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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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Manu Chao: Clandestino

2020-11-10 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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A Failure of Government

2020-11-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

Pizza king J. Kirk Robison penned a Letter to the Editor in Sunday’s Sun Shopper El Paso Times. It is

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Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats: S.O.B

2020-11-09 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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The Government and the Governed

2020-11-09 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 15 comments

El Paso is culturally unique. There is no other place in the world like El Paso. The U.S. Census Bureau’s

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Sunday Matinee: Raw Deal

2020-11-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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Saturday Documentary: A Bloody Week in Ciudad Juarez: A cartel killer tells All

2020-11-07 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short: The Replacement

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City of Dust: Cuchillo, New Mexico

2020-11-04 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

By the Wayside: Cuchillo, New Mexico Not far from Truth or Consequences, a (longish) stone’s throw from I-25, is Cuchillo,

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The Offspring: Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)

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Is Mayor Margo Holding Walking Quorums?

2020-11-03 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Joyce Wilson, Slider One comment

Former city staffer and current District 2 candidate Judy Gutierrez had some revealing things to say in this story in

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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: Why Me?

2020-11-02 elrichiboy Music, Uncategorized 3 comments
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El Paso, Covid Crossroads

2020-11-02 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Slider 3 comments

True story.* We were driving back from Big Bend, and everyone else in the car was asleep. So I decided

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Steinbeck Says

2020-11-02 elrichiboy John Steinbeck, Quotes One comment

“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ’cause he feels

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Sunday Matinee: Swing!

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What Do You Reckon?

2020-11-01 elrichiboy City Management, Elections, Ethics, Sam Rodriguez, Slider 3 comments

Today the El Paso Times published a guest column from City Engineer Sam Rodriguez. A cursory scan reveals that is

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The City’s Non-Political Political Ad

2020-10-31 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections, Henry Rivera, Sam Rodriguez, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

City Engineer Sam Rodriguez has an ad in this week’s El Paso Inc. Yup. You read that right. City Engineer

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Hey Beto

2020-10-31 elrichiboy Politics 5 comments

Which one of your brilliant political advisors decided it would be a good idea to hammer voters incessantly into the

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Saturday Documentary: The Man Who Saved the World

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Pearl Clutching as a Political Strategy

2020-10-31 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Politics, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

The old. The sick. And some other group, harder to define. Maybe you’re part of that other group. Maybe you’re

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The Hot Sardines: Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen

2020-10-30 elrichiboy Music One comment
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