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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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  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela

    2026-04-09 elrichiboy

    If you are interested in the Torre Centinela that is almost fully operational in downtown Ciudad Juárez, then you should read this story from RestOfWorld.org.

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  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

    2026-04-05 elrichiboy
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  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”

    2026-04-03 Rich Wright

    (Scene: Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon.) Secretary Pete Hegseth: . . . and that, gentlemen, is how we will end this war.

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  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

    2026-03-31 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Data centers are a burning issue in the Paso del Norte borderland of 2026. Plans to open a giant data center complex

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  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

    2026-03-22 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martinez Given the recent disturbing revelations about Cesar Chávez, it seems certain that the local Border Highway’s name will be changed.  Many

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  • “Hangover Square”

    2026-03-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Rise and Ruin of the Coca-Cola Family”

    2026-03-21 elrichiboy
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Sunday Matinee: The Challenger

2017-05-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a boxing movie. It’s pretty good. Check it out.

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Chicano Music Verse 2: Freddy Fender

2017-05-13 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment

Here’s the second part of the Chicano music story, featuring Freddy Fender. Check it out. Image by Gene Pugh (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gtpugh/5022122488/)

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Bug Juice

2017-05-12 elrichiboy Art, What to Do 2 comments

A new exhibit opens at the El Paso Museum of Art today. Titled The Red That Colored the World, the

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Aye Nako at Monarch Tonight (like right now)

2017-05-12 Fletcher Wright Music, shows, What to Do One comment

There’s another free show going down at your neighborhood watering hole, Monarch, this Saturday the 13th. The ever-eclectic Denim Vest

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What to Do Tonight

2017-05-12 elrichiboy Music, What to Do One comment

I’ve never seen this band. I’ve never been to this bar. But it looks cool. Mama Crystal and the Horns

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Corruption, Or What?

2017-05-11 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

Did you read that Mayoral candidate David Saucedo made allegations of corruption, and District 6 Representative Claudia Ordaz refuted them?

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Retrovision: El Paso is an Elephant

2017-05-10 elrichiboy Politics, Retrovision 3 comments

This post originally appeared on April 20, 2015. We’re like the three blind men who were presented with an elephant.

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Chicano Music

2017-05-10 elrichiboy Art, Music, Video Leave a comment

Here’s a short video about the Chicano influence on Latin Music. Check it out.

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David Ogilvy’s Advice

2017-05-09 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council Leave a comment

David Ogilvy is known as the father of advertising. He founded the ad agency Ogilvy and Mathers. Here’s some advice

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Champions League Semis Today

2017-05-09 elrichiboy sports, What to Do Leave a comment

Today is a day-drinking kind of day. Yesterday Juventus beat Monaco 2-1, to make the aggregate 4-1. They will play

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Depositions Are Where the Fun’s At

2017-05-09 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

If the City doesn’t get a declaratory judgement at this next hearing, and if the lawsuit goes to trial, then

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El Paso Times Covers the Arena Lawsuit. Sort Of.

2017-05-08 elrichiboy City Council, Media, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

The El Paso Times finally got around to covering the lawsuit over the arena this weekend. The story came out

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Sunday Matinee: My War

2017-05-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a Chinese war movie about the Korean War, where the Chinese are the good guys, and the bad guys

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City of Dust: Dawson, New Mexico

2017-05-06 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

Way Down in the Mines It’s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew; Where the dangers are double

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At The Drive-In at the Coliseum

2017-05-05 Fletcher Wright Art, How to Live in El Paso, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Hometown heroes At the Drive-in will return this Saturday to play a gig at the County Coliseum, bringing along with

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Our Salvation Is At Hand.

2017-05-05 elrichiboy City Council, Gratuitous Snark 7 comments

Boy, it’ll be good when that trolley gets finished so our traffic problems will be over. Ha ha. Just kidding.

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The Arena Cold War

2017-05-04 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, The Arena Leave a comment

Here’s an email I got from Max Grossman this afternoon. Dear Friends, This is to inform you that the City

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Tolbert Cashes In

2017-05-04 elrichiboy Politics, The Arena 2 comments

A story in the El Paso Times says that District 2 Representative Jim Tolbert received big donations from two of

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Her Name’s Earth, My Name’s Greg and We’re Polluted

2017-05-04 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Isn’t it funny how there’s nothing funny about feeling funny or having a funny feeling? I have a funny feeling

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About Those QoL Bonds: A Retrospective

2017-05-04 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

Let’s put it in perspective. In 2012, El Paso was enjoying a singular moment. Fort Bliss was benefitting from Bass

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