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  • Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond

    2026-04-16 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson After a lapse of nearly one year-and-a-half, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) conducted a community meeting the evening of April 7

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  • Paul and Julie Ten Years After

    2026-04-13 Rich Wright

    On or about 05 October 2016, I took Paul and Julie to Juarez. Paul and Julie were ballroom dancers. Like The Sound of Music. Okay

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  • “The Gary Webb Story: CIA, Cocaine, and a Media Assassination”

    2026-04-11 elrichiboy
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  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela

    2026-04-09 elrichiboy

    If you are interested in the Torre Centinela that is almost fully operational in downtown Ciudad Juárez, then you should read this story from RestOfWorld.org.

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  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

    2026-04-05 elrichiboy
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  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”

    2026-04-03 Rich Wright

    (Scene: Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon.) Secretary Pete Hegseth: . . . and that, gentlemen, is how we will end this war.

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  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

    2026-03-31 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Data centers are a burning issue in the Paso del Norte borderland of 2026. Plans to open a giant data center complex

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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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The Bane of QoL: O & M

2014-12-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

El Paso is a cash-strapped town. Nobody foresaw that our boom years, when Fort Bliss was expanding and Juarez was

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Because They Care

2014-12-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Good news, El Paso. MountainStar Sports Group wants to save us money. According to this story in the El Paso

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Word of the Day

2014-12-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Corruption – dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people (such as government officials or police officers); source: www.merriam-webster.com Example

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Police Violence Isn’t New

2014-12-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a post from the Anunciation House blog recalling an earlier case of sudden death at the hands of peace

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Redevelopment Revisited

2014-12-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

How, do you suppose, will the “news” that El Paso’s under 35 population has the second lowest median income in

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Way Too Little, Too Late

2014-12-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

A local newspaper reported Saturday that Police Officer Jose Flores, one of El Paso’s Finest, was fired from the El

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Ouch

2014-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a cartoon I lifted from Insight Crime, a website devoted to enlightening readers to the peculiarities of organized crime

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The Real Problems

2014-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story from the Atlantic, analyzing census date using a new tool from the U.S. Census Bureau. According

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The San Jacinto Plaza Blog

2014-12-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you know that there’s a blog detailing the progress of the San Jacinto Plaza renovation? Can you imagine a

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A Sobering Thought

2014-11-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Remember that the same people that take two years to renovate a one acre park, the same people who are

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Why El Paso Doesn’t Vote

2014-11-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story in the El Paso Inc. reports that the city’s election participation rate is the worst in Texas. About

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Fact Check, Please

2014-11-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

A commenter posting under the handle Times Building Ghost on the blog Refuse the Juice said this: Do you know

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BRIO Revisited

2014-11-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

I am a big fan of public transportation. I like that effective public transportation relieves a person of the onerous

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Des Moines: A Model for Economic Development

2014-11-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

to this story from the National Journal, Des Moines is a hipster mecca. Young people here know what you think

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El Paso’s Sales Tax Receipts Stay Flat

2014-11-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to the Texas State Comptroller, sales tax receipts for the City of El Paso were flat for the past

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The 19th Largest City in the U.S.?

2014-11-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 4 comments

You have, no doubt, heard the oft repeated factoid that El Paso is the 19th biggest city in the U.S.

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I Rode the BRIO So You Wouldn’t Have To

2014-11-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m going to let you in on the dirty little secret that Sun Metro doesn’t want you to know: That

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Conspiracy Theory?

2014-11-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized 6 comments

Isn’t it great that I post two videos, and both of them get pulled? I tell you I am cutting

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Extraterrestrials Working for the Government

2014-11-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Gary Larsen’s Tales From The Far Side

2014-10-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Gary Larson's Tales From The Far Side by Arsene-desbois

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  • F.A. Sommerfeld on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • JerryK on El Paso is Falling
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  • John G. Dungan on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • Richard Moore on People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
  • Jessamyn C Young on People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
  • Aroop Mangalik on People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
  • Sinister Publications on Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway
  • F.A. Sommerfeld on Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway
  • Talli Nauman on March Meeting, Reports Flag Paso del Norte Air Pollution Trouble Spots

El Chuqueño Lately

  • Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond
  • Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • “The Gary Webb Story: CIA, Cocaine, and a Media Assassination”
  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela
  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

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