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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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  • “Nightfall”

    2026-01-25 elrichiboy
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  • Ricardo Pepi to Fullham?

    2026-01-25 Rich Wright

    ESPN reports that English Premier League’s Fullham F.C. have reportedly offered Dutch futbol team PSV $38 million for the contract of El Paso/San Elizario native

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  • Masa pa’ la Raza: Taconeta

    2026-01-23 Rich Wright

    For the third year in a row, Taconeta made it to the semi-finals of the James Beard Awards in the category Outstanding Wine and Other

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  • Fritz Lang’s “House by the River”

    2026-01-18 elrichiboy
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  • “The Gilded Age”

    2026-01-17 elrichiboy
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  • An “Unprecedented” Event

    2026-01-13 Rich Wright

    This from ElPasoTimes.com: It could be until mid-week when a boil water notice is lifted and water service is fully returned to normal after a

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Brand El Paso (fixed)

2013-10-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized 9 comments

Mithoff Burton Partners (“where creativity goes to die,” as one commenter put it) were given $300,000 by the City of

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In Defense of the Ballpark

2013-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a video from El Paso Triple A Baseball (I guess) helping you to understand the noble goals MountainStar Sports

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Ortega’s Gambit

2013-10-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

You’ve read that Steve Ortega has moved to quash his deposition, and the attempt to sift his emails relating to

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Alejandro Escovedo at Tricky Falls

2013-10-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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City Slogans

2013-10-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s an article from the Atlantic on new city slogans for 2011. Even the worst is better than It’s All

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Some Thoughts on the Royal Succession

2013-10-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There’s been a lot of chatter about Joyce Wilson’s resignation announcement this week. Here’s how I read it. With Ms.

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Documenting San Antonio’s Barrio Gang History

2013-10-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

At a time when train tracks separate much of the West Side from downtown, when many of the streets were

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Conundrum El Paso

2013-10-09 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Plan El Paso is the City’s general blueprint for “the built environment.” The Plan adopts the principles of New Urbanism,

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Rich People Just Care Less

2013-10-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Turning a blind eye. Giving someone the cold shoulder. Looking down on people. Seeing right through them. These metaphors for

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Love and Poison

2013-10-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My wife really loves me.  Even though we fight a lot, yesterday I was feeling a little hungover, and she

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Am I drunk again, or am I still drunk?

2013-09-25 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Let’s dredge up a quote from Saturday’s story in El Paso’s English language daily: MountainStar said it wants to have

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What the $10 million announcement really meant

2013-09-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m just speculating here.  But I think the truth lies behind this statement, as quoted from the El Paso Times:

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Monday Morning’s Quarterback

2013-09-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

It’s easy to get mad when the ballpark costs leap another ten million dollars.  It’s easy to point fingers when

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The Gift That Keeps on Giving

2013-09-21 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Media, Politics 5 comments

Isn’t anyone from Mountain Star Sports Group interested in a little crisis management?  Don’t they realize that they’re hemorrhaging? Today

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Sales are Down

2013-09-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’ve been out of town for a couple nearly four months, and lately when I venture out in El Paso,

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More Email Drama

2013-09-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There’s this story in the El Paso Times about the City Attorney trying to quash a demand for depositions from

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A Solution in Search of a Problem

2013-09-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There’s an interesting story by David Crowder in this week’s El Paso Inc. It seems that the City proposed an

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Stop the bleeding

2013-09-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This morning the El Paso Times noticed that property taxes in El Paso are escalating at an undesirable rate.  Not

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The Last Great Place

2013-09-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

  They’re aren’t a lot of decent public spaces left for the common man.  If you squint, the future looks

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It’s All Better

2013-08-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I got a couple of reports from the meeting last Thursday of the El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau Strategic

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