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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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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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The 5 C’s

2014-10-30 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development One comment

When I was in grade school, shortly after the discovery of fire but before the invention of the wheel, we

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600 Days and Counting

2014-10-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s been 600 days since an El Paso Police officer shot and killed a handcuffed prisoner in the sallyport of

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Good News and Bad News

2014-10-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This week the El Paso Inc. brought us both good news and bad news. The good news is that there

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The Purple Zone Revisited

2014-10-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Remember that story about the DEA raid on the smoke shop in Alpine? How the feds showed up dressed for

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All My Friends

2014-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

This just in: a new company will offer tours to our sister city this winter. Juarez Lowrider Tours is offering

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Why Democracy Will Never Work in El Paso

2014-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“If it’s entirely a numbers game—numeric representation—then obviously you’d be talking to half the people in Hong Kong [that] earn

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Marketing Advice from today’s Wall Street Journal

2014-10-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Find your identity, and then throw everything you have behind that, because that’s going to be the most honest and

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