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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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  • Economic Undevelopment

    2026-02-25 Rich Wright

    According to ElDiario.mx, El Paso lost 750 jobs in the last four months of 2025. Juarez lost 17,000 maquila jobs in all of 2025. That

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Full Transparency From Our Friends at EPEC

2019-12-28 elrichiboy El Paso Electric Company, Slider One comment

I have this thing at my house that’s like a teevee hooked up to a typewriter. In fact, I’m typing

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Friday Short: The Reckoning

2019-12-27 elrichiboy Friday Short, Sci Fi, Video Leave a comment
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Electric El Paso

2019-12-26 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, El Paso Electric Company, Slider One comment

I’ve heard rumors that J.P. Morgan is having a little hard time coming up with the $4.3 billion they need

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Who Rules El Paso?

2019-12-20 elrichiboy Corruption, How to Live in El Paso, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

I’ll give you a hint. Follow the money. There’s a new book out titled Who Rules El Paso? Give the

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“Good Cause”

2019-12-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 13 comments

On December 5, I requested the employment contracts for City Manager Tommy Gonzalez from the City of El Paso via

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Poor Man’s Poison: Hell’s Coming With Me

2019-12-17 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Rag’n’Bone Man: Human

2019-12-17 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Orwellian Doublespeak

2019-12-17 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Mexico, Slider One comment

God bless those hardworking men and women protecting our nation’s borders. But this new biometric picture-taking program they have at

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Topeka’s Looking Pretty Good

2019-12-16 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Some cities are paying people to move to them. From the New York Times: Add Topeka, Kan., to the growing

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Sunday Matinee: Otto Preminger’s “Fallen Angel”

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How To Live in El Paso: London Rocket

2019-12-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 11 January 2016. It has been lightly edited. If you live in El Paso, you

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“An Intersection of Possibilities”

2019-12-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Juarez, New Mexico, population, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

From the people who brought you the Glass Beach Study. Here’s a nice video promoting El Paso, Las Cruces and

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Portugal. The Man: “Feel It Still”

2019-12-11 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Know Your Chile!

2019-12-11 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider 2 comments

I made some salsa brava the other day. Chile pequin, onion, garlic, and tomatoes, burned in a skillet and run

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Retrovision: A Local Expert’s Perspective on Economic Development

2019-12-10 elrichiboy Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 10 October 2015. Here’s what Jerry Pacheco, the Executive Director of the International Business Accelerator,

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El Paso Electric vs. The People

2019-12-08 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, El Paso Electric Company, Slider Leave a comment

It seems like all those people who are in favor of the Electric Company sale to J.P. Morgan stand to

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Sunday Matinee: The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire

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Bloodsuckers

2019-12-07 elrichiboy Economic Development, How to Live in El Paso, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Now in our “vibrant downtown!” From PopularResistance.org: Blood has become big business in the United States and there is no

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Friday Short: The Occupant

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What El Paso’s Stagnant Population Growth Means To You

2019-12-05 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, population, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

I guess you’ve heard the news. El Paso’s not growing. Our birthrate is falling. School enrollment is down. Those aren’t

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  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway
  • “Hangover Square”

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