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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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Meth in Juarez

2017-02-16 elrichiboy Juarez One comment

Here’s a story from the Albuquerque Journal that sheds some light on the recent spate of killings in Ciudad Juarez:

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The Arena: The Word on the Street

2017-02-16 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, The Arena Leave a comment

The word on the street is that the City is already buying land in Duranguito, and they’re offering “an obscene

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Blue Demon Jr. vs. The Border Patrol

2017-02-15 elrichiboy Art, Media, sports One comment

Here’s a cool video from the New York Times about an event that takes place occasionally in California farming communities.

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City of Dust: Taiban, New Mexico

2017-02-15 John Mulhouse City of Dust 10 comments

Whiskey and the Devil Taiban is known for its old Presbyterian Church, a lonely, gutted house of worship visited by

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Oh, that smell.

2017-02-15 elrichiboy Politics, School Districts One comment

You may have missed this story from the El Paso Times. I was only alerted to it by a comment

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Valentine’s Money-Making Opportunity

2017-02-14 elrichiboy Opportunity! Leave a comment

Before I was an internet publishing magnate I had this money-making idea: I’d go to one of the swank restaurants

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La Fiesta

2017-02-14 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 6 comments

This week I got to go into La Fiesta. La Fiesta is located at the corner of Mariscal and Segundo

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

2017-02-14 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

I saw this guy hustling Valentine’s Day cards at Monarch last night. He draws the illustrations and writes the jokes.

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What has the Chamber of Commerce Done for You?

2017-02-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

In most communities, you would expect the Chamber of Commerce to oppose tax increases on businesses. Welcome to Bizarro-World, where

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David Stout is a Hero.

2017-02-13 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Politics, The Arena 6 comments

The rest of Commissioners Court, not so much. Today Precinct 2 Commissioner David Stout asked Commissioners Court to consider a

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I Won the Lottery

2017-02-13 elrichiboy Art, Navel Gazing One comment

Here’s a video that should make you enjoy your life. I won the lottery, and so did you.

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Updated: City Council’s ‘Secret’ Meeting

2017-02-13 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider One comment

As Brutus reported on ElPasoSpeak, City Council will have a special meeting this Wednesday February 16 at 8 a.m. [Apparently

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Sunday Matinee: Foolproof

2017-02-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a 2003 heist movie starring Ryan Reynolds and Kristen Booth, whoever they are. 2003 looks so historic these days.

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This post has bad words.

2017-02-10 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, The Arena 4 comments

If you’re easily offended by bad language, you should go somewhere else. Here’s a lesson for our the County Commissioners

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Letter from Max Grossman

2017-02-09 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Politics, The Arena 17 comments

Dear Friends, Much to our surprise, Bernie Sargent and I were not reappointed to the El Paso County Historical Commission

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Good News, for the Schadenfreude Inclined

2017-02-08 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court Leave a comment

There’s no work. People are losing their jobs. Scaling back expectations. Well, it’s not just you. Even the high rollers

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Devil Worship?

2017-02-08 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it One comment

Have you seen this pentagram in front of the County Courthouse? It’s funny. They don’t act like good Satanists.

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Mariachi El Bronx

2017-02-07 elrichiboy Art Leave a comment

Here’s a video from a band called Mariachi El Bronx. From Wikipedia: The Bronx is an American hardcore punk band

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La Esquina de Chihuas

2017-02-07 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

There’s a new bar on the Strip, and it’s closer to the bridge than every other bar except La Cucaracha.

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Oh, the Hypocrisy.

2017-02-07 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

I guess you heard that the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the El Paso County Historical Commission were not reappointed. From

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  • “The Officer Who Threw the Punch Isn’t the Problem. The Man Who Approved It Is.”

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