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  • “The Thinking Game”

    2026-08-29 elrichiboy
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  • “World for Ransom”

    2026-08-30 elrichiboy
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  • Instrumenta antiqua stultis antiquis.

    2026-08-27 Tim Holt

    by Tim Holt Here is a little game you can play with your coworkers: try to find a document at your work that is written

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  • Juangabrielisimo in Juarez

    2026-08-26 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright Juan Gabriel is the biggest star to ever come out of Juarez. For Mexican music, Juan Gabriel is Elvis and Prince and

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  • The Data Center Chronicles: The Storms of Jupiter Whip the Summer of ’26

    2026-08-25 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson If the summer monsoon has been a huge letdown this year, then developments around the giant AI data center under construction in

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  • The Future of El Paso | Inspired by True Events

    2026-08-23 Guest Column

    by Andres Powers I. The Ledger Start with what is already true, because prophecy is cheap and the record is not. In 2012 the city

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  • The Restorative Power of Restaurants

    2026-08-21 J. Eugenio Cotera E.

    by Javier E. Cotera The date was a Sunday in July 1985. My friend Roger and I could see parishioners spilling out of the Nuestra

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  • How Much AI Is Too Much AI?

    2026-08-18 Tim Holt

    by Tim Holt Recently, I submitted a long-form editorial to El Paso Matters that I thought was worthy of posting. It was about how the

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  • “Time Table”

    2026-08-16 elrichiboy
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  • NY Times — “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States”

    2026-08-15 Rich Wright

    Some yankees from the New York Times compiled a list of “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States.” According to this post

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  • “The Real History of Africa They Never Taught You | Africa’s Great Civilizations”

    2026-08-15 elrichiboy
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  • La Cucaracha

    2026-08-14 Howard Campbell

    by Howard Campbell After walking across the heavily fortified Paso del Norte bridge and ducking through Mexican customs, you arrive at the foot of Juárez

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  • Drones for Them, But Not for Us?

    2026-08-12 Tim Holt

    By Tim Holt The ACLU released a report in March called Drones For Them But Not For Us? Most people will probably see that title

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“Dull and Dreary”

2023-01-17 elrichiboy El Paso Times Leave a comment

The El Paso Times is editorializing their weather forecast. Today, the Times described the weather as “Dull and Dreary”. Well,

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The New Feudalism

2023-01-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, El Paso Water, Slider, Urban Planning, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

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

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“The History of Rigged Super Bowls”

2023-01-14 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“The Soft-Boiled Detective”

2023-01-13 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard in “The Cat and the Canary”

2023-01-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Bad Friend”

2023-01-07 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Economic Development for the Few

2023-01-07 Rich Wright Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

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

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Did You Feel That Earthquake?

2023-01-03 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Politics, Slider 9 comments

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

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About the Arena

2023-01-03 Rich Wright The Arena, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Economics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider One comment

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

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Retrovision: “How Quickly They Forget”

2023-01-02 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes One comment

This article originally appeared on 2022 August 31. I stumbled across this gem the other day. From the El Paso

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“Somewhere in the Night”

2023-01-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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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 Juarez, History, 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 Mexico, Immigration, 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 Elections, City Council, 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”

2022-12-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Car Thieves vs the Final GlitterBomb 5.0”

2022-12-17 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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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”

2022-12-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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