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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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  • “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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Music Under the Influence

2012-08-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Have y’all been to Music Under the Stars lately? Of course you haven’t, because they’re not letting you bring your

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What if the baseball team sucks?

2012-07-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

What if the team sucks? Because (spoiler alert), they do. (read more)

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Strike One!

2012-07-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m sure they mean well, those private investors and city politicians who want to build a baseball stadium in downtown

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Seven a.m.

2012-07-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I hate vodka. I hate the icepick headaches that are the signature feature of vodka hangovers. I hate not knowing

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Mexican kidnap cops caught on video

2012-06-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story about some policia in Jalisco, barging into a hotel and picking up three men who were later

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Dancin’ Boots

2012-06-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I really love your hair, not many women can pull that off, she says. I smile and thank her, my

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American Exceptionalism?

2012-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You do not have to believe in the superiority of your country over others to love your country. The globalization

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Cartel rumors or brain tumors?

2012-06-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story comes to us from the Arizone Republic via Molly Malloy at Frontera List. “Although the grisly deaths were

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The 16th District from 20,000 feet

2012-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Economist wrote about the 16th Congressional District of Texas primary campaign between Beto O’Rourke and Silvestre Reyes. While they

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El Clausurado

Trouble in Paradise

2012-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

  Last week I went to Juarez to see which bars were being closed. (read more)

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Never let a crisis go to waste

2012-04-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The building that burned down on a Friday in April was not particularly important, despite the gnashing of teeth over

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In Defense of Flea Markets

2012-04-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

  Admittedly, they could have come up with a better name for the flea market. Over the past decade, various

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