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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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  • Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”

    2026-04-19 elrichiboy
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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 Rich Wright

    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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City of Dust: San Antonio, New Mexico

2017-04-13 John Mulhouse City of Dust 6 comments

The Roots of Paris Hilton Around the turn of the 20th Century, a boy would walk from his father’s mercantile

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The Mayoral Candidates’ Alternate Universe: We’re Doomed

2017-04-13 elrichiboy Politics, The Arena 9 comments

The El Paso Times today reports on a debate among three of the mayoral candidates, sponsored by everyone’s favorite higher-tax

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The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2017-04-12 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Education, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for a the city with the second lowest per

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El Paso’s Alternate Universe

2017-04-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider One comment

Every week, there’s a surprising new story in the El Paso Inc. This week the frontpage story is headlined Montecillo

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Do Class Clowns Have Reunions?

2017-04-11 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

My childhood friend, Larry Zavala, asked if I was going to our high school reunion and sent me a link

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About El Chuqueño

2017-04-10 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

I’m not against change. Change is the natural state of the universe. Change is as inevitable as gravity. Or friction.

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Jepeto Solutions (with of Montreal) at Tricky Falls Tomorrow

2017-04-07 Fletcher Wright shows, What to Do Leave a comment

This Saturday, Jepeto Solutions will warm up the stage for of Montreal at Tricky Falls. Although it’s true that the

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Friday Short: Times Like Dying

2017-04-07 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment

Here’s a twenty minute Western about bank robbers and a consumptive sheriff. Check it out.

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I Lie When I Drink

2017-04-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

The incomparable Dale Watson. Check it out.

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Happy Birthday, Hag.

2017-04-06 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment

Merle Haggard would have turned 80 years old today if he hadn’t died last year on his 79th birthday. The

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Do You Smell Something?

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

Remember that 2012 Quality of Life bond election? That Bond Proposal movement was a juggernaut. I think they had three

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What’s it for, anyway?

2017-04-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Politics, The Arena 9 comments

I still have some questions about that Multipurpose Performing Arts Center. Like where and when to build it. I know

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It’s the Thought . . .

2017-04-03 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak (astronomers really need to get more creative with their names or, you know what, never mind, I’ll do

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Jarabe de Palo at Tricky Falls Tonight

2017-04-03 elrichiboy Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Jarabe de Palo is a Spanish rock band, and they’re everything you’d think a Spanish rock band should be, unless

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Día de San Ricardo

2017-04-03 elrichiboy Art, Opportunity! Leave a comment

Today, April 3, is the Día de San Ricardo, the patron saint of truck drivers, according to ElTestigoFiel.org. Tradition dictates

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That Explains It.

2017-04-03 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

The El Paso Inc. this week unwrapped the study that HKS Inc. did for the City of El Paso to

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Sunday Matinee: Hooligan

2017-04-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a entertaining documentary about the English disease: hooliganism. It seems that in the seventies and eighties, a certain element

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City of Dust: Duran, New Mexio

2017-03-31 John Mulhouse City of Dust 8 comments

The Last Hanging Crime Someday I’ll tell you a tale of a town that didn’t owe its very existence to

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The American Dream Index

2017-03-30 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s an article from Forbes that rates the 50 states according to the future and viability of their middle class.

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Make El Paso Great Again

2017-03-30 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Education Leave a comment

Lemme tell you how to get us out of that hole that the hubris of misguided city officials, at the

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