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  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One

    2026-05-13 elrichiboy

    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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“DO YOU NEED A LIE DETECTOR TEST AND WANT TO BE ON TV?”

2017-07-31 elrichiboy teevee Leave a comment

“Honey, guess what? We’re going to be on Maury Popvich!” The words every husband/wife wants to hear. I found this

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Grit

2017-07-31 elrichiboy Economic Development, Education, Video Leave a comment

Here’s Angela Lee Duckworth talking about grit, the power of passion and perseverance. Check it out.

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s 39 Steps

2017-07-30 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here is Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 classic The 39 Steps. Watch this video on YouTube Wikipedia reports that the director’s cameo

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Atomic Blonde Trailer

2017-07-28 elrichiboy Now Playing Leave a comment

If you wanted to go see a movie in a theater, here’s a movie that’s playing in theaters. If it

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Retrovision: It’s Only (Your) Money

2017-07-28 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, The Arena 2 comments

This article originally appeared on March 28, 2016. Remember when the machine was pitching those Quality of Life bonds? Some

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City of Dust: Negra, New Mexico

2017-07-27 John Mulhouse City of Dust 11 comments

Paying a Visit to the Williams It’s time to head south out of House, New Mexico, drop down off the

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Peter Dinklage on Passion

2017-07-27 elrichiboy Art, Video Leave a comment

Here’s the speech Tyrion Lannister gave to Bennington College’s Class of 2012. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.

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Make El Paso a Bastion of Passion

2017-07-26 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider 4 comments

El Paso’s a poor town, and we’re not getting any richer. That’s just a fact. We’re at the absolute bottom

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We’re Not Last!

2017-07-25 elrichiboy Education 2 comments

Here’s a list from everybody’s favorite click-bait list creator. WalletHub did a study of the most and least educated MSAs

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All That Was

2017-07-25 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube Memories are fickle things. I can have a conversation and struggle to remember something from

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The City Budget is Fake

2017-07-25 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes One comment

Or at least extremely conservative. The proposed budget show sales tax revenues declining by $525,000. El Paso hasn’t experienced a

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U2 on YouTube in El Paso

2017-07-24 elrichiboy Art, Music, Video Leave a comment

Here’s a music video with sparse oblique references to our fair city. I’ve got Tony Lama, Asarco, and freeway signs.

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Sunday Matinee: Deadlier Than the Male

2017-07-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 3 comments

Here’s Elke Sommer, before she was a Bond girl, as a psychotic murderer for a master criminal. Actually, it’s not

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Friday Short: A Great Day in Harlem

2017-07-21 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment

Here’s a great documentary I found on somebody’s Facebook. (You know who you are.) It features all the jazz greats

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We’re Zigging When We Should Be Zagging

2017-07-21 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects 2 comments

Our city leaders have been ostensibly pursuing strategies that lead to economic development. If that’s their real goal, then they’re

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Alberto Halpern GoFundMe Account

2017-07-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

As you know, Alberto “Beto” Halpern was seriously hurt in a car accident three days after his wedding and three

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The Ouija Speaks!

2017-07-20 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics, Slider 2 comments

My Ouija board says they’re all shook up in the halls of power around here. Not about the court’s decision

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Maths

2017-07-18 elrichiboy Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 5 comments

Let’s see. $66 million in Certificates of Obligation raises the average residential tax bill $50 a year. So issuing $180

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Doña Ana County Jail Director Busted For Pot

2017-07-17 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Did you read that the Doña Ana County Jail Director got busted for pot? From the Las Cruces Sun Times:

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The Beat Goes On

2017-07-17 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Did you read this weekend’s El Paso Inc.? It’s pretty good. Here’s the lede from one story: What began as

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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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