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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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  • 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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Joe T. Hodo – Igualdad Para Explotar

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Things People from Albuquerque Say

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But it could be El Paso.

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Sunday Matinee – Alfred Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent

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Saturday Matinee – Sisters of the Blood

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Janis Joplin – Piece of My Heart

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Friday Short – Miscreant

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Leonard Cohen – Dance Me to the End of Love

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El Paso, (Temporary) Home of the Carpetbaggers

2021-02-10 elrichiboy City Management, Letters to the Editor, Media, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

You know why there’s so little crime in El Paso? Because we all live here. We’re not going anywhere. You

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How to Live in El Paso – Franklin Mountains State Park

2021-02-08 elrichiboy Coronavirus, How to Live in El Paso, Quarantine, Slider, What to Do 5 comments

The pandemic made some winners. Amazon. Best Buy. FedEx, and UPS. Locally, Crazy Cat. People wondered whatever happened to that

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Retrovision: Is the City’s Strategic Plan Working for You?

2021-02-07 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Downtown, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

This post originally appeared on 21 February 2020. In 2012, the City of El Paso began implementing a strategic plan

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Sunday Matinee – Too Late For Tears

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Williamson Branch – Walking in the Spirit

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Friday Short – Something Like Loneliness

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The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Devils Look Like Angels

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How To Cripple an Economy

2021-02-04 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

Economies are delicate ecosystems that develop over time. Agent Orange, or napalm, or diesel fuel might kill a garden, but

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Retrovision: The Lies they Tell us

2021-02-02 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

This post originally appeared on 27 April 2020. Tomorrow the El Paso City Council will vote on a measure to

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Leonard Cohen – Winter Lady

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ABC-7 Xtra on the Downtown Historic District

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Max Grossman and Richard Dayoub

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Oscar Leeser Has a Mandate

2021-02-01 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Elections, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Oscar Leeser won the election by a 4 to 1 margin. That’s more than a little bit. That’s a landslide.

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Sunday Matinee – Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers

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