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  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela

    2026-04-09 elrichiboy

    If you are interested in the Torre Centinela that is almost fully operational in downtown Ciudad Juárez, then you should read this story from RestOfWorld.org.

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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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Sunday Matinee: Moonrise

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Joe Pug: I do My Father’s Drugs

2020-09-05 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Jay J. Armes, El Paso’s Real Life Action figure

2020-09-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider 2 comments

Here’s a long read from Narratively.com about El Paso’s favorite nationally known Private Detective, Jay J. Armes: The Investigators were

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We’re All In This Together

2020-09-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider One comment

From the El Paso Times: Most El Paso city employees will receive a one-time payment this fall from additional sales tax revenue

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Sunday Matinee: Dangerous Crossing

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The Democrats are Giving Away the Election

2020-08-27 elrichiboy Politics, Slider 5 comments

I watched about five minutes of the Democrat convention. Five minutes is all I could take. The problem was it

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Summer’s Halfway Over

2020-08-27 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Just Kidding., Slider Leave a comment

Good news, everyone. This year’s long, hot, dry, spell, what we call “summer”, should end sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas,

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Sunday Matinee: Lawman

2020-08-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Uncategorized One comment
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The Mutant Virus

2020-08-19 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Science, Slider 2 comments

The skeptics point to Covid-19 fatality rates that are lower than projected and cry “Fraud”. But recent research indicates a

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Rest in Peace, Preston Foster

2020-08-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Preston Foster died last week in a one-car accident in Colorado. El Chuqueño extends our sincerest condolences to his family

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The Death of Democracy in El Paso

2020-08-17 elrichiboy ballpark, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Joyce Wilson, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Did you have a voice in the political process when City Council announced on a Thursday that they were going

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Sunday Matinee: The Chase

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Wood & Wire: My Hometown

2020-08-14 elrichiboy Music, Video 3 comments
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Our Fearless Leader

2020-08-12 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

A week after our city’s elected officials voted to give City Manager Tommy Gonzalez and City Attorney Karla Nieman merit

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Bluegrass Michael Jackson Bad

2020-08-10 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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A Long Walk on a Short Pier

2020-08-10 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Media, Slider 2 comments

More good news. From this week’s El Paso Inc.: As they exhaust pandemic aid and see no end to the

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Sunday Matinee: Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner in Morituri

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Our Charitable Overlords

2020-08-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a perspective on charitable giving by the rich during the pandemic, from that socialist rag, the Guardian. Private philanthropy

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Portland Protest Video

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We Could Have Had City-Wide High-Speed Internet Instead

2020-08-05 elrichiboy ballpark, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 3 comments

You know I’ve been saying that the real cost of all those vanity projects for the leisure class is what

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  • Sinister Publications on Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway
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  • Talli Nauman on March Meeting, Reports Flag Paso del Norte Air Pollution Trouble Spots
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El Chuqueño Lately

  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela
  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”
  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”
  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

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