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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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Curiouser and Curiouser

2016-12-12 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, The Arena 3 comments

Isn’t it weird that self-professed Chicano political blogger Jaime Abeytia is in favor of evicting the abuelitas from Duranguito so

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Cichon to D.C.?

2016-12-12 elrichiboy Politics Leave a comment

Do you ever shop at Albertson’s? I only shop there sometimes. I run in for a bottle of wine, maybe,

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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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El Chuqueño Lately

  • “Jealous Badge”
  • “The New ‘Oumuamua? Everything We Know So Far About 3I/Atlas”
  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One
  • “Cry Vegeance”
  • “The Officer Who Threw the Punch Isn’t the Problem. The Man Who Approved It Is.”

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