El Chuqueño

Social Engineering Chuco-Style

2025-09-26 Rich Wright

I live in a neighborhood I call Barrio Heights. Barrio Heights is below Rim Road, close to El Paso High. The houses in Barrio Heights

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Community First Coalition Forum on Affordable Housing

2025-09-25 elrichiboy

The Community First Coalition is hosting a forum on the housing challenges facing the local community. Everybody needs housing, and in the current climate, we

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Book Launch: “Juarez | Tales from a Misunderstood City”

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You and the Juarez Walking Tour

2025-09-22 Rich Wright

I’ve been offering Juarez Walking Tours to anyone willing to pay my meager fee for more than 10 years. Over that period, I’ve barely taken

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“The Pretender”

2025-09-21 elrichiboy

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“Europe in the Wake of the Fall of Rome”

2025-09-20 elrichiboy

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Paul Foster is Selling Land in his Campo del Sol Development

2025-09-19 Rich Wright

From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council unanimously approved an amendment to a 2020 incentives agreement to allow for the sale of 45 acres in the

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“The Eyes of Chihuahua”

2025-09-18 Rich Wright

Here’s a story from TexasObserver.org about the Torre Centinela, that surveillance tower going up in downtown Ciudad Juarez that will soon be looking over our

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The Project Jupiter Chronicles: A Charged Countdown to September 19

2025-09-17 Kent Paterson

By Kent Paterson September 19 looms as a fateful day in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. That’s when the Doña Ana County Commission will meet

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El Paso Matter’s Fight for Higher Taxes

2025-09-15 Rich Wright

Two recent articles on ElPasoMatters.com portray El Paso as a low-tax city. Here’s a snippet from one of the pieces: To understand the impact of

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Heath Haussaman on Project Jupiter

2025-09-11 Rich Wright

Here’s veteran journalist Heath Haussaman with a deep dive into the $165 billion Project Jupiter that’s proposed for Sunland Park. ARTICLE SUMMARY:On its face Project

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“The Fat Man”

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“Red String of Fate”

2022-06-03 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment

Evaluating Our Priorities

2022-06-02 Rich Wright Certificates of Obligation, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, City Management, Claudia Lizette Rodriguez, Isabel Salcido, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

They are coming out of the woodwork (and maybe from under rocks) to weigh in on Tommy Gonzalez’ future. From

Luis Aguilar and Jorge Negrete in “Tal Para Cual”

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Tommy Gonzalez Doesn’t Like El Paso

2022-05-30 Rich Wright City Council, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Recently, Tommy Gonzalez applied for a job in Frisco, Texas, despite making more than $400,000 a year here. If he

Gary Cooper in “Cloak and Dagger”

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McKinney Sisters – “Nothing But the Blood”

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“Smog and Mirrors – The Secret Ways the Oil Industry Brainwashes You”

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Willy McGee – “Do You Feel Good”

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People Don’t Like Tommy Gonzalez

2022-05-27 Rich Wright City Council, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

At least the taxpayers don’t like him. He’s been here since 2014, and I haven’t met anyone who tells me

Now That’s a Clean River

2022-05-26 Rich Wright El Paso Water, Slider 6 comments

Good news, everybody. From a May 6, 2022, story on ElPasoTimes.com: El Paso Water completed cleanup on the Rio Grande this

Los Lobos with Cafe Tacvba – “La Venganza de los Pelados”

2022-05-25 elrichiboy Music One comment

Retrovision – El Paso, a Metaphor

2022-05-23 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Media, Slider One comment

This post originally appeared on 30 July 2015. El Paso is like that really nice girl with the shitty boyfriend

“A Street With No Name”

2022-05-22 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Kris Kristofferson and Friends – “Why Me Lord”

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“School Of Assassins”

2022-05-21 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment

David Stout for County Commissioner Precinct 2

2022-05-21 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Elections 2 comments

We’re at war. It’s a class war. We didn’t start it. The richest people in El Paso started it. Over

“Dream of Aces”

2022-05-20 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment

Los Straitjackets – Crime Scene

2022-05-20 elrichiboy Music One comment

Expo-Subasta for Edificio de los Sueños

2022-05-18 elrichiboy Juarez One comment

Downtown Juarez is experiencing a renaissance and it’s not all financed by tax credits and municipal largess for Juarez’ richest

Another Salvo in the War on Taxpayers

2022-05-18 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, City Management, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, MountainStar Sports Group, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

The City of El Paso, the El Paso Chamber of Commerce, and MountainStar Sports group are waging a class war