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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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Friday Short: The Beacon

2020-04-10 elrichiboy Friday Short, Sci Fi, Video Leave a comment
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Watching Our Wasteline

2020-04-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Public Transportation, Slider, Taxes 10 comments

The trolley’s not coming back. Right? The City will break it out for special events, like Chalk the Block. Maybe

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At Least They’re Honest About It

2020-04-09 elrichiboy Media, Slider Leave a comment

From the ElPasoMatters.org About Us page: Our organization retains full authority over editorial content to protect the best journalistic and

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Mmm, Salsa!

2020-04-06 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 2 comments

I know you know how to make salsa, because there’s no wrong way to make salsa. Chiles, tomatoes, tomatillos, onion,

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Will Tommy G Self-Quarantine?

2020-04-03 elrichiboy City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

Did you see the new directives for dealing with COVID-19? Especially this one? Except for Healthcare Operations in Section 5(c),

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We Should Fire Tommy Gonzalez

2020-04-02 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

He might be a nice guy. Maybe. He’s been here five years, and I’ve never heard anyone accuse him of

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Mingo Saldivar: Rueda de Fuego

2020-03-29 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Sunday Matinee: American Hot wax

2020-03-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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I Think I’ve Got the Coronavirus

2020-03-28 elrichiboy Slider 3 comments

On February 29th, I shook hands with someone who, unbeknownst to me, had just returned from Milan. A couple of

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Saturday Matinee: D.O.A.

2020-03-28 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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Friday Matinee: Charlton Heston and Sofia Loren in El Cid

2020-03-27 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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About That Gran Logia del Lobo

2020-03-26 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Joel and Dr. Sam “She just wouldn’t shut up” Morgan think that people from Juarez and Chihuahua City will support

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Israel is Snooping on Israeli Cellphones

2020-03-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

From the Guardian: Israel’s government has approved emergency measures to track people suspected or confirmed to have been infected with

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Sam Morgan is Full of Shit

2020-03-23 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

God Bless Him. At last Tuesday’s City Council meeting, Dr. Sam “She Just Wouldn’t Shut Up” Morgan claimed that the

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Sunday Matinee: Clark Gable and Loretta Young in the Call of the Wild

2020-03-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment
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The Great Ongoing Land Swindle

2020-03-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Way back on 30 July 2014, in a post titled Can El Paso Go Bankrupt?, I wrote: I mean, we’re

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The Fat Men’s Club

2020-03-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Here’s a story from Texas Monthly: “Reckhart is Fasting” read the headline of a 1902 El Paso Daily Times. Reckhart, apparently,

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Conflict of Interest?

2020-03-17 elrichiboy El Paso Electric Company, Media, Slider One comment

Yesterday I reported on an article I found on Page 8A of the El Paso Times. The article said that

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The Alternate Realities of Living in El Paso

2020-03-17 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

The people running El Paso are delusional. They’re drunk. Drunk on power and ego. They latched onto this idea that

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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

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  • (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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