board Member Susie Byrd claimed that,

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The $669 Million Question

2016-10-22 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes 4 comments

Originally published way back on 7 September 2016 The El Paso Independent School District wants us to give them $669

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Don’t Buy Your Season Tickets Just Yet

2016-10-22 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 4 comments

Our City Council on Tuesday past voted unanimously to approve the site of the downtown arena, even if it required

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I guess somebody noticed.

2016-10-21 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Slider, Taxes One comment

Mr. Bob Moore, editor of the El Paso Times, informed me via Facebook that the Specific Interest Committee Campaign Finance

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Jorge Talks

2016-10-21 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

In an interview with El Universal, Jorge, a purported chief in La Linea, the armed wing of the Juarez Cartel,

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Proper Printshop’s Art en Vivo: Chris Trian

2016-10-20 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s what Proper Printshop’s Facebook page says about Art en Vivo: Art en Vivo is a live screen printing project

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Do Western Refining’s Shareholders Know?

2016-10-20 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes, Uncategorized One comment

Corporate boards have a responsibility to their shareholders, and generally those shareholders expect the corporate boards to maximize profits. It’s

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There’s nothing wrong with EPISD that two thirds of billion dollars won’t fix. Well, hardly anything.

2016-10-20 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

This from the El Paso Times: The El Paso Independent School District is one of two Texas school districts that

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Contrabandistas

2016-10-19 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Here’s the latest news from the El Paso Times, dateline June 16, 1924: With only three shells, Threepersons grabbed Jara,

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Common Wisdom

2016-10-19 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

This is a partial text of a public comment made by Steve Strumer to El Paso City Council on 18

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Champions League

2016-10-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Are you one of those poor slobs who needs an excuse to day drink? Your salvation is at hand. Today

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Today’s Civics Lesson

2016-10-19 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

I learned yesterday that the City’s values are Integrity, Respect, Excellence, Accountability, and People. I learned that because they were

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Tomorrow is the City Council Meeting About that Stupid Arena

2016-10-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics 4 comments

The downtown arena is stupid. We don’t need it. We never needed it. And our elected officials aren’t telling us

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The World is Changing

2016-10-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

Here’s a video from 2011 telling us how the world was changing. But because it was made in 2011, it’s

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What about that arena?

2016-10-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

You are probably perplexed by the impetus to put a new arena downtown. What’s going on there? More than meets

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It’s Time to Pick Up a New Hobby

2016-10-14 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

Do you know what’s wrong with El Paso? If you think it’s no population growth, falling real wages, or one

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  • John G. Dungan on Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?
  • 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

  • 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
  • Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”
  • “How Ciudad Juárez Spiralled Into Cartel Madness”

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