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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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Albuquerque Air Battles Rage: Politicians Nix Environmental Board, E Justice Regulation

2023-12-10 Kent Paterson Albuquerque, Slider, The Environment 6 comments

By Kent Paterson Promoting a tourism mystique, the marketers of Albuquerque, New Mexico, peddle images of clean skies, diverse culture

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Meta and EPEC

2023-12-06 elrichiboy City Management, El Paso Electric Company, Slider 2 comments

From ElPasoTimes.com, in case you’ve been dozing: Meta Platforms Inc., the company that operates Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp social media

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Today’s Dumpster Pic

2023-12-04 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Dumpsters, Ellen Smythe, Environmental Services Department 2 comments

When El Chuqueño talks, people listen. Or maybe not.

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Barrio Park Christmas Toy Giveaway.

2023-12-04 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

I’ve told you about Cruz Morales. He puts his heart and soul into Barrio Park, over there by the new

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Tortas de Cola de Pavo

2023-12-02 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

El Paso has Chico’s Tacos. Juarez has tortas de cola de pavo. Turkey tail sandwiches. Of course you can only

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Revelations About Government Censorship on Social Media

2023-12-01 elrichiboy Media, News, Slider 4 comments

This is story about news censorship, which surprisingly is not appearing in the media that are accused of news censorship.

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“Rio Grande Revisited: Backroads of Albuquerque”

2023-11-27 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Perspectives, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a radio documentary from frequent El Chuqueño contributer Kent Paterson. Join journalist Kent Paterson for a trip back and

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Richard Burton in “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold”

2023-11-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“How the World’s Smartest Criminals Were Caught By a Salami Sandwich”

2023-11-25 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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El Paso Has a Dumpster Problem

2023-11-21 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Ellen Smythe, Slider, The Environment 5 comments

I live by El Paso High. The official name of the subdivision is Alexander Heights, but no one calls it

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El Paso’s Highway Boondoggle

2023-11-19 Rich Wright Deck Park, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Widening I-10 Leave a comment

An alert reader hipped me to the Public Interest Research Group’s Fall 2023 publication Highway Boondoggles 8: Doubling Down on

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Marlene Dietrich in “The Blue Angel”

2023-11-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water

2023-11-13 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Elizabeth Triggs, Slider, TIRZs 2 comments

From the dead tree edition of the El Paso Inc.: Two years after it was rezoned from farm/ranch land to

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Rita Hayworth in “Gilda”

2023-11-12 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“What Eating the Rich did for Japan”

2023-11-11 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The Teflon Donna

2023-11-08 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, Corruption, Gassandrgate, Politics, Slider 2 comments

You read that the effort to recall District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez failed to get the 4,000+ signatures it would

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Press Release for Effort to Recall Cassandra Hernandez

2023-11-07 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Gassandrgate, Slider One comment
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Cary Grant in “People Will Talk”

2023-11-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles”

2023-11-04 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Sapphire”

2023-10-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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