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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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  • “You’re Fired!”

    2026-02-14 Rich Wright

    Remember when Donald Trump’s tagline was “You’re fired!” One might think that he’d be pulling that old standard out again, what with the clown car

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  • “YEMEN: A Forgotten Earth Where Time Still Breathes”

    2026-02-14 elrichiboy
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  • “Love in a Man’s World”

    2026-02-08 elrichiboy
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  • Mexico: Where Women Increasingly Rule

    2026-02-07 Kent Paterson

    by Kent Paterson In case you haven’t noticed, political power in Mexico is increasingly in the hands of women. That reality was proudly stated by

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  • MEXICO’S FORCED LAND CESSIONS TO THE UNITED STATES

    2026-02-02 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martínez The year 2026 (on February 2) marks the 178th anniversary of the signing of one of the most important treaties in

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  • Gone Fishing

    2026-01-28 J. Eugenio Cotera E.

    by J. Eugenio Cotera E. As a young kid growing up in the vast and sparse Chihuahuan Desert, I believed that fish simply materialized wherever

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  • The Anti-Immigrant Family Judge

    2026-01-27 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org: Attorneys with the immigration advocacy group Estrella del Paso last month asked that District Court Judge Marlene Gonzalez recuse herself

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  • “How We Make Hope Normal Again”

    2026-01-26 elrichiboy

    This is a Green Party ad from England and Wales.

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F*ck you, Pig

2013-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This new study posits that humans arose as a chimpanzee/pig hybrid. Now it all makes sense.

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Country Justice

2013-12-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from LaPolaka from a couple of days ago. It seems that the Villa Ahumada chief of police

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More on Developing Downtown

2013-12-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I love walkable communities. I’m all for making downtown work. But baseball stadiums and arenas and museums aren’t going to

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Some Earnest Questions About Downtown Development

2013-12-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Are the citizens of El Paso supposed to keep pouring money into downtown until all the downtown real estate speculators

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Schisms in the War on Drugs

2013-12-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the article from the Guardian detailing policy differences between U.N. member nations on future drug policy. The story claims

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More on Mexico’s Garitas

2013-12-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexican President and GQ poster boy, says that closing the Aduana’s garitas is good for Juarez. It’s

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Thanksgiving Family Feud

2013-11-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Yesterday we had Thanksgiving at our house. All the relatives came. We were drinking, and then we started talking politics,

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No More Internal Migration Checks

2013-11-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in La Polaka, the Mexican government has decommissioned the customs checkpoints on highways from the border

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Thanks, America, by William Burroughs

2013-11-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the stuff that William Burroughs had to be thankful for, 1986. Pretty cynical, god bless him. I lifted this

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Where’s the Love?

2013-11-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This column by Nicholas Kristoff shines a light on it. He claims that rich people think they earned it, so

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Wikipedia and the Ballpark

2013-11-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Wikipedia has a post up about the ballpark. Unfortunately, the article is devoid of a lot of the real story

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100 Things

2013-11-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My friend Tony Testa posted this on Facebook. It’s never too late to learn.

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The Donkey and the Well: A Parable

2013-11-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

An old donkey fell in a well. The donkey was old, and the well was dry, so the farmer decided

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Paul Krugman’s New Normal

2013-11-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The problem, Mr. Krugman points out, riffing on Larry Summers’ speech to the IMF, is that we’re not all buying

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Worse Than ASCAP

2013-11-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in El Diario, people are killing vendors of pirated CD’s and DVD’s on Juarez streets. A

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Downtown Parking

2013-11-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Maybe you’ve negotiated the Times excruciating new website to read this story about a study for a new parking garage

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American Democracy Unmasked

2013-11-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Listen to this cynical (probably entirely correct) rant from former Fox News commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about the state of

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The Middle Class is Obsolete

2013-11-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this interesting article from Alternet, the decline in the middle class is of no concern to the wealthy,

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More on Dwntwn

2013-11-11 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development One comment

By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about the Downtown Management District shenanigans. To recap quickly,

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The End of the Interwebs

2013-11-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this opinion piece from Wired, we all better enjoy the internet while we can. The country’s second highest

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