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  • Earl Grant “Autumn Leaves”

    2025-07-18 elrichiboy
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  • La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez

    2025-07-17 Rich Wright

    You’d have to be older than I am to remember La Fiesta in downtown Juarez, and I’m pretty old. La Fiesta used to be a

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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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Mr. Rogers neighborhood, or equivalent

2015-05-01 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 4 comments

I recommend you get a house in an old neighborhood. Not just a house in an old neighborhood. A house

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Our Secret: Code

2015-04-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

If El Paso really wanted to be on the leading edge in the jobs market, the schools would teach coding.

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They Think You’re Stupid. They Might Be Right.

2015-04-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you know, that no matter how much money MountainStar Sports Group makes from that ballpark, El Pasoans will never

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Come on, we’ve got this.

2015-04-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to data collected for this paper on patterns of drinking in the American Journal of Public Health, El Paso

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Revolution

2015-04-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’ve got this crazy idea. What if, before City Council votes on anything, we ask each Representative if they received

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It seems apt

2015-04-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Here’s a quote, dubiously attributed to Charles Bukowski, that seems appropriate to the local political scene. “The problem with the

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From That Guy Who Always Rings Twice

2015-04-24 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Uncategorized Leave a comment

I got a couple of interesting political advertisements in the mail today. One was from Yes! Yes! For El Paso

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Homegrown

2015-04-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

If you’ve ever eaten a fresh tomato in winter, you’ve probably eaten a tomato grown by slaves. If you’re one

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Over the line

2015-04-22 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez Leave a comment

If El Paso wants to thrive, we need to reduce the disincentives to crossing the border. We need to debunk

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We’re not citizens, we’re subjects.

2015-04-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

How much of a voice do you have in the way you’re governed? Did you get a vote on the

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Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

2015-04-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you see where El Paso’s unemployment rate was below the national average again last month? Economists are puzzled, because

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Tony’s Stainless Steel Taco Stand

2015-04-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My friend Tony bought a stainless steel cart, suitable for selling tacos from. Tony lives in Juarez. Selling tacos is

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You’ll find it all embracing

2015-04-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

At the Taj Mahal of racing Come to the beautiful, wonderful, elegant Come to the Juarez Racetrack

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The El Paso Inc. vs. Billy Abraham

2015-04-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

You remember, no doubt, that series of articles by Robert Gray about Billy Abraham in the El Paso Inc. a

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Luther Come Home

2015-04-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story in the El Paso Times, former County Judge Luther Jones has been released to a halfway

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El Herradero de Los Soto

2015-04-15 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 5 comments

Somehow, the greatest places in Juarez have survived. El Herradero de Los Soto is a steak joint on Hermanos Escobar,

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Curiouser and curiouser

2015-04-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Isn’t it funny how the City of El Paso’s imminent insolvency is blowing up the local blogosphere, but none of

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You better El Paso Up, y’all

2015-04-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did you see El Paso’s new slogan to attract tourists? “You Better El Paso Up” will soon replace “Real Adventure”

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Now there’s a surprise

2015-04-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in the El Paso’s Times El Paso taxpayers had to make up for a larger-than-expected shortfall

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Gallup-Healthways: El Paso #3 for Well-Being

2015-04-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to a recent poll, El Paso tied for third with Raliegh, North Carolina, and the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, California, Metropolitan

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