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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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  • Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?

    2026-04-22 Rich Wright

    You probably heard lately that El Paso is the second best big city in the U.S. in which to live. It was on the news.

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  • We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice

    2026-04-21 Kent Paterson

    Downwinder leader Tina Cordova speaks at the Valle de Oro Community Earth Day event. Seated to Cordova’s immediate left is Loretta Anderson and next to

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Does He, or Doesn’t he?

2019-08-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

There has been some speculation lately about Mayor Margo’s motives for endorsing some of his political positions. An ethics complaint

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What’s Good for the Goose

2019-08-02 elrichiboy Breaking News, Ethics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena One comment

Popular Italian tenor Max Grossman sent me an email this week that contained this interesting information: The Mayor of El

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Retrovision: The Borderplex Alliance’s New Strategic Plan: A Critique

2019-08-01 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 03 June 2015. How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars. —

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Clank Clank Clank Went the Trolley

2019-07-30 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Trolley 4 comments

The El Paso Times reported yesterday on the City’s streetcar debacle. Sun Metro officials are looking for ways to boost

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The Day the Secret Service Killed the President

2019-07-29 elrichiboy Video 2 comments

Accidentally, of course. Here’s a documentary that posits that President Kennedy was killed by a new Secret Service agent, and

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Things Are Great. Just not for Taxpayers.

2019-07-29 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This week there’s a column by the editor of the El Paso Inc. about how great DWNTWN is doing. Property

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Speaking of Tortillas

2019-07-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

Did you remember that the Rib Hut on Mesa has $1.50 burritos on Saturdays? You can pick up a dozen

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Mmm good!

2019-07-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider One comment

I haven’t tasted these tortillas yet, but they smell delicious.

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Surprise, Surprise!

2019-07-22 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

You know, the City used to justify municipal extravagance with the rationalization that we need to swing our tax base

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Retrovision: What’s Wrong With El Paso

2019-07-17 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Slider 5 comments

This post originally appeared on 27 August 2012, shortly after man harnessed fire and before the invention of the wheel.

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EPEC’s Falling Bond Rating

2019-07-16 elrichiboy Cost of Living, El Paso Electric Company, Slider Leave a comment

Another story from the El Paso Inc.: El Paso Electric has been placed on review for downgrade by one of

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Survey Says . . .

2019-07-15 elrichiboy Perspectives, Slider Leave a comment

Okay, fans, here’s a survey about the city being conducted by a UTEP student who asked us to participate. It’s

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Smells Fishy

2019-07-15 elrichiboy City Council, El Paso Electric Company, Slider 3 comments

The El Paso Inc. this week came out with this enticing story: An El Paso businessman has commissioned an independent

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Unintended Consequences

2019-07-12 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Elections, Media, Politics, Slider 3 comments

Sometime in the murky past, the City moved the date of local elections to coincide with state and national elections.

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Clueless in El Chuco

2019-07-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

An alert reader forwarded me District 8 City Representative Cissy Lizarraga’s latest newsletter. Rep. Lizarraga is proud to tell her

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Brother, Can You Spare a Billion Bucks?

2019-07-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Dionne Mack, Opportunity Costs, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

This November, the City of El Paso will ask its taxpayers to approve a $940 million bond. From CBS4Local.com: “At

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Chime the F Off

2019-07-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

From today’s print version of the El Paso Times: City staff said 2,200 El Pasoans participated in a community-wide survey

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Quality of Life

2019-07-09 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, How to Live in El Paso, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

What makes for a good quality of life? I may be shallow, but my Quality of Life is improved when

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Sunday Matinee: John Doe: Vigilante

2019-07-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a story about revenge, kind of like Charles Bronson’s Death Wish. Those folks in Australia sure do talk funny.

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“Assessment Limits”

2019-07-04 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Sharp-eyed El Pasophiles will have noticed that El Paso came in both first and second place in homestead property tax

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  • 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.”
  • Our Surveillance State
  • Alec Guiness in “The Detective”

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