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”

2025-09-24 elrichiboy

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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”

2025-09-07 elrichiboy

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Credit Where Credit Is Due

2021-04-29 elrichiboy Corrections, Education, Elections, Media, Sam Rodriguez, Self Censorship, Slider One comment

This week I published a post critical of the El Paso Times coverage of an EPISD District 3 candidate. You

A Challenger for La Vero?

2021-04-28 elrichiboy Elections, National Policy, Politics, Slider One comment

This story from TheHill.com: Daniel Marans, a HuffPost reporter who covers the Democratic Party, on Thursday discussed his recent story on

Brand Management Chuco-Style

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Welcome to my Pity Party The Downtown Management District thinks it’s a good idea to have parts of downtown El

Sarah Vaughn – Whatever Lola Wants

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Alternatino – Welcome to America

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Sunday Matinee – Across the Bridge

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Roxy Music – Psalm

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Saturday Matinee – The Anthropocene: The Age of Mankind

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The El Paso Times’ Reporting on Another CREEED EPISD Candidate

2021-04-23 elrichiboy Education, Elections, Media, Politics, Self Censorship, Slider 2 comments

This morning’s El Paso Times featured this report: An El Paso school board candidate confirmed she does not believe masks are effective

Friday Short – The Interview

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Steely Dan – King of the World

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Some Antics

2021-04-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Here’s the City of El Paso’s statement regarding City Council’s decision to issued $93 million of debt not approved by

Alternatino – ICE Responds to All That Negative Press

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Sunday Matinee – The October Man

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Violent Femmes – Jesus Walking on the Water

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Saturday Matinee – Forest Man

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Friday Short – The Clue

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Mexican Pot Is Getting Harder to Sell

2021-04-16 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Marijuana 8 comments

From the AP, via KTSM.com: BADIRAGUATO, Mexico (AP) — For the first time that María can remember, half of her

The Auteurs – New French Girlfriend

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Social Distortion – Story of My Life

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