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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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STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso

2025-06-16 Paul Dickerson Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider 2 comments

by Paul Dickerson This morning, I was crossing the Puente Paso del Norte back to El Paso after running a

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“Outside the Law”

2025-06-15 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Colombian Cartels: Meet the World’s Biggest Drug Suppliers”

2025-06-14 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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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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“The League of Gentlemen”

2025-06-08 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“1964: The Year That Changed America”

2025-06-07 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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Dr. M. C. Melanson’s One-Track Mind

2025-06-06 Bob Chessey El Paso, History, Slider Leave a comment

by Bob Chessey Narcotic traffickers aim to profit by delivering contraband across geopolitical lines; however, there are physicians who trespass

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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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Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes”

2025-06-01 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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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 Sunland Park-Santa Teresa Chronicles: Cannabis, CRRUA and Capitalism

2025-05-29 Kent Paterson CRRUA, Slider, Sunland Park, Water 3 comments

The evening of May 21, 2025 will surely count as one of the liveliest meetings of the Sunland Park City

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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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CRRUA in the Whirlwind: The Future of People and Water in Sunland Park-Santa Teresa at the Crossroads

2025-05-17 Kent Paterson CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, The Environment, Water One comment

by Kent Paterson Like the wind, dust and mist that sting the spring of 2025, stormy developments surround the fundamental

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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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“Yes, Your Arrogancy”

2025-05-12 elrichiboy Arrogance, Art Fierro, City Council, Slider Leave a comment

From ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso City Council this week will take another look at public engagement at meetings after a

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