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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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  • 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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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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Stockton, The Future of El Paso

2014-02-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I just came across this story about Stockton, California, in the Huffington Post. It sounds eerily familiar: A $47 million

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The Brownfield Empire

2014-02-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

If any of you who read El Chuqueño don’t read The Brownfield Empire, you are doing yourselves a disservice. Here’s

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Snowden’s Interview with German TeeVee (in English)

2014-02-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I had no idea that Edward Snowden’s interview with German television hadn’t been covered by U.S. so-called mainstream media, until

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Even She Knows She’s Bullshitting

2014-02-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times reported that City Manager Joyce Wilson spoke to the Central Business Association last week. “The role

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Happy New Year!

2014-01-31 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

Yesterday I took a Chinese family over to Juarez. It was Chinese New Year’s Eve. We walked over, and got

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County Elections: Why bother?

2014-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Well, the county elections are coming up. So what? None of the incumbents have a lot to brag about what

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Deport the Biebs?

2014-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Biebs is lucky he’s not a poor Mexican: I think it’s fair to say then that if Bieber’s neighbor’s

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Those Poor Guys at the Borderplex Alliance

2014-01-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The ballpark stunt really backfired for the Hunts. Obama mobilized a disenfranchised electorate in 2008, and then Beto fanned the

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Strange Object on the Moon

2014-01-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story about some weird structure(?) on the moon. The wedge-shaped object, which has seven circular points evenly arranged

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I’ve Got a Secret

2014-01-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Don’t tell anyone, but I think the El Paso Times paywall isn’t working. They announced it last December, in an

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Pope’s Peace Doves Attacked

2014-01-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s hard to not read some symbolism into this story from The Guardian: Two white doves that were released as

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Is El Paso one of them?

2014-01-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story from the Chicago Tribune, detailing the woes of Redflex, a company that provides those red light

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Western Refining in the Mexoplex

2014-01-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did you see this story on KFOX, about a white powder coating cars, houses, and laundry around the Western Refinery?

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