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  • I’ve Got a Secret

    2023-02-01 elrichiboy

    It’s a podcast. You can tune into El Chuqueño presents Almost Live, wherever you get your podcasts, like Spotify, or Apple Music. Check it out.

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  • We Will Not Be Silenced

    2023-01-19 elrichiboy

    It came to my attention yesterday that your favorite website was somehow compromised, and we’re not sending out emails after every post is published. How

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  • Tobacco in Mexico

    2023-01-18 elrichiboy

    Here’s one you didn’t see coming. From the New York Daily News: Mexico now bans smoking in hotels, beaches, parks and all other public spaces

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  • The New Feudalism

    2023-01-17 elrichiboy

    Water rates are going up again, for the eighth year in a row. From the El Paso Times: El Paso Water rates and fees are

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  • Economic Development for the Few

    2023-01-07 Rich Wright

    Some of those arena advocates act like it’s our patriotic duty to support downtown development. “Economic development,” they say. “Fortune 500 companies.” “When you boil

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  • Did You Feel That Earthquake?

    2023-01-03 Rich Wright

    My personal seismograph put the epicenter at City Hall. Damages haven’t been assessed yet, but I’m hoping it’s a lot. El Pasoans can expect to

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  • About the Arena

    2023-01-03 Rich Wright

    Advocates say we need the arena as an engine of economic development. That’s not how economic development works. If you want to increase the wealth

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  • Retrovision: “How Quickly They Forget”

    2023-01-02 Rich Wright

    This article originally appeared on 2022 August 31. I stumbled across this gem the other day. From the El Paso Chamber of Commerce: Recommended Action

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  • The Three Mummies: A New Year’s Ode to Ghost Voices

    2023-01-01 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson They stand on an El Paso street like the shadowy, eerie artifacts of a forgotten ancient civilization. Clumped together in a threesome

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  • Quality of Life Much?

    2022-12-30 Rich Wright

    Woody and Gayle Hunt are El Paso Inc.’s El Pasoans of the year, 2022. Here are couple of things that Mr. Hunt had to say:

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  • The 1930 Running of the Cerveza

    2022-12-22 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey A Tale of Pacing and Endurance Summer’s end in 1930 was proving to be a tough time to own a profitable bar

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  • THE BRIDGE OF STONES: A MIGRANT CHRISTMAS STORY

    2022-12-20 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Carefully treading a crossing of slippery stones strung across the shallow Rio Grande between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, trickles of migrants

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The Road to Economic Development

2013-06-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 6 comments

As an El Pasoan, I appreciate the civic improvements that City Hall is foisting on us.  (Can I even call

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More on It’s All Good

2013-05-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s what the Urban Dictionary has to say about It’s All Good: Platitude that covers so many emotions and situations

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El Paso. It’s all good.

2013-05-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

I know it’s impolite (maybe even unpatriotic to the point of treason) to be critical of the current regime in

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Inmates run Maryland prison

2013-04-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Just like in The Wire, maybe, Season Six. The indictment described a jailhouse seemingly out of control. Four corrections officers

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Know the Lowrider

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“We spend more on our cars than we do on our houses,” Larry added. Larry is a member of Our

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Mercado Cerrajeros in Juarez, the durable consumer good graveyard.

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

It’s off of Libertad, in La Chaveña. ” like an elephant graveyard for consumer goods.” (read more at What’s Up.)

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It’s extremely insensitive to steal the guy’s wheels when he’s dead under the truck.

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Some time during the night, an unknown person reportedly removed Goodyear Wrangler tires, two Ford factory aluminum wheels and the

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I say handball, you say rebote

2013-03-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In English we call it handball. In Spanish it’s rebote a mano con pelota dura, or rebote for short. They

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Buses to bars

2013-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Despite El Pasoans’ reluctance to take, or even talk about, the bus, Sun Metro seems complicit in a plot to

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El Paso’s Secret City Government Secret Emails

2013-01-14 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

What is the City hiding in their personal emails? A walking quorum? A narco-nexus? Jimmy Hoffa? Secret payoffs to the

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Were you violent? Here’s why.

2013-01-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There is a significant correlation between the use of leaded gasoline and incidences of violent crime. [L]ead emissions from automobiles

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Are you fat? Here’s why.

2013-01-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I heard this a year ago as we were slipping through the dappled shadows on Gavilan Canyon Road, listening to

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The Kentucky Club

2013-01-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Kentucky Club, just over the Santa Fe Street pedestrian bridge in Downtown El Paso, is easily El Paso’s most

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Trust the Church

2012-12-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Catholic Church, god bless them, are the official arbiters of morality, as far as they’re concerned. So it’s a

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Drug War Mexico and the Narcoeconomy

2012-12-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

A friend of mine who might know (and therefore should remain anonymous) says that the government in Mexico runs the

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Camping at Franklin Mountains State Park

2012-12-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Franklin Mountain State Park is reportedly the largest urban wilderness park in the continental United States. There’s no word

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El Paso’s Bleak Future: A Contrarian View

2012-12-26 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

If we want to attract businesses to El Paso, we have our work cut out for us. According to an

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Killer DIY Drone

2012-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This should scare you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jplh7uatr-E

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Can Juarez survive its extreme makeover?

2012-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Calle de la Paz is seven blocks long, two blocks south of Dieciseis de Septiembre in downtown Juarez. It’s western

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Breaking the Taboo

2012-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a good video about drug prohibition, narrated by Morgan Freeman.

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