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  • El Paso Matters to the Rescue

    2026-08-07 Rich Wright

    From ElPasoMatters.org: Between 2015 and 2025, the number of El Pasoans under age 65 grew by fewer than 4,000. The number of those 65 and

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  • The Michigan Earthquake: Did Data Centers Clinch Al-Sayed’s Primary Victory?

    2026-08-05 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Outspent 11 to 1 by incumbent Congresswoman Haley Stevens, Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed’s August 4 win in the Michigan Democratic primary for the

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  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”

    2026-07-31 Vanessa Johnson

    Shouts and Murmurs On July 30, El Paso Electric sent out an email to its customers, with the subject line “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained.”

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  • Another Actor Suddenly Exits the Doña Ana County Political Stage

    2026-07-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Government in Doña Ana County is in turmoil. The shakeups continued this week as the Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners terminated

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  • Data centers, school closures and sprawl are a signal that El Paso needs a new civic vision

    2026-07-30 Guest Column

    By Dylan Corbett, Special to El Paso Matters. Our city stands at a turning point. Schools are closing. Young people are leaving. The global economy

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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”

    2026-08-02 elrichiboy
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  • John Prine – “I Remember Everything”

    2026-07-30 elrichiboy
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  • How Government Works

    2026-07-22 Rich Wright

    Some people are talking a lot about the evils of socialism these days. None of the other isms are pure gold, either. Capitalism. Populism. Communism.

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  • “The Great Depression – America’s Biggest Economic Crisis”

    2026-07-18 elrichiboy
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  • “The Merry Gentlemen”

    2026-07-12 elrichiboy
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  • “The Siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC): How Archimedes Stopped Rome”

    2026-07-11 elrichiboy
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  • “Jigsaw”

    2026-07-05 elrichiboy
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  • Pay Raises for Everybody (But Not for You)

    2026-07-02 Rich Wright

    Our elected officials at the City (the Mayor and City Representatives) are getting 15% pay raises this year. The people at the City working for

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“There’s nothing to do here.”

2024-07-10 Rich Wright Economic Development, ballpark, Opportunity Costs, Slider, Taxes One comment

by Rich Wright The world is getting smaller. Okay, not really, but it seems like it. Computer algorithms keep pushing

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PART 3 BIG KID’S PALACE- “The Joy Spot of C. Juarez, Mexico.”

2024-07-08 Bob Chessey History, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

In early March 1924 an announcement by the US government rattled and jarred the profit margins of the tourist centered

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“Fort Algiers”

2024-07-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 2 comments
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Ava Gardner and George Raft in “Whistle Stop”

2024-06-30 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Julian Assange: the Price of Truth”

2024-06-29 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Snow Lake, New Mexico

2024-06-28 Rich Wright Travel, Slider Leave a comment

by Rich Wright 25 June 2024 — There’s no one up here but us and the hosts, and we all

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Jack Palance and Ida Lupino in “The Big Knife”

2024-06-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Otto Preminger’s “Fallen Angel”

2024-06-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Once I Was a Champion”

2024-06-15 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“El Querreque”

2024-06-14 elrichiboy Music, History Leave a comment

Here’s a link to a audio interview that frequent El Chuqueño contributor Kent Paterson recorded for KUNM. Vicente Bautista is

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The Big Kid in Juarez, Part 2

2024-06-13 Bob Chessey Slider, History, Juarez Leave a comment

You can read Part 1 here. by Bob Chessey Part Two: DODGING PROHIBITION In mid-January of 1900 23-year-old Harry Shipley

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Adios, You Lying Lame Duck Carpetbagger

2024-06-11 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 5 comments

The word on the street is that lame duck carpetbagger Andrea Hutchins of the El Paso Chamber has organized letters

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A lower case “d” Democrat

2024-06-10 Xavier Miranda Opinion, Politics, Slider 3 comments

by Xavier Miranda The perils of a second Trump presidency is acknowledged and certainly not disputed.  However, the rationale for

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“Guilty Bystander”

2024-06-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Men Who Stole the World (and got away with it)”

2024-06-08 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Mexico’s President Elect and the Time of Women

2024-06-06 Kent Paterson Mexico, Juarez, Politics, Slider 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Appropriately dubbed the “Time of Women,” the 2024 Mexican elections ushered in the first woman elected as

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Arena Tours are Dinosaurs

2024-06-03 Rich Wright Heather Wilson, Slider, UTEP 2 comments

Here’s a column from GQ.com titled Artists Are Canceling Arena Tours Right and Left. Maybe They Shouldn’t Have Been Playing

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“1984”

2024-06-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Black Market Organs”

2024-06-01 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Honoring the Mexican Workers Who Saved the United States

2024-05-29 Kent Paterson History, Slider 2 comments

By Kent Paterson For the first time in 60 years, Sebastián Corral touched the earth of Rio Vista Farm in

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  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”

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