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  • Watching the Watchers

    2025-07-02 Rich Wright

    I told you about the Torre Centinela that’s going up in downtown Juarez. Well, Juarez isn’t the only city in Mexico with a Sentinel System.

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  • EPEC’s Rate Increase

    2025-06-30 Rich Wright

    In this ElPasoMatters.com post, Diego Mendoza-Myers writes about EPEC’s plans to build out its system and what that means for EPEC’s customers. The El Paso

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  • “Intrigue”

    2025-06-29 elrichiboy
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  • “Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

    2025-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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  • “The Spider”

    2025-06-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

    2025-06-21 elrichiboy
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  • “The First Livestreamed Genocide”

    2025-06-21 Rich Wright

    From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves.

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  • I Don’t Like Bullies

    2025-06-20 Rich Wright

    On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not bullies anymore.” Wait a minute.

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  • Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

    2025-06-18 Rich Wright

    Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision to eliminate it. From KVIA.com:

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  • STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso

    2025-06-16 Paul Dickerson

    by Paul Dickerson This morning, I was crossing the Puente Paso del Norte back to El Paso after running a pressing errand in Ciudad Juárez.

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  • “Outside the Law”

    2025-06-15 elrichiboy
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“Fresh Guacamole by PES”

2023-02-17 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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More Blood From a Turnip

2023-02-15 Rich Wright El Paso Water, Slider, Taxes One comment

You probably got a letter from El Paso Water last week. The letter announced a new fee that our municipally-owned

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The City’s “Slush Fund”

2023-02-15 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Karla Nieman, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

by Max Grossman If you pay a monthly water bill like I do, you will notice a tax levied by

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Economic Development?

2023-02-14 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Everybody’s talking about all the Economic Development taking place downtown. Here, for instance, is that nice lady who has taken

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A Cruel Joke

2023-02-14 elrichiboy Juarez, Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

Mexico has come out with some new banknotes. The 500 peso note is blue. It has a picture of Benito

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New Chief, Same as the Old Chief

2023-02-13 Rich Wright City Management, El Paso Police Department, Karla Nieman, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

The City of El Paso has appointed an EPPD veteran as acting Police Chief. From the El Paso Times: City

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Robert Reich — “The Stadium Scam”

2023-02-13 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Opportunity Costs, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Robert Reich takes on the billionaires in this piece on his website. Ever notice how there never seems to be

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“The Crooked Way”

2023-02-12 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The Problem With TIRZs

2023-02-10 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Part of the reason that property taxes are so high in the City of El Paso is because not everyone

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El Chuqueño Presents Almost Live for 2/8/23

2023-02-09 elrichiboy Almost Live!, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s the latest from the El Chuqueño podcast, Almost Live, with some talk about the AirBnB ordinance, and a brief

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This Is A Test

2023-02-07 elrichiboy Support El Chuqueño 4 comments

I upgraded my email sender, and I’m hoping that now all y’all that have signed up for emails will get

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“People Do Bad Things”

2023-02-03 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Delta Bombers – “Hey You Know You Wanna’

2023-02-02 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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I’ve Got a Secret

2023-02-01 elrichiboy Almost Live!, Slider Leave a comment

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

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“Has humanity passed its zenith?”

2023-01-28 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Sympathy for the Dealer”

2023-01-27 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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“Killing Kelly”

2023-01-21 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Signal Dark”

2023-01-20 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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We Will Not Be Silenced

2023-01-19 elrichiboy Slider, Support El Chuqueño Leave a comment

It came to my attention yesterday that your favorite website was somehow compromised, and we’re not sending out emails after

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Tobacco in Mexico

2023-01-18 elrichiboy Juarez, Mexico, Slider 2 comments

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

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