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  • “The Fat Man”

    2025-09-07 elrichiboy
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  • Taxes, Tax Breaks and a Texas Two-Step

    2025-09-05 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson You may or may not have heard about Project Jupiter by now. No, it’s not the latest scheme by Elon Musk to

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  • “He Ran All the Way”

    2025-08-31 elrichiboy
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  • “BARRIO AZTECA: Cartel Wars on the Texas Border”

    2025-08-30 elrichiboy
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  • Leave It to the D.A.

    2025-08-26 Rich Wright

    Here’s one of those stories from the El Paso Times that made the front page of the dead tree edition but you have to look

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  • Retrovision: El Paso Police Are Taser Happy and the El Paso Times Doesn’t Want You to Know It

    2025-08-25 Rich Wright

    This story originally appeared on 8 December 2022. Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of the El Paso Times: One

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  • “The Glass Wall”

    2025-08-24 elrichiboy
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  • “Cartels, Tariffs and Fentanyl, the US-Mexico Border Showdown Investigated | Foreign Correspondent”

    2025-08-23 elrichiboy
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  • Another Mental Health Crisis Homicide at the Hands of EPPD

    2025-08-23 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Police Department has a thing for killing people having mental health crises. Check out this latest body-cam video: The guy was asking

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  • An Economic Forecast

    2025-08-22 Rich Wright

    Here’s part of an editorial from El Diario de Juarez:1 Ayer informamos que, a tasa mensual, la producción de la maquila en Ciudad Juárez cayó

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  • The Purge is Coming

    2025-08-21 Rich Wright

    Here’s a video about McAllen, Texas. El Paso might not be next, but it’s on the list.

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  • “Mister 880”

    2025-08-17 elrichiboy
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Yul Brynner in “Port of New York”

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Gregory Peck in “I Walk the Line”

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“Ma Barker and Her Crime Family”

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“I Love Trouble”

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“The Ninja: The Real Shadow Warriors Of Medieval Japan”

2024-03-16 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Why We Can’t Build an Arena in the Rail Yard by City Hall

2024-03-12 Rich Wright Joyce Wilson, Liar Liar, Slider, The Arena One comment

Seems like the perfect location, right? Big. Mostly vacant. Downtown. But Union Pacific won’t deal with the City. Why not?

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Joe T. Hodo – “Padre Solalinde / Las Patronas”

2024-03-11 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo, Video Leave a comment
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“Key Witness”

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“The Celts: The Mysterious Dark Age Masters Of Europe”

2024-03-09 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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About the New Venue

2024-03-08 Rich Wright ballpark, City Council, Joyce Wilson, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Y’all ain’t playin’ the long game. Some people (you know who you are) want to derail the proposed hybrid, inside-outside

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“Joe T. Hodo con rezos enlatados”

2024-03-04 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo, Video One comment
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Mexico’s Mega Elections: The Time of Women

2024-03-04 Kent Paterson Mexico, Politics, Slider Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson Amid bots, bombast and border bullying, Mexico’s general election campaign kicked off March 1. An estimated 98.9

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A Message From the Border

2024-03-03 Rich Wright Immigration, Mexico, Migration, Slider 2 comments

Check out this letter that appeared in the New York Times print edition, and on NYTImes.com: To the Editor: Re

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Humphrey Bogart in “In a Lonely Place”

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Historical Spanish

2024-03-03 Rich Wright Uncategorized Leave a comment

From NYTimes.com: In most of the Spanish-speaking world, the principal ways to say “you” are the casual “tú,” and the

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“The Spy Who Saved D-Day”

2024-03-02 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Business as Usual

2024-02-29 Rich Wright El Paso County, Law Enforcement, Sheriff, Slider 3 comments

This story by Elida Perez on ElPasoMatters.com reveals that 4 of the 5 candidates for the Democrat nomination for Sheriff

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A Homegrown City Manager?

2024-02-27 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Joyce Wilson, Oscar Leeser, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Two weeks ago City Council rejected Mayor Oscar Leeser’s proposal to restrict the search for a City Manager to locals.

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More From Joyce

2024-02-26 Rich Wright Arrogance, City Council, Joyce Wilson, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Here’s another email that disgraced former City Manager Joyce Wilson sent to Mayor Oscar Leeser: Since the 2012 Quality of

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Impact Fees, Annunciation House, and Tropicana Homes

2024-02-26 Rich Wright Politics, Slider One comment

Here’s an great article from Diego Mendoza-Moyers at ElPasoMatters.com about the subsidies El Paso taxpayers give to local home builders.

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