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  • “Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

    2025-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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  • “The Spider”

    2025-06-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

    2025-06-21 elrichiboy
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  • “The First Livestreamed Genocide”

    2025-06-21 Rich Wright

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

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  • I Don’t Like Bullies

    2025-06-20 Rich Wright

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

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  • Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

    2025-06-18 Rich Wright

    Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision to eliminate it. From KVIA.com:

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

    2025-06-16 Paul Dickerson

    by Paul Dickerson This morning, I was crossing the Puente Paso del Norte back to El Paso after running a pressing errand in Ciudad Juárez.

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  • “Outside the Law”

    2025-06-15 elrichiboy
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  • “Colombian Cartels: Meet the World’s Biggest Drug Suppliers”

    2025-06-14 elrichiboy
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  • Dead People

    2025-06-13 Rich Wright

    I am of an age where I know lots of dead people. Some, of course, have been dead for a while. Hollywood. Asshole Bob. Jimmy

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  • “The League of Gentlemen”

    2025-06-08 elrichiboy
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“Joe T. Hodo con rezos enlatados”

2024-03-04 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo, Video One comment
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Mexico’s Mega Elections: The Time of Women

2024-03-04 Kent Paterson Mexico, Politics, Slider Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson Amid bots, bombast and border bullying, Mexico’s general election campaign kicked off March 1. An estimated 98.9

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A Message From the Border

2024-03-03 Rich Wright Immigration, Mexico, Migration, Slider 2 comments

Check out this letter that appeared in the New York Times print edition, and on NYTImes.com: To the Editor: Re

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Humphrey Bogart in “In a Lonely Place”

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Historical Spanish

2024-03-03 Rich Wright Uncategorized Leave a comment

From NYTimes.com: In most of the Spanish-speaking world, the principal ways to say “you” are the casual “tú,” and the

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“The Spy Who Saved D-Day”

2024-03-02 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Business as Usual

2024-02-29 Rich Wright El Paso County, Law Enforcement, Sheriff, Slider 3 comments

This story by Elida Perez on ElPasoMatters.com reveals that 4 of the 5 candidates for the Democrat nomination for Sheriff

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A Homegrown City Manager?

2024-02-27 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Joyce Wilson, Oscar Leeser, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Two weeks ago City Council rejected Mayor Oscar Leeser’s proposal to restrict the search for a City Manager to locals.

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More From Joyce

2024-02-26 Rich Wright Arrogance, City Council, Joyce Wilson, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Here’s another email that disgraced former City Manager Joyce Wilson sent to Mayor Oscar Leeser: Since the 2012 Quality of

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Impact Fees, Annunciation House, and Tropicana Homes

2024-02-26 Rich Wright Politics, Slider One comment

Here’s an great article from Diego Mendoza-Moyers at ElPasoMatters.com about the subsidies El Paso taxpayers give to local home builders.

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Humphrey Bogart in “Tokyo Joe”

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“Panic of 1066”

2024-02-24 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Revisiting the 2012 Quality of Life Bond Promotion

2024-02-24 Rich Wright Borderplex Alliance, Downtown, Economic Development, Joyce Wilson, Local Heroes, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena One comment

Debbie Nathan was a local hero. She’s still a hero, but she’s not local anymore. Ms. Nathan is an accomplished

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Another Reason We’re Doomed

2024-02-23 Rich Wright Economic Development, Slider, Workforce Solutions Borderplex 3 comments

Leila Martinez has it figured it out, according to this ElPasoTimes.com article: Upskilling. That’s what El Paso’s workforce needs to

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The Failure of the 2012 Quality of Life Projects

2024-02-22 Rich Wright Arrogance, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Joyce Wilson, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

They promised us economic development. They promised us a vibrant downtown. They promised us a minimal increase in property taxes.

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What Joyce Said

2024-02-21 Rich Wright Arrogance, El Paso Matters, Gensler, Joyce Wilson, Media, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

Here’s the email that former City Manager Joyce Wilson sent to Mayor Oscar Leeser last week: Even though I’ve been

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“I think we deserve a 14,000 seat arena.”

2024-02-20 Rich Wright Art Fierro, Carmen Arrieta-Candelaria, Joyce Wilson, Slider, The Arena One comment

That’s what District 6 Representative Art Fierro was quoted as saying in this ElPasoTimes.com article. Why? Have we been misbehaving?

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“The Anderson Tapes”

2024-02-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Featuring Sean Connery and introducing Christopher Walken

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“Zhukow – Marshal of the Soviet Union”

2024-02-17 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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AMLO and the Third Rail of Mexican Politics

2024-02-16 Kent Paterson Mexico, Politics, Slider One comment

By Kent Paterson If outgoing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has accomplished anything during his five year plus

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