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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Sunday Matinee – Shoot to Kill

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” Billionaire Philanthropy is a ‘PR Scam’ “

2021-02-28 elrichiboy Slider, Taxes, The Economy 2 comments

Here’s an interesting take from the CEO who raised his employees base annual pay to $70,000 a year. The CEO

Solomon Burke – Since I Met You Jesus

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Plastic Recycling is an Actual Scam

2021-02-26 elrichiboy Public Health, The Environment One comment

Reduce. Reuse. Refuse to buy any more plastic.

Friday Short – Miro

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Community Forum for EPISD Board of Trustees Candidates

2021-02-26 elrichiboy Education, Elections One comment

This came in from Xavier Miranda: We would like to cordially invite you to participate at our Community Forum for

Tim Timebomb and Friends – She’s Drunk All The Time

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Violent Femmes – Gone Daddy Gone

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The American Dreamer

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Here’s a story in New Yorker about the life of a successful Dreamer and the sacrifices her parents made. The

Tom Waits – God’s Away On Business

2021-02-23 elrichiboy Music One comment

City of Dust – Pearce, Arizona

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Getting on the Ghost Town Trail Pearce, Arizona marks the beginning of the Ghost Town Trail. Start heading southwest out

Agenda Review 15 February 202i Recap

2021-02-23 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Quality of Life Projects, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Here’s the video of the 15 February 2021 El Paso City Council Agenda Review meeting. I watched (most of) it

Charlie Crockett – Lesson in Depression

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Smoking Time Jazz Club – Percolatin’ Blues

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Some Lawyers are Sleazebags

2021-02-21 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Downtown Historic District, Slider 4 comments

There is a horrific story in this week’s El Paso Inc., about an older Las Cruces woman who was essentially

Sunday Matinee – Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot

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The Jubilaires – Noah

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Willi Carlisle – Angels

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Tom Petty – Free Fallin’

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Armed Thugs Attack Veteran at El Paso V.A.

2021-02-20 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, News, Slider 7 comments

El Paso is in the national spotlight again. Again, it’s for all the wrong reasons. From Forbes.com: Shortly after he