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  • Juangabrielisimo in Juarez

    2026-08-26 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright Juan Gabriel is the biggest star to ever come out of Juarez. For Mexican music, Juan Gabriel is Elvis and Prince and

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  • The Future of El Paso | Inspired by True Events

    2026-08-23 Guest Column

    by Andres Powers I. The Ledger Start with what is already true, because prophecy is cheap and the record is not. In 2012 the city

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  • The “Notorious NARCOTIC Smuggler” La Nacha: The El Paso Years

    2025-07-31 Bob Chessey

    So, “Who was ‘La Nacha’?” For 50 years “La Nacha” remained a name synonymous with Juarez and opiate trafficking, a woman who rose to become

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  • Instrumenta antiqua stultis antiquis.

    2026-08-27 Tim Holt

    by Tim Holt Here is a little game you can play with your coworkers: try to find a document at your work that is written

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  • The Data Center Chronicles: The Storms of Jupiter Whip the Summer of ’26

    2026-08-25 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson If the summer monsoon has been a huge letdown this year, then developments around the giant AI data center under construction in

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  • The Restorative Power of Restaurants

    2026-08-21 J. Eugenio Cotera E.

    by Javier E. Cotera The date was a Sunday in July 1985. My friend Roger and I could see parishioners spilling out of the Nuestra

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  • How Much AI Is Too Much AI?

    2026-08-18 Tim Holt

    by Tim Holt Recently, I submitted a long-form editorial to El Paso Matters that I thought was worthy of posting. It was about how the

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  • “Time Table”

    2026-08-16 elrichiboy
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  • NY Times — “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States”

    2026-08-15 Rich Wright

    Some yankees from the New York Times compiled a list of “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States.” According to this post

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  • “The Real History of Africa They Never Taught You | Africa’s Great Civilizations”

    2026-08-15 elrichiboy
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  • La Cucaracha

    2026-08-14 Howard Campbell

    by Howard Campbell After walking across the heavily fortified Paso del Norte bridge and ducking through Mexican customs, you arrive at the foot of Juárez

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  • Drones for Them, But Not for Us?

    2026-08-12 Tim Holt

    By Tim Holt The ACLU released a report in March called Drones For Them But Not For Us? Most people will probably see that title

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  • Citlali Delgado, Artist

    2026-08-11 Rich Wright

    Every artist needs a body of work. One painting, or one song, or one role, on stage or the big screen, won’t lead to fame

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About the Cops

2020-06-14 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Slider 6 comments

I was on the balcony at Tricky Falls a few years ago, talking to some guys who had come down

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As protests grow, big labor sides with police unions

2020-06-08 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Slider 5 comments

This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity, Alexia Fernández Campbell, Senior Reporter Labor unions exist to

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Pokey LaFarge: Something in the Water

2020-06-05 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Living With Covid

2020-06-05 elrichiboy Quarantine, Coronavirus, Slider 5 comments

Things are different now. If you get the Covid, you’re going to kill someone you love. Your grandmother. Your father.

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Leonard Cohen: Closing Time

2020-06-04 elrichiboy Music, Video 2 comments
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Economic Development?

2020-06-04 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, El Paso Electric Company, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Y’all remember when they pitched those 2102 Quality of Life bonds, they said it was “an economic development issue”. Here’s

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Andrew Frankel: Super-Human

2020-06-01 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Et Tu, Brute?

2020-06-01 elrichiboy Meta Blog, Media 4 comments

Well, it looks like Brutus over there at ElPasoSpeak.com has gone dark. His last post was May 17. Brutus did

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Flattening the Curve

2020-06-01 elrichiboy Coronavirus, City Management, Quarantine, Slider, Your Health 4 comments

Expectations drive the economy. Economists measure consumer confidence. The futures markets are self-fulfilling prophecies, to a degree. Politicians know that.

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Retrovision: Six Years On

2020-05-29 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

This article originally appeared on 08 March 2019. On March 8, 2013, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot the

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Retrovision: The Dark Ages in El Paso

2020-05-28 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Law Enforcement, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 03 Nov 2019. Are you interested in a great job in El Paso? Get on

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“Card Tricks: How El Paso’s 2012 ‘Quality of Life’ Bond Election Got Riddled With Flimflam”

2020-05-28 elrichiboy City Management, ballpark, City Council, Corruption, Joyce Wilson, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The "Progressives", The Arena One comment

Here’s a piece on Medium.com written by veteran reporter Debbie Nathan, chronicling the run-up to the election. . . .

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The Robots Have Come for Your Job

2020-05-27 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, Technology One comment

I came home the other day and some guy was messing with my gas meter. Turns out that Texas Gas

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El Paso Post-Pandemic

2020-05-26 elrichiboy City Management, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

The future will look different. But let’s hope we’ve learned from the mistakes of the past. For the past couple

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Beisbol Been Very Very Good to Me

2020-05-21 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 10 comments

Minor league baseball is up against the wall, and it’s not because they’re trying to field a long ball to

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Webb Pierce: There Stands the Glass

2020-05-14 elrichiboy Music, Video 2 comments
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These Robots are Coming for Our Jobs

2020-05-14 elrichiboy Technology, Video Leave a comment
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Retrovision: They Think You’re Stupid. They Might Be Right.

2020-05-13 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, It's All Good, Slider 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 28 April 2015. Did you know, that no matter how much money MountainStar Sports Group

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City of Dust: The St. James Hotel, Cimarron, New Mexico

2020-05-12 John Mulhouse City of Dust 4 comments

We Will Shoot the Lights Out for You In the fall of 2005, I was driving from Oklahoma to Taos

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Wuhan Roulette

2020-05-12 elrichiboy Slider, Coronavirus 7 comments

I used to live in the greatest country in the world. If there was a problem, we’d solve it. We’d

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