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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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  • Economic Undevelopment

    2026-02-25 Rich Wright

    According to ElDiario.mx, El Paso lost 750 jobs in the last four months of 2025. Juarez lost 17,000 maquila jobs in all of 2025. That

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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part One: Hurricane Mencho

    2026-02-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Fear, hunger, thirst and uncertainty. That’s what folks in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco lived through on February 22, now undoubtedly one of the

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  • “Where Texas Begins”

    2026-02-21 Rich Wright

    The latest (several years old) tagline from Visit El Paso/the Convention and Visitors Center/Destination El Paso appears to be “Where Texas Begins”. Of course Texas

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  • Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall in “Confidential Agent”

    2026-02-15 elrichiboy
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  • “You’re Fired!”

    2026-02-14 Rich Wright

    Remember when Donald Trump’s tagline was “You’re fired!” One might think that he’d be pulling that old standard out again, what with the clown car

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  • “YEMEN: A Forgotten Earth Where Time Still Breathes”

    2026-02-14 elrichiboy
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  • “Love in a Man’s World”

    2026-02-08 elrichiboy
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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 KFOX Report on Tommy Gonzalez’ Contract

2021-09-23 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Last night KFOX El Paso reported on El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez’ golden parachute. The report highlighted the separation

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Friday Short – Bliss is Orange

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The Effects of Fiscal Profligacy

2021-09-23 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, population, Slider, Taxes One comment

“Why do you keep hitting yourself in the head with that hammer?” “Because it feels so good when I stop.”

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Earth, Wind & Fire – September

2021-09-21 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Consider the Deck Park

2021-09-20 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Trench, TxDOT 11 comments

The latest push from the people who want to build a deck over the freeway is connectivity. Connect those neighborhoods

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Sunday Matinee – 5 Steps to Danger

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Ransomed Bluegrass – I’ll Fly Away

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Saturday Matinee – Inside Mexico’s Most Powerful Drug Cartel

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Justice For Chet

2021-09-18 elrichiboy El Paso Police Department, History, Music, Slider One comment

Today is the second anniversary of the day that blues drummer Chet Woodward was murdered at the streetcar stop by

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