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  • Earl Grant “Autumn Leaves”

    2025-07-18 elrichiboy
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  • La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez

    2025-07-17 Rich Wright

    You’d have to be older than I am to remember La Fiesta in downtown Juarez, and I’m pretty old. La Fiesta used to be a

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  • Roaming Free in Mexico: How Will the Wolf Survive?

    2025-07-15 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson A Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) of undetermined sex was captured on camera roaming the back country of the Sierra Madre

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  • Beasts of Burden

    2025-07-14 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright He wears a pistol on his ankle and carries a condom in his billfold. He never uses either one. The pistol weighs

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  • The Great Trumpini

    2025-07-13 Rich Wright

    From a July 12, 2025 article at APNews.com:  President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he’s levying tariffs of 30% against the European Union and Mexico starting Aug. 1, a

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  • July 12 Border Policy Protest Planned for Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

    2025-07-09 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Under the slogan “Humanize Don’t Militarize,” New Mexico and Texas activists intend to put their constitutional rights into practice this coming Saturday,

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  • Dystopia, USA

    2025-07-08 Rich Wright

    Imagine masked U.S. government agents kidnapping people off the street and sending them to concentration camps. Dystopian fiction? Nah. It’s happening today, in these United

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  • Immigration and Detention Witness

    2025-07-07 Xavier Miranda

    by Xavier Miranda I spent the morning of Friday, June 20,  at the U. S. Courthouse in downtown El Paso, TX observing the Immigration Court

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  • Watching the Watchers

    2025-07-02 Rich Wright

    I told you about the Torre Centinela that’s going up in downtown Juarez. Well, Juarez isn’t the only city in Mexico with a Sentinel System.

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  • EPEC’s Rate Increase

    2025-06-30 Rich Wright

    In this ElPasoMatters.com post, Diego Mendoza-Myers writes about EPEC’s plans to build out its system and what that means for EPEC’s customers. The El Paso

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  • “Intrigue”

    2025-06-29 elrichiboy
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  • “Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

    2025-06-28 elrichiboy
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How to Live Anywhere: Bloody Marys

2015-11-06 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 8 comments

If you’re like me, you’re probably worried that your diet of beer and tequila might not be giving you all

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This Just In

2015-11-05 elrichiboy Economic Development Leave a comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? Much to my surprise, there’s a school on the east

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What’s that smell?

2015-11-03 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Politics 3 comments

Sometimes, when I read the El Paso Times, I wonder if they think we’re all stupid of if they’re just

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Who Are These ‘Young Professionals’?

2015-11-02 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development One comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? The city is seeking proposals for an urban mixed-use, high-rise

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Addiction

2015-10-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a thought provoking video about the causes of addiction. I found it on the interwebs. Innersting, huh?

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Give Us the Future

2015-10-28 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

Maybe you haven’t been paying attention. Maybe you’ve been frittering your time away, worried about life’s mundane details like putting

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2025

2015-10-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development, Media, Politics 4 comments

What will El Paso look like in ten years? Who knows? But you can bet that it will look different.

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Start Worrying

2015-10-26 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Media, Politics 2 comments

According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, El Paso’s employment fell from 322,863 in August, 2013 to

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Stop Worrying

2015-10-26 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, It's All Good, Media, Politics Leave a comment

Didn’t you get the memo? It’s All Good.

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Media Manipulation

2015-10-23 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Media 2 comments

Update, 9:23, 23 Oct 2015: I went by the Franklin Apartments today and it looked like they’ve done some dirt

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News From Ciudad Juarez

2015-10-22 elrichiboy Juarez, Media Leave a comment

I’m not the only one who knows where the best place to hole up is. JUÁREZ, MEXICO—In an effort to

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The Cone of Silence

2015-10-22 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Politics One comment

At Tuesdays City Council meeting, you will recall, our elected officials decided, in Executive Session, to give the City Manager

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Deja Vu All Over Again

2015-10-21 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Politics One comment

More good news from the fine folks down at City Hall. Our elected officials have abdicated their responsibility to be

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Good News from Mexico

2015-10-20 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez One comment

Great news, everybody! According to this story in El Diario, Chihuahua is sitting on one of the largest shale gas

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Jailing Poor People

2015-10-17 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Remember that story about El Paso Municipal Court judges sending poor people to jail because they can’t pay their traffic

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The More Things Change

2015-10-16 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement, Media, Politics 2 comments

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times about our local gendarmerie apprehending a wanted fugitive? The El

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Well, There It Is

2015-10-15 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Politics 6 comments

The sociopaths running the city have decided that we’re getting a downtown arena, whether we need it or not. They

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How to Live in El Paso: AM 1060

2015-10-12 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

It’s nice to have someone curate the music for you. And someone over there at AM 1060 is curating great

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Joe Ely at Bowie Feathers Tonight

2015-10-08 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso One comment

Doors at 7:00, show at 8:00. See you there.

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More Ink in the National Press

2015-10-08 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement, Media 3 comments

Here’s a story on Buzzfeed, which prominently features El Paso: Levi Lane shuffled into the pews of the El Paso

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