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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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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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  • “The Spider”

    2025-06-22 elrichiboy
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How to Live in El Paso: The Ron Coleman Trail

2015-09-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

The Ron Coleman Trail starts at the end of McKelligon Canyon, climbs to the ridge, and then snakes along the

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El Paso Bike Share

2015-09-24 elrichiboy Downtown 9 comments

Bike share! What a great idea! I love to ride my bike. And now there’s rental bikes, all over the

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Weather Report

2015-09-23 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Media One comment

It rained Saturday. Claire’s parents were out of town. She went by their house, and both the Wall Street Journal

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VIP El Paso

2015-09-21 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

Noted El Chuqueño commenter and international man of mystery Rex Kramer had this to say about the City’s current downtown

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NYC to Teach Computer Science to All Students

2015-09-16 elrichiboy Economic Development Leave a comment

Remember back in April, when El Chuqueño advocated teaching computer coding in our public schools? Apparently New York City Mayor

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Blame the Politicians

2015-09-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, It's All Good, Law Enforcement, Politics One comment

Here’s an article written in 1984 by Charlie Reese, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel. It just landed in my

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The Future Revealed?

2015-09-12 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

Sometimes I like to pretend that our city leaders occasionally roll down the windows of their luxury sports coupes and

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A Column from Mr. Diamondstein

2015-09-11 elrichiboy Politics 3 comments

Those of you who don’t read El Paso’s English language daily may have missed this column by adjunct lecturer in

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A Politician’s Spin on Economic Development

2015-09-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story in the El Paso Times, Mayor Oscar Leeser had this to say about El Paso’s economic

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The Pitch – Low and Outside

2015-09-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Politics One comment

You know that when Mayor Oscar Leeser and Borderplex Alliance President Rolando Pablos hit the road trying to entice businesses

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The Falling Peso

2015-09-10 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez Leave a comment

In the past year, the Mexican peso has lost more than 25 percent of it’s value. A year ago it

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More El Paso Branding Efforts

2015-09-09 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, It's All Good Leave a comment

I almost feel bad making fun of these guys. Obviously they’re doing their darnedest. On the other hand, El Paso’s

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Downtown El Paso: Field of Dreams

2015-09-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 3 comments

Been downtown lately? There are lots of things happening downtown. Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of people. Maybe the people

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Coincidence?

2015-08-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Then there’s this that just popped up on the El Paso Times website: El Paso police found more than a

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Downtown El Paso: Creating an Ambience

2015-08-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development One comment

This morning I posted a piece about Sense of Place. Now I’m going to tell you about something similar: Ambience.

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Money Making Opportunity

2015-08-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, It's All Good, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

You know who could make a lot of money in El Paso? A lawyer who specialized in suing the police.

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Sense of Place

2015-08-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Here’s a nugget from Urbanland, the magazine of the Urban Land Institute, written by Edward T. McMahon: In 2010, the

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Viejas Puchadoras

2015-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story from our friends at La Polaka tells us about two matronly types who were arrested in Juarez for

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Some Friendly Advice

2015-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

From my friend a former federal agent: If you’re ever in a knife fight, and you get to the other

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How to Live in El Paso: Your Third Place

2015-08-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

The Moctezuma Cafe was a little dive bar in downtown El Paso. It was a block from the courthouse and

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