Skip to content

El Chuqueño

The dog barks, and the caravan moves on.

  • Home
El Chuqueño
  • Heath Haussaman on Project Jupiter

    2025-09-11 Rich Wright

    Here’s veteran journalist Heath Haussaman with a deep dive into the $165 billion Project Jupiter that’s proposed for Sunland Park. ARTICLE SUMMARY:On its face Project

    Continue reading
  • “The Fat Man”

    2025-09-07 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • Taxes, Tax Breaks and a Texas Two-Step

    2025-09-05 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson You may or may not have heard about Project Jupiter by now. No, it’s not the latest scheme by Elon Musk to

    Continue reading
  • “He Ran All the Way”

    2025-08-31 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • “BARRIO AZTECA: Cartel Wars on the Texas Border”

    2025-08-30 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • Leave It to the D.A.

    2025-08-26 Rich Wright

    Here’s one of those stories from the El Paso Times that made the front page of the dead tree edition but you have to look

    Continue reading
  • Retrovision: El Paso Police Are Taser Happy and the El Paso Times Doesn’t Want You to Know It

    2025-08-25 Rich Wright

    This story originally appeared on 8 December 2022. Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of the El Paso Times: One

    Continue reading
  • “The Glass Wall”

    2025-08-24 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • “Cartels, Tariffs and Fentanyl, the US-Mexico Border Showdown Investigated | Foreign Correspondent”

    2025-08-23 elrichiboy
    Continue reading
  • Another Mental Health Crisis Homicide at the Hands of EPPD

    2025-08-23 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Police Department has a thing for killing people having mental health crises. Check out this latest body-cam video: The guy was asking

    Continue reading
  • An Economic Forecast

    2025-08-22 Rich Wright

    Here’s part of an editorial from El Diario de Juarez:1 Ayer informamos que, a tasa mensual, la producción de la maquila en Ciudad Juárez cayó

    Continue reading
  • The Purge is Coming

    2025-08-21 Rich Wright

    Here’s a video about McAllen, Texas. El Paso might not be next, but it’s on the list.

    Continue reading

Bernie Sanders on the EPEC Sale

2020-03-16 elrichiboy El Paso Electric Company, Media, Slider One comment

There’s a story in today’s El Paso Times: Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and two other United States senators want two

Continue reading

Sunday Matinee: Stalker

2020-03-15 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
Continue reading

Bertrand Russell on Local Politics

2020-03-10 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, Taxes One comment

Sometimes, when me and my friends are passing around the plastic flask of Old Forrester, the conversation turns to the

Continue reading

Friday Short: Hail Mary Country

2020-03-06 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
Continue reading

Friday Short: Terminal

2020-03-06 elrichiboy Friday Short, Sci Fi Leave a comment
Continue reading

Radio La Chusma: Big Money

2020-03-02 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
Continue reading

Is a Gated Community a Public Good?

2020-03-02 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 8 comments

Will it benefit you? Tomorrow, City Council will consider amending the parameters of Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone 13, that TIRZ

Continue reading

Sunday Matinee: Never Let Go with Peter Sellers

2020-03-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Uncategorized Leave a comment
Continue reading

Friday Short: Outpost

2020-02-28 elrichiboy Friday Short, Uncategorized Leave a comment
Continue reading

How America Killed Mass Transit

2020-02-27 elrichiboy Public Transportation, Slider, Trolley, Urban Planning 2 comments

From CityLab.com: One hundred years ago, the United States had a public transportation system that was the envy of the

Continue reading

DakhaBrakha: Divka Marusechka

2020-02-26 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
Continue reading

Fake News: “El Paso Has the Second Highest Homestead Tax Rate in the U.S.”

2020-02-25 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

A lot of people have been saying that El Paso has the second highest homestead tax rate in the country,

Continue reading

Paul Foster Likes the Arena

2020-02-25 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 5 comments

The El Paso Inc. ran a story about the restoration of the Plaza Hotel this weekend. That renovation was undertaken

Continue reading

Sunday Matinee: Ingmar Bergman’s Persona

2020-02-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
Continue reading

Is the City’s Strategic Plan Working for You?

2020-02-21 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Economic Development, Jessica Herrera, Slider, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

In 2012, the City of El Paso began implementing a strategic plan to foster economic development in the area. According

Continue reading

Campaign Finance Shenanigans

2020-02-20 elrichiboy Corruption, Elections, Ethics, Slider One comment

Those nice guys at The Forma Group lent almost $7,000 to their client Debbie Torres for her District 6 runoff

Continue reading

Documentary: Collapse

2020-02-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
Continue reading

Inti Illimani: La Partida

2020-02-19 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
Continue reading

Relationship Advice for the City of El Paso

2020-02-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 4 comments

Dear City of El Paso, I get it. You’ve been dumped. Boeing left you for Huntsville, Alabama, and Huntsville doesn’t

Continue reading

Sunday Matinee: John Ford’s My Darling Clementine

2020-02-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 88 89 90 91 92 … 195 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!

  • Brian Edwards on “The Fat Man”
  • MELODY Ann HAINLINE on City of Dust: Encino, New Mexico
  • F.A. Sommerfeld on Leave It to the D.A.
  • Devin +Nunes+Escaped+Cow on What Redistricting Means to El Paso
  • Jay Koester on Retrovision: Billares El Cid
  • Jerry K on We Don’t Need No Stinking Ethics
  • elrichiboy on Retrovision: Billares El Cid
  • Jay Koester on Retrovision: Billares El Cid
  • elrichiboy on Retrovision: Billares El Cid
  • Jay Koester on Retrovision: Billares El Cid
Receive new posts right in your InBox!
Loading

El Chuqueño Lately

  • “The Dramatic Fall of the Norman Dynasty”
  • Heath Haussaman on Project Jupiter
  • “The Fat Man”
  • “Rollo: The Dark Age Warrior Who Became King Of Normandy”
  • Taxes, Tax Breaks and a Texas Two-Step

Stuff we talk about