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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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  • 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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Are They Still Going to Fix Tickets?

2020-12-09 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Corruption, Law Enforcement, Slider 2 comments

I guess you heard that we’ve got a new District Attorney. She takes office in January. She’s already made plans

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Why Aren’t Masks Free?

2020-12-09 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Politics, Slider 4 comments

If the single most effective thing we can do to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus is for everybody to

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The King of Mesa Street: The Life and Death of a Border Bluesman, Part 3

2020-12-08 Kent Paterson Local Heroes, Music, Slider 4 comments

This is the last part of a three part series. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here.

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Joe T. Hodo — Por un México más Fifi

2020-12-08 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo One comment
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Cooking the Books?

2020-12-08 elrichiboy City Management, Coronavirus, Elections, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s another story from the people’s English language daily: El Paso County has officially surpassed the grim milestone of 1,000 COVID-19-related

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El Paso’s Fourth Tit

2020-12-07 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Elections, Ethics, Media, Slider 9 comments

I reckon the local oligarchs really got their hooks into the El Paso Times. Yesterday the El Paso Times had

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Secrets of Horse Trading

2020-12-06 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Elections, Politics, Quarantine, Slider 2 comments

I’ve always said that if you’re going to sell a blind horse, the first thing you tell the mark is

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Sunday Matinee — Portrait in Black

2020-12-06 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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RetroVision: Beisbol been very very good to me

2020-12-05 elrichiboy ballpark, Retrovision, Slider 2 comments

This post originally appeared way back on 21 May 2020. Minor league baseball is up against the wall, and it’s

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Junior Brown — Highway Patrol

2020-12-05 elrichiboy Hot Hits, Music One comment
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Free Antibody Testing

2020-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Was that just a cold you had a couple of months ago, or were you one of the lucky ones

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Saturday Documentary: Four Horsemen

2020-12-05 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Video Leave a comment
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Kuparilinna — Tuulee

2020-12-04 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Friday Short: Talk to Me

2020-12-04 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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How Do You Get Covid at Walmart?

2020-12-04 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Hot Hits, Media, Quarantine, Slider One comment

Is it available in Menswear, between the Rustler jeans and the Hanes underwear? Are unmasked infecteds coughing on the tomatoes?

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Joe T. Hodo: Minas…¡Sí! Ruinas…¡No!

2020-12-04 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo, Video Leave a comment
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The King of Mesa Street: The Life and Death of a Border Bluesman, Part 2

2020-12-03 Kent Paterson Local Heroes, Music, Slider 6 comments

by Kent Paterson This is Part 2 of a three part series. You can read Part 1 here. Days of

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Their Present is Our Future

2020-12-03 elrichiboy Economic Development, Education, Hot Hits, Juarez, Slider 4 comments

Across the river from UTEP, Colonia Felipe Angeles is poor. And it’s not even the poorest neighborhood in Juarez. Colonia

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The Breeders: Cannonball

2020-12-02 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Dark Money

2020-12-02 elrichiboy Elections, Ethics, Slider, The "Progressives" 4 comments

Many people were upset by that anonymous non-political political mailer that went out before the general election. But I suspect

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