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  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela

    2026-04-09 elrichiboy

    If you are interested in the Torre Centinela that is almost fully operational in downtown Ciudad Juárez, then you should read this story from RestOfWorld.org.

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  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

    2026-04-05 elrichiboy
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  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”

    2026-04-03 Rich Wright

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

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

    2026-03-31 Kent Paterson

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

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  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

    2026-03-22 Oscar J. Martinez

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

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  • “Hangover Square”

    2026-03-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Rise and Ruin of the Coca-Cola Family”

    2026-03-21 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso is Falling

    2026-03-13 Rich Wright

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

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  • The 13th Anniversary of the Killing of Daniel Saenz

    2026-03-08 Rich Wright

    Today is the 13th anniversary of the day that El Paso Police Department Officer Jose Flores shot and killed the handcuffed prisoner Daniel Saenz in

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  • Lucille Ball in “The Dark Corner”

    2026-03-08 elrichiboy
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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part Two: Preface and Postscript to “Black Sunday”

    2026-03-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson On a recent sunny day, tourists and locals on Puerto Vallarta’s ocean front boardwalk, the Malecon, watched intensely as a Mexican navy

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  • The Biggest Campaign of the Season

    2026-03-02 Rich Wright

    The biggest campaign of this election season isn’t taking place by any candidate on the ballot. The President of the University of Texas at El

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The 9.9% vs. Housing for the Rest of Us

2021-10-23 elrichiboy Inequality, Welcome to Monday 2 comments

Here’s another take on housing and social mobility from the guy who wrote that book about the 9.9 percent. From

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El Paso is a Third World Country

2021-10-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Public Health, Slider, The Environment 4 comments

Since August 15, El Paso has been pouring raw sewage into the Rio Grande. From BorderReport.com: Between 3 million and

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Friday Short – Swing for the Fences

2021-10-22 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Sparks!

2021-10-22 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Vote No on Prop 2

2021-10-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs, TxDOT 6 comments

Did you know that blight was a condition to creating a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone in Texas? From the Texas

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Grandpa’s Cough Medicine – The Murder Chord

2021-10-20 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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PBS: La Frontera with Pati Jinich – Miles from Nowhere

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“Fossil fuel industry gets subsidies of $11m a minute, IMF finds” – The Guardian

2021-10-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Public Private Partnerships, Slider 7 comments

The Guardian says that fossil fuel industries are welfare queens. The fossil fuel industry benefits from subsidies of $11m every

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How Fast is Your Internet?

2021-10-18 elrichiboy Opportunity Costs Leave a comment

I have to assume that if you’re reading this, you have a computer that’s connected to the internet. And fast

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Sunday Matinee – King of the Underworld

2021-10-17 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – United States of Secrets Part 1

2021-10-16 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Five Stars

2021-10-15 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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How the Other 9.9% Live

2021-10-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story from Vox.com about the culture of the top decile: There are some defining characteristics of today’s

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Borderplex Alliance Wins Economic Development Award

2021-10-11 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Economic Development, Slider One comment

From the El Paso Inc.: The Borderplex Alliance has been recognized with an international award for its work on economic

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Sunday Matinee Double Feature – Manhandled (1949), and Manhandled (1924)

2021-10-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Competing Systems of Power in America

2021-10-09 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The County’s Population Growth is Slower Than You Thought

2021-10-08 elrichiboy Fort Bliss, population, Slider Leave a comment

As slow as the County of El Paso’s population is growing, the reality is that it’s growing even slower. Starting

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Friday Short – My Sister and the Prince

2021-10-08 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Induced Demand

2021-10-07 elrichiboy Slider, The Trench, TxDOT One comment

Here’s a story from Bloomberg CityLab about the futility of trying to reduce traffic congestion by widening freeways. “We know

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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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El Chuqueño Lately

  • “The Gary Webb Story: CIA, Cocaine, and a Media Assassination”
  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela
  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”
  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”
  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

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