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  • “The Fat Man”

    2025-09-07 elrichiboy
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  • Taxes, Tax Breaks and a Texas Two-Step

    2025-09-05 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson You may or may not have heard about Project Jupiter by now. No, it’s not the latest scheme by Elon Musk to

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  • “He Ran All the Way”

    2025-08-31 elrichiboy
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  • “BARRIO AZTECA: Cartel Wars on the Texas Border”

    2025-08-30 elrichiboy
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  • Leave It to the D.A.

    2025-08-26 Rich Wright

    Here’s one of those stories from the El Paso Times that made the front page of the dead tree edition but you have to look

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  • Retrovision: El Paso Police Are Taser Happy and the El Paso Times Doesn’t Want You to Know It

    2025-08-25 Rich Wright

    This story originally appeared on 8 December 2022. Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of the El Paso Times: One

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  • “The Glass Wall”

    2025-08-24 elrichiboy
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  • “Cartels, Tariffs and Fentanyl, the US-Mexico Border Showdown Investigated | Foreign Correspondent”

    2025-08-23 elrichiboy
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  • Another Mental Health Crisis Homicide at the Hands of EPPD

    2025-08-23 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Police Department has a thing for killing people having mental health crises. Check out this latest body-cam video: The guy was asking

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  • An Economic Forecast

    2025-08-22 Rich Wright

    Here’s part of an editorial from El Diario de Juarez:1 Ayer informamos que, a tasa mensual, la producción de la maquila en Ciudad Juárez cayó

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  • The Purge is Coming

    2025-08-21 Rich Wright

    Here’s a video about McAllen, Texas. El Paso might not be next, but it’s on the list.

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  • “Mister 880”

    2025-08-17 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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