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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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Except for the shooting, the war is over.

2012-08-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“I’d go to Juarez,” the straw man said, “except for all the killing.” (read more)

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Does El Paso need downtown development?

2012-08-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

All across American, downtowns are in trouble. They’re dead, or dying. It’s epidemic. When happy motoring drew middle class Americans

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Eeewww

2012-08-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “While being booked last Thursday night at the Doña Ana

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When machetes attack

2012-08-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “Las Cruces Police detectives learned that Gower was at 810

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The economic impact of a downtown baseball stadium

2012-08-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Are they crazy? Seventy-one games a year. Four hours a game, including pedestrian commute time. The rest of the time,

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Militant Bicyclists

2012-08-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Is it any surprise that most cyclists indentify as atheists and liberals?” (read more) Hat tip to Federico Villalba.

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Music Under the Influence

2012-08-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Have y’all been to Music Under the Stars lately? Of course you haven’t, because they’re not letting you bring your

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What if the baseball team sucks?

2012-07-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

What if the team sucks? Because (spoiler alert), they do. (read more)

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Strike One!

2012-07-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m sure they mean well, those private investors and city politicians who want to build a baseball stadium in downtown

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Seven a.m.

2012-07-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I hate vodka. I hate the icepick headaches that are the signature feature of vodka hangovers. I hate not knowing

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Mexican kidnap cops caught on video

2012-06-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story about some policia in Jalisco, barging into a hotel and picking up three men who were later

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Dancin’ Boots

2012-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I really love your hair, not many women can pull that off, she says. I smile and thank her, my

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American Exceptionalism?

2012-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You do not have to believe in the superiority of your country over others to love your country. The globalization

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Cartel rumors or brain tumors?

2012-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story comes to us from the Arizone Republic via Molly Malloy at Frontera List. “Although the grisly deaths were

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The 16th District from 20,000 feet

2012-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Economist wrote about the 16th Congressional District of Texas primary campaign between Beto O’Rourke and Silvestre Reyes. While they

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El Clausurado

Trouble in Paradise

2012-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

  Last week I went to Juarez to see which bars were being closed. (read more)

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Never let a crisis go to waste

2012-04-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The building that burned down on a Friday in April was not particularly important, despite the gnashing of teeth over

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In Defense of Flea Markets

2012-04-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

  Admittedly, they could have come up with a better name for the flea market. Over the past decade, various

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