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Shadow Prisons: How the Government Built More Private Prisons and Then Arrested More People

2015-02-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story (that incidentally features nice photos of El Paso): A Fusion investigation found that without a single

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America’s Largest Street Gang: a video about law-enforcement

2015-02-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

If you think we have it bad here in El Paso, where the police only occasionally murder a handcuffed prisoner,

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From Zero to $129,000 a Month in Four Months

2015-02-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According the Texas State Comptroller, the top five locations in El Paso for liquor sales in December were: Bar Fly

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Is Retaliation the EPPD’s Unofficial Policy?

2015-02-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, Sociology Professor Alice Goffman recounts In interviews, Warrant Unit officers

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Stop the Presses! El Paso Times Publishes (almost) Critical Editorial!

2015-02-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

In an uncharacteristically critical editorial on Sunday, the El Paso Times noted the limits of El Paso’s recent unemployment report.

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How to Live in El Paso

2015-02-03 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Some people think we need to spend a half a billion dollars to make El Paso an attractive place to

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Is the Border Patrol Out of Control?

2015-02-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There was the incident last week where Border Patrol agents chased a man for thirty miles before they shot him

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About the Camino Real

2015-01-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Locals are the worst people to ask about hotels, because mostly locals don’t stay in local hotels. The Camino Real

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White King Puto

2015-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m thinking the branding company didn’t perform due diligence seeing how this product name translated into other cultural contexts. Or

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Deflate-gate Started in 2007

2015-01-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here is an extremely interesting analysis of the New England Patriots recent seasons, which seems to indicate that maybe the

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Hotel Occupancy Rates Up for 2014, Maybe

2015-01-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Times, local hotel occupancy was up last year. El Paso’s hotel occupancy

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“Don’t Fix City Budget With More PSB Fees”

2015-01-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

That’s the headline from a guest column in this week’s El Paso Inc. It was written by outgoing board member

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A Penthouse in the Heart of Downtown

2015-01-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

One of El Paso’s reclusive millionaires has a penthouse in downtown El Paso. I’ve always wondered what it looked like,

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Expect Less

2015-01-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Billionaire Jeff Greene is taking lots of flack for saying “America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to

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Border Patrol Shoots, Kills Man Who Drove Through Sierra Blanca Checkpoint

2015-01-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Those Border Patrol checkpoints can be deadly. This story came from KURV710, Fox News Radio: The U.S. Border Patrol says

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Go to Mexico

2015-01-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Travel in Mexico is great. The country is beautiful, the culture is rich, and the dollar is strong. A decent

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NY Speaker Arrested for Corruption. Is Texas Next?

2015-01-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

This from the Associated Press: New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested Thursday on public corruption charges and accused

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Don’t Blame the Bigs

2015-01-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s not fair to lay the blame for El Paso’s recent poor performance on lists like Milken’s Best Performing Cities,

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Where are the Good Cops?

2015-01-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from CounterCurrentNews.com. “If you snitch, your career is done,” one officer told him. He eventually became public

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Is El Paso Safe? Not According to NASCAR Driver Kurt Bucsh

2015-01-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story on Delaware Online: Once, he [Kurt Busch] said, they were in El Paso, Texas, where [Busch’s

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The People Speak!

  • Jessamyn C Young on Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One
  • John G. Dungan on Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?
  • David Dunaway on We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice
  • Richard Moore on We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice
  • LOUIS HEAD on Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond
  • F.A. Sommerfeld on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • JerryK on El Paso is Falling
  • elrichiboy on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • John G. Dungan on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • Richard Moore on People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

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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