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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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  • “The First Livestreamed Genocide”

    2025-06-21 Rich Wright

    From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves.

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  • I Don’t Like Bullies

    2025-06-20 Rich Wright

    On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not bullies anymore.” Wait a minute.

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reopening day at the kentucky

Okay. Exhale.

2016-09-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Last night I had a horrible dream. I dreamt that the taxman had closed the Kentucky Club, and Donald Trump

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Say it ain’t so!

2016-09-20 elrichiboy Juarez 2 comments

La Polaka reports that the tax man has closed the Kentucky Club because they owe taxes! Woe is me! The

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The Long Way Home

2016-09-20 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

Brutus over at ElPasoSpeak.com posted some illuminating information yesterday. A developer intends to build a high rise hotel on land

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$668 Million, and For What?

2016-09-19 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes 2 comments

I know many of us are curious about what, exactly, the El Paso Independent School District would do with $668

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Election 2016

2016-09-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments
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Entre Otros

2016-09-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

The tirilones aren’t the only guys in Juarez who dress for effect.

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Tin Tan Vive

2016-09-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Tirilones rock zoot suits on the dieciseis pedestrian mall on Sunday.

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Fiesta Juarez

2016-09-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Friday night I went to the Fiesta Juarez. Through some monumental clerical error I got into the VIP area. I

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Sunday Matinee: Sword of the Beast

2016-09-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This is a great Western. It’s so far west, it’s set in Japan. A solitary wandering gun (sword) man, chased

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This Just In: It’s Not All Good

2016-09-17 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Media, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

In an uncharacteristic manifestation of candor, the El Paso Times today ran a story on property taxes. Let me say

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Proper Printshop’s Art en Vivo, 15.9.16

2016-09-15 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Today’s Thursday, and that means that our friends at Proper Printshop are having another printing party. Tonight’s artists are Proper’s

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The Slippery Slope

2016-09-14 elrichiboy Politics, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

If you’re a politician, you probably want to do what’s right. Unless you’re a callow, power-hungry, self-serving sociopath who’s crazed

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Every Kinda People by Los Cenzontles

2016-09-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Flashback: San Jerónimo: Laboratory of Our Future

2016-09-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez 2 comments

In light of current developments, maybe it’s time to revisit this post, which originally appeared on El Chuqueño on July

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Noche Bohemia

2016-09-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider 2 comments

A two-thirds moon hung in a cloud dappled sky. It was the night side of dusk when I crossed the

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More Screen Time!

2016-09-13 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes 7 comments

Those nice people at the El Paso Independent School District, the ones who want to stick their hands a little

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Utopia or Dystopia?

2016-09-13 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

A hyper-vigilant reader turned me on to this story about an impending development in Santa Teresa: London Design Biennale 2016:

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Hillary’s Body Double?

2016-09-12 elrichiboy Politics 2 comments

I don’t want to pick sides in this election, but there’s something to this theory. After suffering a collapse at

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There’s Plenty of Blame to Go Around

2016-09-12 elrichiboy National Policy, Politics Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting perspective on September 11 and the War on Terror, from the Nation: On the morning of September

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Vaginal Delivery: $166.67

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

With a FEMAP membership, having a baby via the traditional method only costs $3000 Mexican pesos, or $166.67 U.S. dollars

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