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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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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

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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”

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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

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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

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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

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The Isaacs – Daniel Prayed

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It’s Them Versus Us

2021-09-24 elrichiboy Chief Greg Allen, El Paso Police Department, Law Enforcement, Slider 5 comments

On September 22, El Paso Matters published an article about a couple of federal judges rulings in court cases involving

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The People Speak!

  • Richard Moore on People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
  • Jessamyn C Young on People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
  • Aroop Mangalik on People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
  • Sinister Publications on Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway
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  • Talli Nauman on March Meeting, Reports Flag Paso del Norte Air Pollution Trouble Spots
  • F.A. Sommerfeld on El Paso is Falling
  • Andre on March Meeting, Reports Flag Paso del Norte Air Pollution Trouble Spots
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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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