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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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  • The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises

    2025-10-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Amid the landscape of yucca and creosote plants, artificial intelligence-driven Project Stargate took shape this week just a tad up the road from

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  • Diminishing El Paso

    2025-10-06 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue to see little to moderate

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  • “Highway Dragnet”

    2025-10-05 elrichiboy
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  • “The 1916 [Irish] Rising of Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”

    2025-10-04 elrichiboy
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  • Ouch!

    2025-10-03 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times delivered its mandated circulation report on page 5A of Thursday’s dead tree edition, and it’s not pretty. On July 25, 2025,

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  • Juarez’ 2025 Bullfighting Season

    2025-10-01 Rich Wright

    While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at 8pm at the Alberto Balderas

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  • The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown

    2025-09-30 Rich Wright

    Downtown El Paso is already barely accessible. What effect will 5 years of freeway and deck park construction have on it? All those businesses who

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  • “Park Plaza 605”

    2025-09-28 elrichiboy
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  • 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”

    2025-09-24 elrichiboy
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Eventually You Run Out of Other People’s Money

2021-10-07 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

In this illuminating story from Monica Ortiz Uribe and the El Paso Times, headlined Texas tax burden is heaviest on

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Retrovision: The Local Economy is Booming. For Contractors.

2021-10-06 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider Leave a comment

This story originally appeared on 7 August 2017. Good news, sports fans. The El Paso economy is growing, according to

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Ray Davies – 20th Century Man

2021-10-06 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Andrew Yang and Hubris Syndrome

2021-10-06 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

From Politico.com, here’s former presidential candidate Andrew Yang talking about the psychological effects of running for president: The historian Henry

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“This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy”

2021-10-05 elrichiboy Media Leave a comment
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The Con Man Who Ruined Portugal

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Something’s Rotten in Chucotown

2021-10-04 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Isabel Salcido, Sam Rodriguez, Slider 3 comments

Dr. Max Grossman and Brutus at El Paso Speak did the heavy lifting for this one. You remember the $413

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Sunday Matinee – The Enforcer

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Mark Farner – Judgement Day Blues

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Saturday Matinee – A Secret Look at a Mexican Cartel’s Low-Tech Fentanyl Factory

2021-10-02 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Life Choices

2021-10-02 elrichiboy ballpark, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Downtown Management District, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

Did you go to college? Have you/are you raising kids? Have you ever had a job? Can you imagine doing

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Cristina Vane – Travelin’ Blues

2021-10-01 elrichiboy Music 2 comments
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“I Was Scared.”

2021-10-01 elrichiboy City Management, El Paso Police Department, Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

Things are not going well for the City of El Paso in a deadly force lawsuit filed by the family

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Friday Short – Spaniard

2021-10-01 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Bamboozlers and the Bamboozled

2021-09-30 elrichiboy MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT 4 comments

An alert reader sent me to this story in New Mexico In Depth: Albuquerque voters will decide in November whether

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Climate Town – Fast Fashion is Hot Garbage

2021-09-30 elrichiboy Climate Town, Video One comment
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El Paso’s Failed Economic Development

2021-09-28 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Slider 10 comments

Remember when El Chuqueño speculated that the recent shakeup in the City’s Economic Development Department might be because the proposed

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Where are the Whistleblowers?

2021-09-28 elrichiboy City Management, Corruption, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

When City Manager Tommy Gonzalez leaves office, he’ll float away on his golden parachute. The rest of the six-figure carpetbaggers

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Sunday Matinee – That Uncertain Feeling

2021-09-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The Isaacs – Daniel Prayed

2021-09-26 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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