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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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Are Their Lips Moving?

2018-08-20 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, TIRZs One comment

El Paso Inc. this week had a nice feature on Hunt Companies’ development in Northwest El Paso. Have you been

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The Freeway Is Open

2018-08-19 Rich Wright Breaking News 2 comments

Or at least it will be momentarily. The work on the utility bridge is done. Now all we lack is

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief

2018-08-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

You’ve been good. Some of you have been very good. Others, not so much. You know who you are. For

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Where Am I?

2018-08-18 elrichiboy History, New Mexico 13 comments

A reader sent in this photo, and he’s looking to identify the location. Here’s what Phillip tells us: Westward bound

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Oye, Coño!

2018-08-18 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 6 comments

Have you been waiting for a good Cuban restaurant to open downtown? Wait no longer! Los Lopez Lopez just opened

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Toro!

2018-08-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 2 comments

Are you in the mood for a barbaric spectacle that’s steeped in tradition? Well, the election isn’t till November, but

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“Hold The Line”

2018-08-15 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

This from the El Paso Times this morning: The City Council rejected a utility sales tax on natural gas and

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Reasonable People

2018-08-14 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Slider One comment

I think reasonable people will agree that El Paso’s property taxes are too high. El Paso’s property tax rates are

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Sunday Matinee: Anon

2018-08-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a movie starring Clive Owen as a detective on an omniscient police force trying to stop a hacker who

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Retrovision: Who’s Driving This Truck?

2018-08-10 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 15 December 2016. It looks increasingly like City Staff are giving direction to City Council

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About That Great Wolf Lodge

2018-08-06 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Taxes 9 comments

The poobahs at Great Wolf got hornswoggled into opening one of their hotel water parks in El Paso. Have you

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Sunday Matinee: Pickup on South Street

2018-08-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Here’s a cold war era noir flick from back when the Soviet Union was a bad actor. How times have

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A Public Obscenity

2018-08-03 Rich Wright ballpark, City Council, Political Advertisement, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 5 comments

I think it’s obscene that the City of El Paso asks the working poor to pay for luxury amenities for

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Retrovision: The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2018-08-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Education, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes One comment

This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for

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Deus Ex Machina Redux

2018-08-02 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider One comment

When Representative Dr. Sam Morgan talked about Operational Security and him knowing things that we didn’t know, I hope he

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The Central Appraisal District Responds

2018-08-01 Rich Wright Cost of Living, Taxes 4 comments

Yesterday a loyal reader sent one of my articles to Dinah Kilgore, the Executive Director and Chief Appraiser of the

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Mo’ Taxes, Mo’ Problems

2018-07-31 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Taxes 2 comments

If you’re happy with the way things are going at City Hall, you’re not paying attention. The El Paso Times

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The Mayor’s Missing Emails

2018-07-30 elrichiboy City Council, Ethics, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

From the El Paso Inc.: El Paso Mayor Dee Margo appears to have sidestepped the city’s public information rules and

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Sunday Matinee: The Rover

2018-07-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 2 comments

Here’s a 2014 post-apocalyptic dystopia flick set in the Australian outback. No, not Mad Max. A different, more believable, post-apocalyptic

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The Easiest Thing To Do Is Not Care

2018-07-27 elrichiboy City Council, Elections, Slider 8 comments

City Council has shown a complete disregard for what many members of the community care about. They’ve made their decisions

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The People Speak!

  • 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
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  • John G. Dungan on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • Richard Moore on People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
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El Chuqueño Lately

  • 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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