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  • Earl Grant “Autumn Leaves”

    2025-07-18 elrichiboy
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  • La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez

    2025-07-17 Rich Wright

    You’d have to be older than I am to remember La Fiesta in downtown Juarez, and I’m pretty old. La Fiesta used to be a

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  • Roaming Free in Mexico: How Will the Wolf Survive?

    2025-07-15 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson A Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) of undetermined sex was captured on camera roaming the back country of the Sierra Madre

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  • Beasts of Burden

    2025-07-14 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright He wears a pistol on his ankle and carries a condom in his billfold. He never uses either one. The pistol weighs

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  • The Great Trumpini

    2025-07-13 Rich Wright

    From a July 12, 2025 article at APNews.com:  President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he’s levying tariffs of 30% against the European Union and Mexico starting Aug. 1, a

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  • July 12 Border Policy Protest Planned for Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

    2025-07-09 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Under the slogan “Humanize Don’t Militarize,” New Mexico and Texas activists intend to put their constitutional rights into practice this coming Saturday,

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  • Dystopia, USA

    2025-07-08 Rich Wright

    Imagine masked U.S. government agents kidnapping people off the street and sending them to concentration camps. Dystopian fiction? Nah. It’s happening today, in these United

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  • Immigration and Detention Witness

    2025-07-07 Xavier Miranda

    by Xavier Miranda I spent the morning of Friday, June 20,  at the U. S. Courthouse in downtown El Paso, TX observing the Immigration Court

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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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What Gives?

2022-07-13 Rich Wright Cost of Living, How to Live in El Paso, Slider 2 comments

Sunday I went to Cloudcroft. The high temperature was 72. The low was 58. You should try it. Nowhere on

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“El Pecado de Ser Pobre”

2022-07-12 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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“Explaining the Pandemic to my Past Self”

2022-07-12 elrichiboy Explaining the Pandemic, Video Leave a comment
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Hard Times

2022-07-12 Rich Wright El Paso Times, Media, Slider One comment

The El Paso Times didn’t come out with a print edition on the 4th of July. They stopped printing a

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“The Second Woman”

2022-07-10 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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Bill Monroe – “This World is Not My Home”

2022-07-10 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“Undercover in Guyana: Exposing Chinese Business in South America”

2022-07-09 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Explaining the Pandemic to my Past Self Part 7”

2022-07-08 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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“Black Box”

2022-07-08 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Cary Westin’s Lucrative Retirement

2022-07-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 11 comments

You’ll remember that back in May, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin retired from his position as Deputy City Manager for the

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Trouble in ChucoTown

2022-07-07 Rich Wright City Management, Gensler, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Strategic Plan, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

The trouble with City Government is that the City Manager thinks that his job is to protect and promote the

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“Middle of Nowhere: New Mexico’s Multi-Million Dollar Blunder”

2022-07-07 elrichiboy Heritage Tourism, Slider, Video 2 comments
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Economic Indicators

2022-07-06 Rich Wright Downtown, Downtown Management District, Economic Development, Slider 3 comments

The El Paso Times reports that the Fallas Department Store in DWNTWN is closing: One of Downtown El Paso’s largest

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I Love You Guys

2022-07-05 elrichiboy Support El Chuqueño Leave a comment

Or is it gueys? Thank you for reading El Chuqueño. I am blessed, as are we all. But just because

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“Why Roads ALWAYS Fill Up, No Matter How Much We Widen Them”

2022-07-04 elrichiboy Deck Park, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 4 comments
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50 Years of “Women Make Movies”

2022-07-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

From Ariel Daugherty: This year I am celebrating Women Make Movies’, Inc. 50th anniversary, In 1972 I was one of

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“The Lone Wolf in Mexico”

2022-07-03 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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7th Annual Books and Raspas Giveaway at Jalisco Cafe

2022-07-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

From Hector (via Rick Melendrez) at the Jalisco: Free Books & Raspa for the entire family! FREE American flags to

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Rent a Bullring

2022-07-02 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Are you looking for a place to host your next bullfight? The banner on the Alberto Balderas Plaza de Toros

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“The Day Police Dropped a Bomb on Philadelphia”

2022-07-02 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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