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  • UTEP’s Professional College Athletes

    2026-04-27 elrichiboy

    “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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  • Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”

    2026-04-19 elrichiboy
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  • “How Ciudad Juárez Spiralled Into Cartel Madness”

    2026-04-18 elrichiboy
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  • “Now We Know Their Names”

    2026-04-17 elrichiboy
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  • Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond

    2026-04-16 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson After a lapse of nearly one year-and-a-half, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) conducted a community meeting the evening of April 7

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  • Paul and Julie Ten Years After

    2026-04-13 Rich Wright

    On or about 05 October 2016, I took Paul and Julie to Juarez. Paul and Julie were ballroom dancers. Like The Sound of Music. Okay

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  • “The Gary Webb Story: CIA, Cocaine, and a Media Assassination”

    2026-04-11 elrichiboy
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Lie Back and Enjoy It

2018-03-08 elrichiboy Economic Development, The Arena Leave a comment

Some of my friends think that Woody Hunt was suggesting that the proposed arena should be reconsidered when he said

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About That Arena

2018-03-07 elrichiboy City Council, Lobbyists, Politics, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Remember that poll about the arena that KVIA did? Only 26% of the residents of El Paso County who were

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Retrovision: The Master Plan

2018-03-05 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

I was going to write about the soccer stadium, but I realized that I already did. This post originally appeared

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Sunday Matinee: Farewell My Lovely

2018-03-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Robert Mitchum is one of the Hollywood stars I would have most like to share a bottle of tequila with.

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Those poor dears. They try so hard.

2018-03-01 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council Leave a comment

This is the sidewalk on Cincinnati Street. You remember. The City just spent money to make it nice. They put

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City of Dust: Cedarvale, New Mexico

2018-02-26 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

No Rattlesnakes/No Pinto Beans Let’s stay in central New Mexico for one more post and add yet another piece to

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Naysayers, Malcontents, and Liars

2018-02-26 elrichiboy ballpark, Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 5 comments

Former City Council Representative and Mayoral Candidate and current member of the board of the Downtown Management District Steve Ortega,

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy

2018-02-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a Hitchcock film that may have escaped your notice. Here’s the plot summary from IMDb: A serial murderer is

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Golf Clubs

2018-02-23 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships One comment

Perhaps you saw this story in the El Paso Times about the public golf courses in the city. El Paso’s

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Driving Down the Road, Gazing in the Rearview Mirror

2018-02-22 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Education, Elections, The Arena 4 comments

I get it. The billionaires are putting a lot of money into spiffing up downtown. And we better jump on

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It’s All About the Spin

2018-02-21 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships 4 comments

Did you see this story about El Paso’s newest Public Private Partnership? From the El Paso Times: Fivestars, a San

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Quality of Life

2018-02-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

If you found fifty bucks on the street, what would you do with it? Pay down your credit card debt?

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The City of El Paso’s New Link Policy Has Nothing To Do With Municipal Golf Courses

2018-02-19 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Politics, Slider 3 comments

Last week I created a link to the Interim Director of Municipal Financial Operations’ presentation to City Council, which contained

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Sunday Matinee: Detour

2018-02-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

If this movie were any more noir, it would be a parody of itself. Here’s what IMDb had to say

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City of Dust: Trouble in Mind

2018-02-16 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

I’ve been listening to a lot of Janis Joplin lately because of a dead woman. She died in late middle-age

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Death and Taxes

2018-02-14 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Here’s a chart I lifted from a presentation the City’s Interim Director of Municipal Financial Operations gave to City Council

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Survey Says:

2018-02-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

Did you see the results of this survey that KVIA did on putting the arena in Duranguito? ABC-7 recently conducted

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Sunday Matinee: Patterns

2018-02-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 1956 movie with a script written by Rod Serling. It’s about office politics, and naked capitalism. Watch this

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All The News That May or May Not Exist

2018-02-07 elrichiboy Media, School Districts Leave a comment

Did you see the latest dustup over there at EPISD? From KVIA: EPISD District 7 Trustee Mickey Loweree said she

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Okay, I’m Running.

2018-02-06 elrichiboy City Council 12 comments

Friday I filed a Campaign Treasurers Appointment for a run to be the City Council Representative for District 8. That

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

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