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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

    2025-11-01 elrichiboy

    With music by David Romo.

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  • Bullfight Tonight!

    2025-10-31 Rich Wright

    The 2025 bullfighting season carries on tonight with another spectacle at the Aberto Balderas Bullring in downtown Juarez. Tonight’s headliner is El Zapata. From LaPrensa.org,

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  • Gregory Peck in “The Case of the Enchanted Prisoner”

    2025-10-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

    2025-10-25 elrichiboy
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  • “EL PASO, WHERE SUNSHINE SPENDS THE WINTER”

    2025-10-23 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey One hundred years ago, before El Paso simply advertised and referred to itself as the “Sun City,” the municipality boasted the slogan,

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  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

    2025-10-20 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright This article, or something very much like it, originally appeared on NewspaperTree.com in early May, 2008. There’s this brain drain argument that’s

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  • “The Other Woman”

    2025-10-19 elrichiboy
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  • “The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

    2025-10-18 elrichiboy

    Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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  • Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-10-17 Rich Wright

    Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing organizations. In response to the

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  • Ninja Convention

    2025-10-16 Rich Wright

    The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade on Montana last night. Kudos

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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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Harvest! Harvest! Harvest!

2016-02-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

This is what happens when you don’t harvest your broccoli when it’s ready. It might still be delicious. And now

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How to Live in El Paso: The Boost

2016-02-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez One comment

Here’s a cool book about a distopian future set right here in El Paso and Juarez. The Boost tells the

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And they all lived happily ever after.

2016-02-24 elrichiboy City Council, Media, Politics One comment

Let me tell you how the City Manager Tommy Gonzalez saga is going to end. The City will buy Mr.

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It depends on who you are

2016-02-23 elrichiboy City Council, It's All Good, Media, Politics 4 comments

Remember just a few short years ago, when City Council was circumventing state law to award El Paso a Triple

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Here’s the proof

2016-02-22 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

For the people who doubt that Juarez is getting better, here’s evidence, from the El Paso Times: Two men suspected

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Bienvenidos, No Passport Required

2016-02-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Juarez 2 comments

Are you still not going to Juarez because you don’t have a passport? Your reluctance is unfounded. Here’s a quote

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Oops, again.

2016-02-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Media One comment

The Pope is coming to Juarez to highlight his message about immigration? What a great opportunity to talk up El

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An Acceptable Level of Risk?

2016-02-15 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Law Enforcement, Media, Politics 2 comments

If you want to know what it’s like to live in a police state, try walking through the Segundo Barrio

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Papal Economics

2016-02-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Juarez, Law Enforcement, Media, Uncategorized 2 comments

Besides the million dollars we’re spending on security, do you think the Pope’s visit to Juarez will have an economic

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Goodbye

2016-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

You could have called to say goodbye. I might have tried to stop you, but maybe not. Everyone has the

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How to win friends and influence people

2016-01-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development 4 comments

With their current rate case, El Paso Electric Company (EPEC) is sticking it to its El Paso ratepayers so hard

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Deliver us from idiots.

2016-01-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Politics 3 comments

Let me get this straight. To highlight his message on immigration, the Pope will visit the actual border (presumably, the

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A hundred years ago . . .

2016-01-27 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

I was in Ciudad Chihuahua, in a bar in a restaurant close to the Hotel Victoria. I was delivering the

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Compra Venta

2016-01-19 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 4 comments

I’m sitting at a booth at a window on the third floor of the Mercado Cuahtémoc, across the street from

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Cable Update

2016-01-12 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown 6 comments

Do you suppose this is the cable that we had to reorder from Germany, because the first one was too

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How to Live Anywhere: Weed Pesto

2016-01-11 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 4 comments

If you live in El Paso, you probably have London Rocket growing in your yard right now. I guarantee that

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Don’t Blame Bob

2016-01-09 elrichiboy Media, Politics Leave a comment

Lots of people blame El Paso Times Editor Bob Moore for a perceived slant to the coverage in our English

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Mildly Interesting

2016-01-07 elrichiboy Juarez, Politics Leave a comment

This is the new sculpture they’ve erected in Juarez. It replaces the sculpture of an angel that some people thought

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Idle Speculation

2015-12-30 elrichiboy City Council, It's All Good, Media, Politics 3 comments

Do you suppose the local heavyweights turned sour on City Manager Tommy Gonzalez when they discovered that he would award

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A Present from Our Friends at City Hall

2015-12-26 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Media, Politics Leave a comment

The agenda for the December 7 Special Meeting of the City Council included this item: Discussion and action that the

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