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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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It’s Open Season on Handcuffed Prisoners

2016-09-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement 3 comments

None of you have forgotten the horrific “accidental death” of handcuffed prisoner Daniel Saenz when he was shot by El

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reopening day at the kentucky

Okay. Exhale.

2016-09-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Last night I had a horrible dream. I dreamt that the taxman had closed the Kentucky Club, and Donald Trump

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Say it ain’t so!

2016-09-20 elrichiboy Juarez 2 comments

La Polaka reports that the tax man has closed the Kentucky Club because they owe taxes! Woe is me! The

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The Long Way Home

2016-09-20 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

Brutus over at ElPasoSpeak.com posted some illuminating information yesterday. A developer intends to build a high rise hotel on land

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$668 Million, and For What?

2016-09-19 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes 2 comments

I know many of us are curious about what, exactly, the El Paso Independent School District would do with $668

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Election 2016

2016-09-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments
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Entre Otros

2016-09-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

The tirilones aren’t the only guys in Juarez who dress for effect.

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Tin Tan Vive

2016-09-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Tirilones rock zoot suits on the dieciseis pedestrian mall on Sunday.

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Fiesta Juarez

2016-09-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Friday night I went to the Fiesta Juarez. Through some monumental clerical error I got into the VIP area. I

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Sunday Matinee: Sword of the Beast

2016-09-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This is a great Western. It’s so far west, it’s set in Japan. A solitary wandering gun (sword) man, chased

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This Just In: It’s Not All Good

2016-09-17 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Media, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

In an uncharacteristic manifestation of candor, the El Paso Times today ran a story on property taxes. Let me say

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Proper Printshop’s Art en Vivo, 15.9.16

2016-09-15 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Today’s Thursday, and that means that our friends at Proper Printshop are having another printing party. Tonight’s artists are Proper’s

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The Slippery Slope

2016-09-14 elrichiboy Politics, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

If you’re a politician, you probably want to do what’s right. Unless you’re a callow, power-hungry, self-serving sociopath who’s crazed

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Every Kinda People by Los Cenzontles

2016-09-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Flashback: San Jerónimo: Laboratory of Our Future

2016-09-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez 2 comments

In light of current developments, maybe it’s time to revisit this post, which originally appeared on El Chuqueño on July

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Noche Bohemia

2016-09-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider 2 comments

A two-thirds moon hung in a cloud dappled sky. It was the night side of dusk when I crossed the

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More Screen Time!

2016-09-13 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes 7 comments

Those nice people at the El Paso Independent School District, the ones who want to stick their hands a little

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Utopia or Dystopia?

2016-09-13 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

A hyper-vigilant reader turned me on to this story about an impending development in Santa Teresa: London Design Biennale 2016:

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Hillary’s Body Double?

2016-09-12 elrichiboy Politics 2 comments

I don’t want to pick sides in this election, but there’s something to this theory. After suffering a collapse at

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There’s Plenty of Blame to Go Around

2016-09-12 elrichiboy National Policy, Politics Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting perspective on September 11 and the War on Terror, from the Nation: On the morning of September

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