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  • “The Subtle Art of Losing Yourself”

    2026-09-05 elrichiboy
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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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  • NY Times — “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States” Updated

    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 Sausage Shop Again

    2026-09-04 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright I told you once, but maybe you just won’t listen. The Sausage Shop has the best pork sausage in town. Italian, hot

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  • Part One | The Secret History of Francisco “Pancho” Montes and the Kentucky Bar in Juarez

    2026-09-03 J. Eugenio Cotera E.

    by J. Eugenio Cotera E. Why the Kentucky Bar in Juarez Doesn’t Need to Have Opened in 1920 I first met Don Pancho Montes, owner

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  • Yes, You Own It. No, You Can’t See It.

    2026-09-02 Tim Holt

    by Tim Holt Imagine taking a trip to the El Paso Zoo and, instead of seeing all of the animals that live there, you are

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  • “The Thinking Game”

    2026-08-29 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 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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Deadspin on Chihuahuas

2013-10-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Two-word team names are minor league baseball’s bread and butter, and while the Desert Gators and Sun Dogs sound like

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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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