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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 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 “Notorious NARCOTIC Smuggler” La Nacha: The El Paso Years

    2025-07-31 Bob Chessey

    So, “Who was ‘La Nacha’?” For 50 years “La Nacha” remained a name synonymous with Juarez and opiate trafficking, a woman who rose to become

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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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  • 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 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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  • Citlali Delgado, Artist

    2026-08-11 Rich Wright

    Every artist needs a body of work. One painting, or one song, or one role, on stage or the big screen, won’t lead to fame

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“Four Dead in Five Seconds”

2026-04-25 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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The 1915 Collision of the Iron Cure and the Harrison Narcotic Act in El Paso

2026-04-23 Bob Chessey Law Enforcement, Drugs, History, Slider Leave a comment

Kicking an opiate habit is a bitch. Before the advent of modern medical and pharmaceutical interventions, counseling, and peer support

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Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?

2026-04-22 Rich Wright Cost of Living, El Paso, Slider One comment

You probably heard lately that El Paso is the second best big city in the U.S. in which to live.

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We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice

2026-04-21 Kent Paterson New Mexico, Slider, The Environment 2 comments

Downwinder leader Tina Cordova speaks at the Valle de Oro Community Earth Day event. Seated to Cordova’s immediate left is

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Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”

2026-04-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Slider Leave a comment
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“How Ciudad Juárez Spiralled Into Cartel Madness”

2026-04-18 elrichiboy Slider, Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Now We Know Their Names”

2026-04-17 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, El Paso, Slider, Video Leave a comment
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Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond

2026-04-16 Kent Paterson CRRUA, Data Centers, Project Jupiter, Slider, Sunland Park, Water One comment

By Kent Paterson After a lapse of nearly one year-and-a-half, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) conducted a community meeting

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Paul and Julie Ten Years After

2026-04-13 Rich Wright Juarez Walking Tour, Juarez, Slider 3 comments

On or about 05 October 2016, I took Paul and Julie to Juarez. Paul and Julie were ballroom dancers. Like

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“The Gary Webb Story: CIA, Cocaine, and a Media Assassination”

2026-04-11 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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(Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela

2026-04-09 Rich Wright Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

If you are interested in the Torre Centinela that is almost fully operational in downtown Ciudad Juárez, then you should

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Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

2026-04-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Slider Leave a comment
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NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”

2026-04-03 Rich Wright Fiction, Slider Leave a comment

(Scene: Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon.) Secretary Pete Hegseth: . . . and that, gentlemen, is how

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People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

2026-03-31 Kent Paterson Slider, Data Centers, Meta, Project Jupiter 3 comments

By Kent Paterson Data centers are a burning issue in the Paso del Norte borderland of 2026. Plans to open

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Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

2026-03-22 Oscar J. Martinez El Paso, Ciudad Juárez, Slider 2 comments

by Oscar J. Martinez Given the recent disturbing revelations about Cesar Chávez, it seems certain that the local Border Highway’s

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“Hangover Square”

2026-03-22 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Slider Leave a comment
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“The Rise and Ruin of the Coca-Cola Family”

2026-03-21 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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March Meeting, Reports Flag Paso del Norte Air Pollution Trouble Spots

2026-03-19 Kent Paterson Uncategorized 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Here’s a binational border institution many of you might haven’t heard of-the wordy Joint Advisory Committee for

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“The Scarlet Hour”

2026-03-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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El Paso is Falling

2026-03-13 Rich Wright El Paso, City Council, El Paso Electric Company, El Paso Police Department, El Paso Water, EPISD, Slider 2 comments

The trusted institutions we count on are letting us down. The streets are crumbling. The water utility can’t keep the

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