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  • “EL PASO, WHERE SUNSHINE SPENDS THE WINTER”

    2025-10-23 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey One hundred years ago, before El Paso simply advertised and referred to itself as the “Sun City,” the municipality boasted the slogan,

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  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

    2025-10-20 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright This article, or something very much like it, originally appeared on NewspaperTree.com in early May, 2008. There’s this brain drain argument that’s

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  • “The Other Woman”

    2025-10-19 elrichiboy
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  • “The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

    2025-10-18 elrichiboy

    Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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  • Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-10-17 Rich Wright

    Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing organizations. In response to the

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  • Ninja Convention

    2025-10-16 Rich Wright

    The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade on Montana last night. Kudos

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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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  • The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises

    2025-10-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Amid the landscape of yucca and creosote plants, artificial intelligence-driven Project Stargate took shape this week just a tad up the road from

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  • Diminishing El Paso

    2025-10-06 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue to see little to moderate

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  • “Highway Dragnet”

    2025-10-05 elrichiboy
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  • “The 1916 [Irish] Rising of Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”

    2025-10-04 elrichiboy
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  • Ouch!

    2025-10-03 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times delivered its mandated circulation report on page 5A of Thursday’s dead tree edition, and it’s not pretty. On July 25, 2025,

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Murder at Yankee’s Bar

2014-03-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story in LaPolaka, a man was killed in Yankee’s Bar this weekend after getting into an argument

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They mean well, I think.

2014-03-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I don’t hate El Paso. I’m not against downtown development. What I hate are people who pretend that they know

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Leeser is kind of like Obama

2014-03-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

Lots of the people who voted for Oscar Leeser, expecting Hope and Change, must be kind of disappointed that he’s

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The Big Picture

2014-03-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The sad part is that the Borderplex Alliance can’t brag about its successes. At least, not in El Paso. But

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The More Things Change . . .

2014-03-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in La Polaka, the new commandant of the the Federal Police in Juarez, Jorge Armando Pavón

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Secret Emails and the Lizard People

2014-03-10 elrichiboy City Council, Politics One comment

Every citizen of El Paso should be troubled by the City’s actions, and inactions, concerning the “secret” emails demanded by

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Downtown El Paso: The Land of Opportunity

2014-03-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Good news for all those ballpark advocates: There is still lots of opportunity in downtown El Paso! With the Southwestern

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Weekend at Fernie’s

2014-03-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you see this story in the Diario about the guys in Juarez who were driving around with the corpse

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Meth Mango Recovered

2014-03-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You probably missed the story about the stolen 10 ton mango. That’s okay, it’s been found — with a meth

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Psycho-cybernetic Enhancements

2014-02-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m not talking cyborg. There’s a new generation of apps and websites that teach you to function better. According to

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A Structural Analysis of the Deep State

2014-02-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Here’s an insightful analysis of how things work in America. There is the visible government situated around the Mall in

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A Plague of Biblical Proportions

2014-02-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It could happen here. An Arizona town is overrun with tiny pooches that are terrorizing children and defecating anywhere they

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Is the Lottery rigged?

2014-02-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

No, not at all. Every other institution in this country is hopelessly corrupt, but not the one that gives away

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Observations on the State of Journalism

2014-02-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Time mgazine’s cover story on Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto was widely panned on the internet and social media, and

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Because El Paso

2014-02-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The John Cook campaign launched their website this week. Here’s a link. You should look at it. Then you should

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Quebrando Malo

2014-02-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the extended trailer for the Spanish Breaking Bad, set in Colombia. It’s exactly the same. Only different.

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We’re Number 46!

2014-02-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The United States, the world’s superpower, has been surrendering it’s moral high ground ever since, and probably before, 9/11. When

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Glass Beach Holiday

2014-02-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’ve been trying to figure out why the City’s recent branding efforts have been off-key. They refuse to acknowledge that

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Market Manipulation?

2014-02-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s something interesting I noticed: The price of Western Refining (WNR) stock has dropped more than 15 percent since its

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“The Disadvantages of an Elite Education”

2014-02-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

I’ve noticed that people who go to a name brand university, and even those who who go to a lower

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  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

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