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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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The Latest Numbers

2017-06-01 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development 2 comments

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates for cities are out. According to their Quick Facts, the population of the City of

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City of Dust: Encino, New Mexico

2017-05-31 John Mulhouse City of Dust 58 comments

After the Depot I spend a lot of time on US Highway 60. Not only do I travel the road

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Tornado in Chihuahua

2017-05-31 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment

Rubio is the alias for Colonia Obregon, north of Cuahtemoc, where lately they’ve been having running gun battles in the

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Courthouse Update From Max Grossman

2017-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Dear Friends, I am writing to you to in order to clear up misconceptions about today’s hearing in the 201

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Which End of the Stick Do the Taxpayers Get?

2017-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 12 comments

Our friends on City Council today gave away another million dollars. From KVIA: Construction on a new $16 million development

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Drink Tequila, Lose Weight

2017-05-30 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

According to a report presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society: A sweetener created from the plant used

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But Wait . . .

2017-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 5 comments

According to KVIA, the judge in the case the City filed for a declaratory judgment has postponed the case till

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And the Verdict Is . . .

2017-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 3 comments

Tomorrow Today the City of El Paso goes to court in Austin to affirm their conviction that the arena they

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 4 – Beyond Thinking

2017-05-29 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Video Leave a comment

Here’s the final chapter of the Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds program. By now you’ve probably given away all your material

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I’ll Get To It Later

2017-05-29 GC Adams Uncategorized 3 comments

An old buddy lamented my lack of columns lately and mentioned that he enjoyed them. Which he’s enjoying, the columns

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 3 – The Serpent and the Lotus

2017-05-28 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Video Leave a comment

Sounds almost conjugal, doesn’t it? Well, it is. See Part 1 here. I’ll post the final episode tomorrow.

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Sunday Matinee: Immortals

2017-05-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a movie about Greek gods and mortals and a magic bow. Everything you could want in a movie except

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 2 – The Spiral

2017-05-27 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Video Leave a comment

Here’s more of the insubstantial substance of the universe. You can watch Part 1 here. Part 3 tomorrow.

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 1 – Akasha

2017-05-26 elrichiboy Art, Video One comment

Do you want to know the unknowable? You can’t. But here’s someone trying to scratch the surface. In four parts.

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“You’re Fired!”

2017-05-26 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Quality of Life Projects 3 comments

The El Paso Times reports today that mayoral candidate David Saucedo wants to fire the heads of the City’s permanent

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City of Dust: Chloride, New Mexico

2017-05-24 John Mulhouse City of Dust, What to Do Leave a comment

A Resurrection I’ll admit that many of the places I visit are run-down and lonesome and the tales tend to

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Arena Update From Max Grossman

2017-05-24 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 13 comments

Dear Friends, 2,452 El Pasoans cannot all be wrong! That is the number of citizens who signed our petition to

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The Devitalization of Downtown

2017-05-23 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 9 comments

Look at that map. I’ve highlighted the ballpark, the civic center, and the proposed site for the arena. I’m guessing

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UEFA Champions League Championship

2017-05-23 elrichiboy sports, What to Do Leave a comment

Heads Up! Real Madrid plays Juventus on Saturday, June 3, at 12:45 in the Finals of the UEFA Champions League.

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The City Strikes Again!

2017-05-22 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes One comment

I’m beginning to think that those Quality of Life bonds were nothing but a mammoth fraud. Look at this story

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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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