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  • I’ve Got a Secret

    2023-02-01 elrichiboy

    It’s a podcast. You can tune into El Chuqueño presents Almost Live, wherever you get your podcasts, like Spotify, or Apple Music. Check it out.

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  • We Will Not Be Silenced

    2023-01-19 elrichiboy

    It came to my attention yesterday that your favorite website was somehow compromised, and we’re not sending out emails after every post is published. How

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  • Tobacco in Mexico

    2023-01-18 elrichiboy

    Here’s one you didn’t see coming. From the New York Daily News: Mexico now bans smoking in hotels, beaches, parks and all other public spaces

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  • The New Feudalism

    2023-01-17 elrichiboy

    Water rates are going up again, for the eighth year in a row. From the El Paso Times: El Paso Water rates and fees are

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  • Economic Development for the Few

    2023-01-07 Rich Wright

    Some of those arena advocates act like it’s our patriotic duty to support downtown development. “Economic development,” they say. “Fortune 500 companies.” “When you boil

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  • Did You Feel That Earthquake?

    2023-01-03 Rich Wright

    My personal seismograph put the epicenter at City Hall. Damages haven’t been assessed yet, but I’m hoping it’s a lot. El Pasoans can expect to

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  • About the Arena

    2023-01-03 Rich Wright

    Advocates say we need the arena as an engine of economic development. That’s not how economic development works. If you want to increase the wealth

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  • Retrovision: “How Quickly They Forget”

    2023-01-02 Rich Wright

    This article originally appeared on 2022 August 31. I stumbled across this gem the other day. From the El Paso Chamber of Commerce: Recommended Action

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  • The Three Mummies: A New Year’s Ode to Ghost Voices

    2023-01-01 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson They stand on an El Paso street like the shadowy, eerie artifacts of a forgotten ancient civilization. Clumped together in a threesome

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  • Quality of Life Much?

    2022-12-30 Rich Wright

    Woody and Gayle Hunt are El Paso Inc.’s El Pasoans of the year, 2022. Here are couple of things that Mr. Hunt had to say:

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  • The 1930 Running of the Cerveza

    2022-12-22 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey A Tale of Pacing and Endurance Summer’s end in 1930 was proving to be a tough time to own a profitable bar

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  • THE BRIDGE OF STONES: A MIGRANT CHRISTMAS STORY

    2022-12-20 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Carefully treading a crossing of slippery stones strung across the shallow Rio Grande between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, trickles of migrants

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“Somewhere in the Night”

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The Three Mummies: A New Year’s Ode to Ghost Voices

2023-01-01 Kent Paterson Juarez, Mexico, Slider One comment

By Kent Paterson They stand on an El Paso street like the shadowy, eerie artifacts of a forgotten ancient civilization.

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Quality of Life Much?

2022-12-30 Rich Wright Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 5 comments

Woody and Gayle Hunt are El Paso Inc.’s El Pasoans of the year, 2022. Here are couple of things that

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The 1930 Running of the Cerveza

2022-12-22 Bob Chessey History, Juarez, Slider 3 comments

by Bob Chessey A Tale of Pacing and Endurance Summer’s end in 1930 was proving to be a tough time

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THE BRIDGE OF STONES: A MIGRANT CHRISTMAS STORY

2022-12-20 Kent Paterson Immigration, Mexico, Migration, Slider 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Carefully treading a crossing of slippery stones strung across the shallow Rio Grande between Ciudad Juárez and

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A New Day

2022-12-20 Rich Wright City Council, Elections, Slider 2 comments

Three of the four candidates supported by the plutocrats Woody Hunt and Paul Foster lost their runoffs. Does this mean

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Cary Grant in “People Will Talk”

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“Car Thieves vs the Final GlitterBomb 5.0”

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A Question of Eligibility

2022-12-15 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Corruption, Laura D. Prine, Politics, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Is Bettina Olivares eligible to serve as the City Representative for District 8? Here’s the part of the Municipal Code

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“Captain Scarface”

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe – “Up Above My Head”

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“This is Venezuela (2022) – Why 20% of the Population Has Fled”

2022-12-10 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary One comment
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“PROJECT-19”

2022-12-09 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Future of Downtowns

2022-12-09 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Downtown, Slider One comment

The City of El Paso (that is you, the taxpayer) is spending millions, or tens of millions, or hundreds of

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El Paso Police Are Taser Happy and the El Paso Times Doesn’t Want You to Know It

2022-12-08 Rich Wright Chief Greg Allen, City Council, City Management, El Paso Police Department, El Paso Times, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of the El Paso Times: One night in October

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Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Paradine Case”

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The Oak Ridge Boys – “Life’s Railway to Heaven”

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“The Propaganda War Waged Over the Iraq Invasion”

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“The Specter of Nuclear War, Revisited (New Mexico, 2022)”

2022-12-02 elrichiboy Perspectives, Slider Leave a comment

This was written by a girl I get to sleep with sometimes: I’ve spent a lot of time in the

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“The Case of the Missing Puzzle Box”

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