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“The First Livestreamed Genocide”

2025-06-21 Rich Wright Slider, War Crimes Leave a comment

From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted

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I Don’t Like Bullies

2025-06-20 Rich Wright Politics, Slider 2 comments

On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not

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Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

2025-06-18 Rich Wright Bridge of the Americas, Mexico, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision

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Dead People

2025-06-13 Rich Wright Drugs, Juarez, Marijuana, Slider 2 comments

I am of an age where I know lots of dead people. Some, of course, have been dead for a

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El Paso is a Small Town

2025-06-02 Rich Wright El Paso Times, Media, Slider 3 comments

Today’s front page headline of the dead tree edition of our English almost-daily newspaper is “Five new restaurants to try

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El Paso 23rd Biggest City in the U.S.?

2025-05-30 Rich Wright ballpark, Deck Park, population, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

From ElPasoMatters.org: The population in El Paso’s city limits grew by 150 people between 2023 and 2024, continuing a decade-long

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CRRUA Update: State of New Mexico Sues

2025-05-29 Rich Wright CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, Water Leave a comment

From SourceNM.com: New Mexico’s environment department on Wednesday announced it has filed a lawsuit against the Camino Real Regional Utility

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The New Hypernormalization

2025-05-28 Rich Wright Opinion, Slider One comment

From TheGuardian.com: First articulated in 2005 by scholar Alexei Yurchak to describe the civilian experience in Soviet Russia, hypernormalization describes

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No Mas La Puntita

2025-05-26 Rich Wright City Council, Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT, Veronica Escobar 2 comments

From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council voted eight to zero to pass a resolution authorizing the submission of an application

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Gallium in Round Top Mountain

2025-05-25 Rich Wright Economic Development, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

From EcoPortal.net, a story titled 36,000,000 kg under this American region ? It’s better than lithium and the end of

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The Apartment

2025-05-14 Rich Wright Fiction, Slider 4 comments

by Rich Wright His hands are filthy. He looks at them where they protrude from the frayed cuffs of his

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Blow, Wind, Blow

2025-05-13 Rich Wright Everybody talks about the weather, Slider 2 comments

From a May 4 post on Gizmodo.com: This year’s drought-exacerbated dusty season is “truly exceptional—one for the record books,” said

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The New Soccer Stadium

2025-04-26 Rich Wright MountainStar Sports Group, Slider One comment

From Mexico’s national media outlet Milenio.com: Alejandra de la Vega, propietaria de los Bravos de Juárez, ha confirmado uno de

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About the Deck Park

2025-04-23 Rich Wright Deck Park, Renard Johnson, Slider, TxDOT 5 comments

by Rich Wright You may have noticed that the deck park is still in play, even after funding sources have

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Elephant March

2025-04-22 Rich Wright Fiction, Slider One comment

by Rich Wright When I was six, my father took me to the circus. My father drank a lot, and

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Transparency, Chuco-style

2025-04-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dionne Mack, Slider Leave a comment

Can you believe that 6 of our 8 City Representatives voted against citizen oversight of bond expenditures? From Adam Powell

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We Need a New Political Party

2025-02-19 Rich Wright Politics, Slider 5 comments

President Obama bailed out the banks. President Cheney started a war that netted his company billions in no-bid contracts. Both

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Border Theater

2025-02-10 Rich Wright International Relations, Juarez, Mexico, Slider One comment

Yesterday the Mexican Army posted up on Avenida Juarez. What were they looking for? Fentanyl? Venezuelans? The approval of the

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Otero County Deputy Charged With Murder

2025-02-04 Rich Wright El Paso Police Department, Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a horrific story about a trigger happy deputy unloading a whole clip into a teenager who dropped an airsoft

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Is the Deck Park Dead, or Just Resting?

2025-01-27 Rich Wright Deck Park 4 comments

From Diego Mendoza-Moyers at ElPasoMatters.com: The effort to build a deck park suspended over Interstate 10 in Downtown El Paso

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The People Speak!

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