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  • “Jealous Badge”

    2026-05-17 elrichiboy
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  • “The New ‘Oumuamua? Everything We Know So Far About 3I/Atlas”

    2026-05-16 elrichiboy
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  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One

    2026-05-13 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Paula Flores recently retold parts of a painfully long and unresolved story to an audience at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in

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  • “Cry Vegeance”

    2026-05-10 elrichiboy
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  • “The Officer Who Threw the Punch Isn’t the Problem. The Man Who Approved It Is.”

    2026-05-08 elrichiboy
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  • Our Surveillance State

    2026-05-05 Rich Wright

    From APNews.com: Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor

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  • Alec Guiness in “The Detective”

    2026-05-03 elrichiboy
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  • “Stone Age Temple Mystery”

    2026-05-02 elrichiboy
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  • UTEP’s Professional College Athletes

    2026-04-27 Rich Wright

    “Hookers and a Camaro aren’t going to cut it anymore.” — My friend Mora I think UTEP should be a big party school, because it’s

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  • “Surprise Witness”

    2026-04-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Four Dead in Five Seconds”

    2026-04-25 elrichiboy
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  • The 1915 Collision of the Iron Cure and the Harrison Narcotic Act in El Paso

    2026-04-23 Bob Chessey

    Kicking an opiate habit is a bitch. Before the advent of modern medical and pharmaceutical interventions, counseling, and peer support groups, the nationwide de facto

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“Harper”

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Red Elvises at Sunset Parlor this Tuesday

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Your favorite band brings it back to El Paso this Tuesday, at the Sunset Parlor.

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Thank the Taxpayers

2025-11-10 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Ricardo Samaniego, Slider, Taxes One comment

Here’s a story at ElPasoTimes.com titled State of the County address touts growth through bonds in address. “On time and

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Can’t We Just Wait?

2025-11-09 Rich Wright Deck Park, Slider, TxDOT 2 comments

Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people

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“The Sniper”

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“Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

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“Deadfall”

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Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

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With music by David Romo.

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Bullfight Tonight!

2025-10-31 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

The 2025 bullfighting season carries on tonight with another spectacle at the Aberto Balderas Bullring in downtown Juarez. Tonight’s headliner

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Gregory Peck in “The Case of the Enchanted Prisoner”

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“Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

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“EL PASO, WHERE SUNSHINE SPENDS THE WINTER”

2025-10-23 Bob Chessey Culture, El Paso, History, Music, Slider Leave a comment

by Bob Chessey One hundred years ago, before El Paso simply advertised and referred to itself as the “Sun City,”

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The Russians Are Coming!

2025-10-22 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music Leave a comment

Igor and the Red Elvises are performing at the Sunset Parlor, 1307 N. Oregon, at 7:30, on Tuesday, November 18.

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Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

2025-10-20 Rich Wright Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider One comment

by Rich Wright This article, or something very much like it, originally appeared on NewspaperTree.com in early May, 2008. There’s

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“The Other Woman”

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“The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

2025-10-18 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment

Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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Who’s the New Guy?

2025-10-17 Rich Wright Law Enforcement, Slider, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing

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Ninja Convention

2025-10-16 Rich Wright El Paso, Slider, Visit El Paso One comment

The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade

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“Dressed to Kill”

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“Trump and the FBI”

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El Chuqueño Lately

  • “Jealous Badge”
  • “The New ‘Oumuamua? Everything We Know So Far About 3I/Atlas”
  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One
  • “Cry Vegeance”
  • “The Officer Who Threw the Punch Isn’t the Problem. The Man Who Approved It Is.”

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