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  • The Apartment

    2025-05-14 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright His hands are filthy. He looks at them where they protrude from the frayed cuffs of his dark flannel shirt as though

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  • Blow, Wind, Blow

    2025-05-13 Rich Wright

    From a May 4 post on Gizmodo.com: This year’s drought-exacerbated dusty season is “truly exceptional—one for the record books,” said Thomas Gill, an environmental scientist

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  • “Yes, Your Arrogancy”

    2025-05-12 elrichiboy

    From ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso City Council this week will take another look at public engagement at meetings after a vote limiting audience speakers to

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  • Lady Liberty

    2025-05-11 Kent Paterson
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  • The New Soccer Stadium

    2025-04-26 Rich Wright

    From Mexico’s national media outlet Milenio.com: Alejandra de la Vega, propietaria de los Bravos de Juárez, ha confirmado uno de los proyectos más ambiciosos en

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  • “Prohibition Era Bars in Juarez”

    2025-04-24 elrichiboy

    Local historian and frequent contributor to El Chuqueño Bob Chessey gives a talk about the proliferation of bars and bar owners on Saturday, April 26,

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  • A Border Story You Might Have Missed

    2025-04-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson If you rely on El Paso online media for your news, you might have missed one of the biggest stories in the

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  • About the Deck Park

    2025-04-23 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright You may have noticed that the deck park is still in play, even after funding sources have dried up. Here’s Mayor Renard

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  • Elephant March

    2025-04-22 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright When I was six, my father took me to the circus. My father drank a lot, and drunk or sober he seemed

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  • Sphere and Shakedown in Las Vegas: 60 Years Later the Grateful Dead Family Keeps Truckin’ On

    2025-04-21 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson For the second year in a row, the Good Ship Terrapin Station has landed in Las Vegas, Nevada. The prestigious passengers disembarking

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  • Retrovision: I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

    2025-04-16 elrichiboy

    This post originally appeared on 23 Novemeber, 2021. I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing

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  • Community Forum with EPISD D1 Candidates

    2025-04-15 Xavier Miranda

    From Xavier Miranda Please consider attending this community forum.  Our public schools face daunting challenges coming from the federal and state levels.  An array of

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Life in the USA

2015-03-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s something you don’t see every day. A guy getting set up by a local law enforcement and a compliant

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New boss, same as the old boss

2015-03-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In El Paso, if a political faction doesn’t have anything constructive to offer, they go on the attack. If someone

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Moonlighting

2015-02-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I was browsing the most interesting site on the internet, and I found this. Bryan Crowe is the City of

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Keeping it Real

2015-02-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a video from the Borderplex Alliance website, which asks “Can you still get someplace real in America?” Yeah, folklorico

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And then there’s this . . .

2015-02-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

From the Times: “[Billy] Abraham owns several local businesses and buildings, primarily in Downtown El Paso. He also promoted Wednesday’s

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The New Face of the Retail Drug Trade in Juarez

2015-02-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting special feature from El Diario about the retail drug trade in Juarez. They say the puchadores have

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The End is Near, but It’s All Good!

2015-02-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Here’s a story to cheer you up. Things are getting improbably worse than you could imagine. Large sections of the

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Social Activist’s Body Found in Morelos

2015-02-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Some people in Mexico think that the government had more culpability in the disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa

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Mexico Offers Undocumented Americans Amnesty

2015-02-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For a limited time, U.S. citizens living in Mexico illegally can normalize their status, according to this story. The issue

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Mesilla Park State Representative Proposes Legalizing Pot

2015-02-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in the Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico State Representative Bill McCamley was discouraged but not dissuaded by

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Shadow Prisons: How the Government Built More Private Prisons and Then Arrested More People

2015-02-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story (that incidentally features nice photos of El Paso): A Fusion investigation found that without a single

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America’s Largest Street Gang: a video about law-enforcement

2015-02-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

If you think we have it bad here in El Paso, where the police only occasionally murder a handcuffed prisoner,

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From Zero to $129,000 a Month in Four Months

2015-02-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According the Texas State Comptroller, the top five locations in El Paso for liquor sales in December were: Bar Fly

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Is Retaliation the EPPD’s Unofficial Policy?

2015-02-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, Sociology Professor Alice Goffman recounts In interviews, Warrant Unit officers

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Stop the Presses! El Paso Times Publishes (almost) Critical Editorial!

2015-02-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

In an uncharacteristically critical editorial on Sunday, the El Paso Times noted the limits of El Paso’s recent unemployment report.

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How to Live in El Paso

2015-02-03 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Some people think we need to spend a half a billion dollars to make El Paso an attractive place to

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Is the Border Patrol Out of Control?

2015-02-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There was the incident last week where Border Patrol agents chased a man for thirty miles before they shot him

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About the Camino Real

2015-01-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Locals are the worst people to ask about hotels, because mostly locals don’t stay in local hotels. The Camino Real

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White King Puto

2015-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m thinking the branding company didn’t perform due diligence seeing how this product name translated into other cultural contexts. Or

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Deflate-gate Started in 2007

2015-01-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here is an extremely interesting analysis of the New England Patriots recent seasons, which seems to indicate that maybe the

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