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  • “The Thinking Game”

    2026-08-29 elrichiboy
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  • “World for Ransom”

    2026-08-30 elrichiboy
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  • Instrumenta antiqua stultis antiquis.

    2026-08-27 Tim Holt

    by Tim Holt Here is a little game you can play with your coworkers: try to find a document at your work that is written

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  • Juangabrielisimo in Juarez

    2026-08-26 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright Juan Gabriel is the biggest star to ever come out of Juarez. For Mexican music, Juan Gabriel is Elvis and Prince and

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  • The Data Center Chronicles: The Storms of Jupiter Whip the Summer of ’26

    2026-08-25 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson If the summer monsoon has been a huge letdown this year, then developments around the giant AI data center under construction in

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  • The Future of El Paso | Inspired by True Events

    2026-08-23 Guest Column

    by Andres Powers I. The Ledger Start with what is already true, because prophecy is cheap and the record is not. In 2012 the city

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  • The Restorative Power of Restaurants

    2026-08-21 J. Eugenio Cotera E.

    by Javier E. Cotera The date was a Sunday in July 1985. My friend Roger and I could see parishioners spilling out of the Nuestra

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  • How Much AI Is Too Much AI?

    2026-08-18 Tim Holt

    by Tim Holt Recently, I submitted a long-form editorial to El Paso Matters that I thought was worthy of posting. It was about how the

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  • “Time Table”

    2026-08-16 elrichiboy
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  • NY Times — “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States”

    2026-08-15 Rich Wright

    Some yankees from the New York Times compiled a list of “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States.” According to this post

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  • “The Real History of Africa They Never Taught You | Africa’s Great Civilizations”

    2026-08-15 elrichiboy
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  • La Cucaracha

    2026-08-14 Howard Campbell

    by Howard Campbell After walking across the heavily fortified Paso del Norte bridge and ducking through Mexican customs, you arrive at the foot of Juárez

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  • Drones for Them, But Not for Us?

    2026-08-12 Tim Holt

    By Tim Holt The ACLU released a report in March called Drones For Them But Not For Us? Most people will probably see that title

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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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Like you needed a reason

2014-01-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a scientific article that says that smoking pot will protect your liver if you binge drink. Importantly, cannabidiol can

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Your Job Could Be Outsourced to a Machine

2014-01-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This thought provoking article in the The Economist posits that technology could render a large percentage of today’s jobs obsolete.

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Deming Settles Anal Probe Lawsuit

2014-01-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Deming and Hidalgo County have agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was subjected to an anal

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VICE on the DEA-Sinaloa Connection

2014-01-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s VICE blogger Brian Anderson on the revelation that the DEA and Sinaloa Cartel had a cozy symbiotic relationship: Still,

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How Decisions Get Made

2014-01-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

If you want, say, to buy a new phone, there are lots of resources you can turn to. There are

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Al Jazeera: Mexican Official Says CIA Manages Drug Trade

2014-01-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this report from Al Jazeera, U.S. government agencies, including the CIA, “don’t fight drug traffickers,” instead “they try

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