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  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

    2026-03-22 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martinez Given the recent disturbing revelations about Cesar Chávez, it seems certain that the local Border Highway’s name will be changed.  Many

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  • “Hangover Square”

    2026-03-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Rise and Ruin of the Coca-Cola Family”

    2026-03-21 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso is Falling

    2026-03-13 Rich Wright

    The trusted institutions we count on are letting us down. The streets are crumbling. The water utility can’t keep the water flowing. Texas Gas Services

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  • The 13th Anniversary of the Killing of Daniel Saenz

    2026-03-08 Rich Wright

    Today is the 13th anniversary of the day that El Paso Police Department Officer Jose Flores shot and killed the handcuffed prisoner Daniel Saenz in

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  • Lucille Ball in “The Dark Corner”

    2026-03-08 elrichiboy
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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part Two: Preface and Postscript to “Black Sunday”

    2026-03-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson On a recent sunny day, tourists and locals on Puerto Vallarta’s ocean front boardwalk, the Malecon, watched intensely as a Mexican navy

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  • The Biggest Campaign of the Season

    2026-03-02 Rich Wright

    The biggest campaign of this election season isn’t taking place by any candidate on the ballot. The President of the University of Texas at El

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  • Economic Undevelopment

    2026-02-25 Rich Wright

    According to ElDiario.mx, El Paso lost 750 jobs in the last four months of 2025. Juarez lost 17,000 maquila jobs in all of 2025. That

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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part One: Hurricane Mencho

    2026-02-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Fear, hunger, thirst and uncertainty. That’s what folks in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco lived through on February 22, now undoubtedly one of the

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  • “Where Texas Begins”

    2026-02-21 Rich Wright

    The latest (several years old) tagline from Visit El Paso/the Convention and Visitors Center/Destination El Paso appears to be “Where Texas Begins”. Of course Texas

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  • Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall in “Confidential Agent”

    2026-02-15 elrichiboy
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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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Urban Removal Redux

2015-08-24 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 4 comments

Demolition in our urban core not only destroys historic buildings, it destroys any chance of revitalizing downtown. What’s going to

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Police Narratives

2015-08-23 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Here are a couple of stories from the national press that may make you question what you hear from the

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