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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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  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

    2026-03-31 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Data centers are a burning issue in the Paso del Norte borderland of 2026. Plans to open a giant data center complex

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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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This Week in the Blogosphere

2016-10-07 elrichiboy Meta Blog Leave a comment

This week in the blogs: DavidK at RefusetheJuice and Jaime Abeytia of the LionStarBlog re-engaged in their long-running cat fight.

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Tim Razo at Proper Print Shop Tonight

2016-10-06 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Southwestern multi-media artist Tim Razo brings his designs to Proper Print Shop, 800 Montana, tonight starting at 6:00, as part

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The Americans at 5 Points Bistro Tonight!

2016-10-06 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

The Americans bring their Americana folk rock to the 5 Points Bistro, with local stalwarts Sorry About Your Sister providing

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Empty Meters

2016-10-06 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development Leave a comment

Lord knows I don’t want to tell anybody how to run their business. But . . . . The other

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Paul and Julie Go To Juarez

2016-10-06 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Yesterday I took Paul and Julie to Juarez. Julie and Paul, married for 52 years, are ballroom dancers from southern

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The Americans at 5 Points Bistro

2016-10-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

The Americans bring their white boy blues to 5 Points Bistro tomorrow, Thursday, October 6, with locals Sorry About Your

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Juanga Plaza

2016-10-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

They launched La Gran Plaza de Juan Gabriel last week. I went Sunday, after the VIPs had made their speeches

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FEMAP

The Day I Had Cancer

2016-10-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider 5 comments

Yesterday I had cancer. I found it the night before. An angry little red bump on my back, on my

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A penny here, a penny there

2016-10-03 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes One comment

Did you see that USA Today is railing against cable companies’ set top box rental rates? Here’s what the USA

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Make El Paso Great Again

2016-10-03 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development, How to Live in El Paso 7 comments

What do we want from El Paso? If you say industry to alleviate the homeowners’ tax burden, I’m not buying

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Meta Blog: What the other blogs are saying

2016-09-30 elrichiboy City Council, Meta Blog, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

You may have noticed that the City settled with Basic IDIQ this week on the San Jacinto Plaza project. DavidK

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Ya Basta!

2016-09-30 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes 3 comments

Those people advocating for the El Paso Independent School District bond proposal gotta understand. Enough. We’ve got the same people

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filete al mojo de ajo

Vulgar Talk

2016-09-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez One comment

I know it’s vulgar to talk about money. Unless it’s for the children. And I hate to talk about how

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The Very Best That Other People’s Money Can Buy

2016-09-28 elrichiboy School Districts, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

The El Paso Times reports that three area lawmakers are throwing their support behind the El Paso Independent School District’s

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Brand El Paso, Again

2016-09-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 3 comments

If we want El Paso to gain any ground in the public’s perception, we all have to be pulling in

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Millenial Wha?

2016-09-26 elrichiboy Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Alert reader Alberto tipped me off to this illuminating story in The Architects Newspaper which references San Jacinto Plaza: One

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Take me back to Tulsa. Please.

2016-09-25 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

In Tulsa, if a cop shoots an unarmed man, the cop gets charged. In El Paso, if a cop shoots

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Welcome to the Middle Class

2016-09-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m talking about you. Everybody thinks they’re middle class, from Bloomberg News: Distilled interpretations of life in America. Check it

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Law and Order: Chucotown

2016-09-23 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

El Paso Times Editor Bob Moore alerted us, via Facebook, to the arbitrator’s ruling on the decision to reinstate Officer

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buskers

Where are the buskers?

2016-09-23 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development, How to Live in El Paso 14 comments

With all the struggling musicians in El Paso, I have to wonder why I don’t see more buskers. Last week

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  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”
  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway
  • “Hangover Square”

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