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  • “Jealous Badge”

    2026-05-17 elrichiboy
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  • “The New ‘Oumuamua? Everything We Know So Far About 3I/Atlas”

    2026-05-16 elrichiboy
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  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One

    2026-05-13 Kent Paterson

    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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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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Fine Dining a la Raramuri

2017-05-03 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 2 comments

There are thousands of places to eat in Juarez. Maybe tens of thousands. The barriers to entry are low. If

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Real Creams Atlético 3-0

2017-05-02 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, sports Leave a comment

It looked like Real had more players than Atlético. Christian Ronaldo scored all three goals. He makes big plays. Lionel

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The Rest of the World is Laughing at Us

2017-05-02 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Gratuitous Snark One comment

Remember when we got that Whole Foods? How everyone was some people were excited about it? Leave it to El

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He’s Such a Good Boy

2017-05-01 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

Did you see Mayor Oscar Leeser’s column in the El Paso Times this weekend? It has not even been a

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Champions League Semis Tuesday and Wednesday

2017-05-01 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, sports, What to Do Leave a comment

The first leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-finals takes place tomorrow and Wednesday at 12:45, like lunch dessert. The

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  • “Jealous Badge”
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  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One
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  • “The Officer Who Threw the Punch Isn’t the Problem. The Man Who Approved It Is.”

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