Skip to content

El Chuqueño

The dog barks, and the caravan moves on.

  • Home
El Chuqueño
  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”

    2026-07-31 anonymous

    Shouts and Murmurs On July 30, El Paso Electric sent out an email to its customers, with the subject line “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained.”

    Continue reading
  • John Prine – “I Remember Everything”

    2026-07-30 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • Another Actor Suddenly Exits the Doña Ana County Political Stage

    2026-07-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Government in Doña Ana County is in turmoil. The shakeups continued this week as the Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners terminated

    Continue reading
  • How Government Works

    2026-07-22 Rich Wright

    Some people are talking a lot about the evils of socialism these days. None of the other isms are pure gold, either. Capitalism. Populism. Communism.

    Continue reading
  • “The Great Depression – America’s Biggest Economic Crisis”

    2026-07-18 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • “The Merry Gentlemen”

    2026-07-12 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • “The Siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC): How Archimedes Stopped Rome”

    2026-07-11 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • “Jigsaw”

    2026-07-05 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • Pay Raises for Everybody (But Not for You)

    2026-07-02 Rich Wright

    Our elected officials at the City (the Mayor and City Representatives) are getting 15% pay raises this year. The people at the City working for

    Continue reading
  • “Guilty Bystander”

    2026-06-28 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls”

    2026-06-27 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • F. E. Curry And Fate’s Vagary

    2026-06-25 Bob Chessey

    The 1923 trial of F. E. Curry is a tale of a lawman who, from performing official duties, became labeled a criminal and exemplifies the

    Continue reading

Retrovision: The Effects of Corruption

2020-11-16 elrichiboy City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 28 March 2019. Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in

Continue reading

Sunday Matinee: Shockproof

2020-11-15 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
Continue reading

Retrovision: Dee Margo’s Task Force

2020-11-14 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider One comment

This post originally appeared on 23 April 2020. Good news, everybody. Sure, people are dying, and the economy’s in the

Continue reading

Saturday Documentary: Secrets of the Tribe

2020-11-14 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary One comment
Continue reading

Words and Their Meanings

2020-11-13 elrichiboy Coronavirus, City Management, Karla Nieman, Liar Liar, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

El Paso City Attorney Karla Nieman had a birthday party for her daughter, in apparent contravention of the order against

Continue reading

Friday Short: Among Us

2020-11-13 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment

Based on the online role playing game.

Continue reading

Daddy and Daddy Are Fighting

2020-11-13 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Mayor Dee Margo and County Judge Ricardo Samaniego are battling it out over local government’s response to El Paso’s soaring

Continue reading

Where’s Susie?

2020-11-12 elrichiboy The "Progressives", Slider 7 comments

From this week’s El Paso Inc.: The woman who has led El Paso’s PBS TV station for six years has

Continue reading

Sleaford Mods: Second

2020-11-12 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
Continue reading

What Is CooL?

2020-11-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Borderplex Alliance, Economic Development, Slider 3 comments

For marketers, cool is the holy grail. Mostly, marketers find cool after it’s been discovered and try to monetize it,

Continue reading

Manu Chao: Clandestino

2020-11-10 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
Continue reading

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

Continue reading

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

2020-11-09 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
Continue reading

The Government and the Governed

2020-11-09 Rich Wright Economic Development, City Council, City Management, 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

Continue reading

Sunday Matinee: Raw Deal

2020-11-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
Continue reading

Saturday Documentary: A Bloody Week in Ciudad Juarez: A cartel killer tells All

2020-11-07 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
Continue reading

Friday Short: The Replacement

2020-11-06 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
Continue reading

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,

Continue reading

The Offspring: Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)

2020-11-03 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
Continue reading

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

Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 84 85 86 87 88 … 202 Next Posts»

A Buck a Month

Come on. If everyone who read El Chuqueño donated just a dollar a month, I'd have a few more dollars. Make a difference. Invest in the alternative narrative, and help a brother out.

The People Speak!

  • John G. Dungan on Data centers, school closures and sprawl are a signal that El Paso needs a new civic vision
  • Penny Hollenbach on City of Dust: Vaughn, New Mexico
  • Penny Hollenbach on City of Dust: Vaughn, New Mexico
  • Andre on Another Actor Suddenly Exits the Doña Ana County Political Stage
  • KR on Golden Cobwebs from the Vault: El Paso’s Aborted Towers
  • elrichiboy on “Guilty Bystander”
  • Rudy Gonzales on City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
  • elrichiboy on You Can Pay When You’re Dead
  • randy on City of Dust: Contreras, New Mexico
  • eghsdtbht on You Can Pay When You’re Dead

El Chuqueño Lately

  • “Operation Condor: The CIA’s Dictator Network”
  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”
  • Data centers, school closures and sprawl are a signal that El Paso needs a new civic vision
  • John Prine – “I Remember Everything”
  • “The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry”

Stuff we talk about