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  • Beasts of Burden

    2025-07-14 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright He wears a pistol on his ankle and carries a condom in his billfold. He never uses either one. The pistol weighs

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  • The Great Trumpini

    2025-07-13 Rich Wright

    From a July 12, 2025 article at APNews.com:  President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he’s levying tariffs of 30% against the European Union and Mexico starting Aug. 1, a

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  • July 12 Border Policy Protest Planned for Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

    2025-07-09 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Under the slogan “Humanize Don’t Militarize,” New Mexico and Texas activists intend to put their constitutional rights into practice this coming Saturday,

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  • Dystopia, USA

    2025-07-08 Rich Wright

    Imagine masked U.S. government agents kidnapping people off the street and sending them to concentration camps. Dystopian fiction? Nah. It’s happening today, in these United

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  • Immigration and Detention Witness

    2025-07-07 Xavier Miranda

    by Xavier Miranda I spent the morning of Friday, June 20,  at the U. S. Courthouse in downtown El Paso, TX observing the Immigration Court

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  • Watching the Watchers

    2025-07-02 Rich Wright

    I told you about the Torre Centinela that’s going up in downtown Juarez. Well, Juarez isn’t the only city in Mexico with a Sentinel System.

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  • EPEC’s Rate Increase

    2025-06-30 Rich Wright

    In this ElPasoMatters.com post, Diego Mendoza-Myers writes about EPEC’s plans to build out its system and what that means for EPEC’s customers. The El Paso

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  • “Intrigue”

    2025-06-29 elrichiboy
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  • “Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

    2025-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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  • “The Spider”

    2025-06-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

    2025-06-21 elrichiboy
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Glasbox Speakeasy Show: Ross Fleming and Omar Cuellar

2016-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized, What to Do Leave a comment

Tonight at the Glasbox: Ross Fleming and Omar Cuellar play a Speakeasy show. I dug up a video or Mr.

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Retrovision: Sanctuary

2016-12-10 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on June 6, 2012. Just like drinking at home I went to my favorite bar last

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Mexican Boxer Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. Murdered in Guadalajara

2016-12-09 elrichiboy Mexico Leave a comment

Mexican boxer Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. was found murdered in a jeep near his home in Guadalajara this morning. Mr. Gonzalez

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College Ultimate: UNC vs. Pitt

2016-12-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here are 28 minutes of two of the best pretty good college Ultimate teams in the country duking it out

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Juarez Sunday Afternoon

2016-12-09 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

I’m sitting in a cowhide chair at a cowhide table in the Mariachi Bar, just off Avenida Juarez, a block

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The Latest Dope on Drinking in Juarez

2016-12-08 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

El Diario reports that, starting today, the bars and restaurants and grocery stores that sell alcohol in Juarez will be

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Unreliable?

2016-12-08 Reesa Turner Navel Gazing One comment

A lifetime ago, some idiot with a Napoleon complex tried to paint me out in black and white…you’re too much

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Breaking News

2016-12-08 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Downtown, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

I know reason and common sense have no place in local government, but I found out some things that I

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La Puerta Siga Cerrado

2016-12-07 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

The Kentucky Club is still closed after denying admittance to the governor of the Raramuri community in Juarez in November.

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Why can’t they just talk to us like we’re adults?

2016-12-07 elrichiboy City Council, The Arena One comment

Opposition to the arena is pretty widespread. At least, opposition to putting it in the proposed location. Texas State Senator

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Here. Now.

2016-12-07 GC Adams Uncategorized 2 comments

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FCnEyK8DE8&w=560&h=315] The amount of stuff I record and delete is stupid. I recorded this yesterday and was about to

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The City’s War on Small Business

2016-12-07 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider 4 comments

God bless those nice people in city government. They are completely clueless. Here’s a letter to the editor of the

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Buenas Noticias?

2016-12-06 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

According to multiple news sources, the Congress of the State of Chihuahua has approved a change in the law that

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Snake Pit

2016-12-06 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Uncategorized 3 comments

Remember when you were four or five, and you found out that Santa Claus was just a character invented by

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Surprise! Electric Rates Going Up

2016-12-05 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development 3 comments

Here’s more good news for El Pasoans. According to this story from El Paso’s finest English language daily, electric rates

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A Perfect World: The Mennonite Colonies of Chihuahua

2016-12-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Mexico One comment

Here’s a locally relevant documentary about a couple of Mennonite colonies just down the road from here in Chihuahua. I

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What’s the Rush?

2016-12-05 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 7 comments

Why is City Council in such a hurry to build an arena? Well, City Council won’t tell us, so I

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El Guero de Acero on El Late Night

2016-12-04 elrichiboy Juarez, Navel Gazing 2 comments

For your viewing pleasure. Or not. People were a lot more open before everyone was packing a video recorder, and

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Is it brain drain or a diaspora?

2016-12-03 elrichiboy Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Former El Pasoan Mark Mendel is a big player on a small wing of the world stage. From Torrent Freak:

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Hope Riot with Robert Holguin

2016-12-02 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

It’s a tribute. I think.

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