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  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”

    2026-05-31 elrichiboy
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  • “Impossible Places: World’s Most Extreme Corners on Earth”

    2026-05-30 elrichiboy
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  • “Blackout”

    2026-05-24 elrichiboy
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  • “Sevres & Sykes–Picot: How the Middle East Was Divided”

    2026-05-23 elrichiboy
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  • Memories, Reflections and Connections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part Two

    2026-05-20 Kent Paterson

    Feature photo: Mercedes Doretti of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team addresses the Las Cruces gathering. (Photo by Cynthia Bejarano) Convened on the 20th anniversary of

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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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I’m taking a mulligan.

2016-08-19 elrichiboy Economic Development, Taxes One comment

Yesterday I dropped the ball. Occasional commenter Henry offered this in response to my post about the popular exodus from

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The Truth About the EPISD Bond Proposal

2016-08-18 elrichiboy Politics, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

The El Paso Independent School District is asking voters to approve a $669 million bond. (I bet it was $666

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Juan Mexicano Arrested in Chicago

2016-08-18 elrichiboy Media Leave a comment

That’s what the Chicago Tribune says: Bail was set at $1 million Tuesday for a Addison man after Elgin Police,

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Things are heating up in Juarez.

2016-08-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

My favorite Juarez news source La Polaka reports that there have been 29 murders so far this month in Juarez,

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People also vote with their feet.

2016-08-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, School Districts 10 comments

According to this estimate provided by the City of El Paso, El Paso County population was 833,487 in 2014. For

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Manufacturing Consent

2016-08-18 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes, Uncategorized Leave a comment

The EPISD School Board claims that recommending less than what the Bond Committee asked for would be “disrespecting” the committee.

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It’s Almost Good.

2016-08-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, How to Live in El Paso 2 comments

El Paso is beautiful. The mountains. The sky. My wife. (That’s not her in the mural.) And the art. Especially

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Surprise!

2016-08-17 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Taxes Leave a comment

Well, there it is. The El Paso Times reports that the University Medical Center, overseen by the El Paso County

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I’m Too Clever by Half

2016-08-17 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Taxes 2 comments

Fellow blogger Mr. Jaime Abeytia informed me, via a response to a comment I made on his blog and through

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Did they, or didn’t they?

2016-08-16 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Politics, Taxes 2 comments

Did the Commissioners Court publish their intent to raise their salaries in a local newspaper of general circulation? Because according

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There’s nothing wrong with El Paso . . .

2016-08-16 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Media, Politics, School Districts 2 comments

that can’t be fixed with higher taxes and bigger government bureaucracies. Am I right?

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What does the Times Think?

2016-08-15 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Media 4 comments

Don’t you suppose that it’s the duty of the preeminent English-language newspaper to give voice to their opinion on the

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Stacking the Deck So Everyone Loses

2016-08-15 elrichiboy Economic Development, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

Do you reckon that the El Paso Independent School District will put mobile voting stations in their high schools the

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The El Paso Times: Duplicitous, or Grossly Incompetent?

2016-08-14 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Media, Politics, Taxes 5 comments

Like every other sentient being in the Mexoplex, you have probably wondered if the El Paso Times is biased or

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Did you drop the soap?

2016-08-11 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Taxes 5 comments

Did you hear that the County Commissioners voted to give themselves a $26,569 annual pay increase? “I think it was

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Count Your Blessings

2016-08-09 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes One comment

The El Paso Independent School District is asking voters to approve a $600 million bond because of declining enrollment. Think

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Obey

2016-08-08 elrichiboy Media, Politics 2 comments

With Hindi (I think) subtitles.

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And Champagne in the Cafeterias

2016-08-07 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes, Uncategorized 3 comments

The El Paso Times reports that this year every EPISD high school student will be issued a laptop. Are you

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Term Limits

2016-07-26 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Taxes One comment

Term limits are a good idea. If you are special interests promoting a certain agenda. Because once a politician has

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Where the Sun Don’t Shine

2016-07-15 elrichiboy City Council, How to Live in El Paso 3 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Times, the El Paso Electric Company (EPEC) may soon engage in rolling

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  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”
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