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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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The Latest Outrage

2022-11-28 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Arena, Veronica Escobar 5 comments

From CBS4Local: As CBS4’s John Purvis reported in a Tough Questions Special Report last week, the federal government’s planned expansion

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Humphrey Bogart in “Dead End”

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The Harmonizing Four – “We’re Crossing Over”

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“Child Warfare”

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City of Dust “Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns, Endangered Architecture, and Hidden History” Wall Calendar

2022-11-20 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

by John Mulhouse It’s almost Thanksgiving and that must mean it’s time for the 2023 City of Dust “Abandoned New

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“Phantom Lady”

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“The JockStrap Raiders”

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Tales from the Tour Bus: Blaze Foley Intro

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Alan Gogoll – “Mulberry Mouse”

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City of Dust – The Albuquerque Rail Yards

2022-11-16 elrichiboy City of Dust, Slider Leave a comment

Train I Ride The Albuquerque Rail Yards are a massive complex sprawling over 27.3 acres and sitting (mostly) idle off

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60 Minutes – “Buses from the Border: New York strained by migrants caught in a broken system”

2022-11-16 elrichiboy Immigration, Slider, Venezuela Leave a comment
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The Half House

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Trish Long talks about the Shanghai Grocery in this piece in the El Paso Times: The Shanghai Grocery was located

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Dave Chappelle Stand-Up Monologue – SNL

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Chris Canales for District 8

2022-11-13 elrichiboy Elections Leave a comment

After careful consideration of the two candidates vying to be our next City Representative for District 8, I have decided

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“The Long Haul”

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The Brandenberger Family – “The Unclouded Day”

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Thank You.

2022-11-13 elrichiboy Elections, Slider 9 comments

Well, the election has come and gone and I’m not on that train. A lot of you have expressed condolences.

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Vice News – “From Texas to New York on a Migrant Bus”

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The Rise of the Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

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“Child of Wood”

2022-11-11 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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