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  • CRRUA in the Whirlwind: The Future of People and Water in Sunland Park-Santa Teresa at the Crossroads

    2025-05-17 Kent Paterson

    by Kent Paterson Like the wind, dust and mist that sting the spring of 2025, stormy developments surround the fundamental question of water and wastewater

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  • The Apartment

    2025-05-14 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright His hands are filthy. He looks at them where they protrude from the frayed cuffs of his dark flannel shirt as though

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  • Blow, Wind, Blow

    2025-05-13 Rich Wright

    From a May 4 post on Gizmodo.com: This year’s drought-exacerbated dusty season is “truly exceptional—one for the record books,” said Thomas Gill, an environmental scientist

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  • “Yes, Your Arrogancy”

    2025-05-12 elrichiboy

    From ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso City Council this week will take another look at public engagement at meetings after a vote limiting audience speakers to

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  • Lady Liberty

    2025-05-11 Kent Paterson
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  • The New Soccer Stadium

    2025-04-26 Rich Wright

    From Mexico’s national media outlet Milenio.com: Alejandra de la Vega, propietaria de los Bravos de Juárez, ha confirmado uno de los proyectos más ambiciosos en

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  • “Prohibition Era Bars in Juarez”

    2025-04-24 elrichiboy

    Local historian and frequent contributor to El Chuqueño Bob Chessey gives a talk about the proliferation of bars and bar owners on Saturday, April 26,

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  • A Border Story You Might Have Missed

    2025-04-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson If you rely on El Paso online media for your news, you might have missed one of the biggest stories in the

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  • About the Deck Park

    2025-04-23 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright You may have noticed that the deck park is still in play, even after funding sources have dried up. Here’s Mayor Renard

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  • Elephant March

    2025-04-22 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright When I was six, my father took me to the circus. My father drank a lot, and drunk or sober he seemed

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  • Sphere and Shakedown in Las Vegas: 60 Years Later the Grateful Dead Family Keeps Truckin’ On

    2025-04-21 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson For the second year in a row, the Good Ship Terrapin Station has landed in Las Vegas, Nevada. The prestigious passengers disembarking

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  • Retrovision: I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

    2025-04-16 elrichiboy

    This post originally appeared on 23 Novemeber, 2021. I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing

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Name that Team

2013-06-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s my take on the El Paso Triple A Baseball Team Naming Fiasco, henceforth, Namegate. (Here’s the story in the

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How Steve-O Lost the Election

2013-06-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I think Steve was clueless. I think that his lopsided loss in the general election caught him flatfooted. He surrounded

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Mr. Natural wants to know

2013-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In response to The Road to Economic Development, Mr. Natural asks Right on about promoting cultural and educational values in

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When hackers attack

2013-06-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My web host informs me that someone has been trying to access El Chuqueno through a brute force attack. I’m

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The Road to Economic Development

2013-06-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 6 comments

As an El Pasoan, I appreciate the civic improvements that City Hall is foisting on us.  (Can I even call

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More on It’s All Good

2013-05-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s what the Urban Dictionary has to say about It’s All Good: Platitude that covers so many emotions and situations

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El Paso. It’s all good.

2013-05-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

I know it’s impolite (maybe even unpatriotic to the point of treason) to be critical of the current regime in

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Inmates run Maryland prison

2013-04-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Just like in The Wire, maybe, Season Six. The indictment described a jailhouse seemingly out of control. Four corrections officers

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Know the Lowrider

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“We spend more on our cars than we do on our houses,” Larry added. Larry is a member of Our

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Mercado Cerrajeros in Juarez, the durable consumer good graveyard.

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

It’s off of Libertad, in La Chaveña. ” like an elephant graveyard for consumer goods.” (read more at What’s Up.)

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It’s extremely insensitive to steal the guy’s wheels when he’s dead under the truck.

2013-03-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Some time during the night, an unknown person reportedly removed Goodyear Wrangler tires, two Ford factory aluminum wheels and the

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I say handball, you say rebote

2013-03-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In English we call it handball. In Spanish it’s rebote a mano con pelota dura, or rebote for short. They

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Buses to bars

2013-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Despite El Pasoans’ reluctance to take, or even talk about, the bus, Sun Metro seems complicit in a plot to

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El Paso’s Secret City Government Secret Emails

2013-01-14 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

What is the City hiding in their personal emails? A walking quorum? A narco-nexus? Jimmy Hoffa? Secret payoffs to the

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Were you violent? Here’s why.

2013-01-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There is a significant correlation between the use of leaded gasoline and incidences of violent crime. [L]ead emissions from automobiles

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Are you fat? Here’s why.

2013-01-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I heard this a year ago as we were slipping through the dappled shadows on Gavilan Canyon Road, listening to

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The Kentucky Club

2013-01-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Kentucky Club, just over the Santa Fe Street pedestrian bridge in Downtown El Paso, is easily El Paso’s most

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Trust the Church

2012-12-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Catholic Church, god bless them, are the official arbiters of morality, as far as they’re concerned. So it’s a

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Drug War Mexico and the Narcoeconomy

2012-12-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

A friend of mine who might know (and therefore should remain anonymous) says that the government in Mexico runs the

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Camping at Franklin Mountains State Park

2012-12-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Franklin Mountain State Park is reportedly the largest urban wilderness park in the continental United States. There’s no word

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