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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”

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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”

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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”

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“The Dark Past”

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“The man of the cliffs”

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BOHICA

2024-08-29 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Deck Park, Ricardo Samaniego, Slider 4 comments

If you liked the way the ballpark deal went down, you’re going to love the deck park. From CBS4Local.com: On

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Movin’ On Up

2024-08-28 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, News 3 comments

Rolando Pablos, the former CEO of the Borderplex Alliance, and former Texas Secretary of State, and maybe he had some

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“The City of El Paso’s Inflection Point and Public Safety Dilemma”

2024-08-28 Rich Wright El Paso Fire Department, El Paso Police Department, Slider Leave a comment

If you listen to all the politicians running for office, Public Safety is one of the top concerns for all

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Who Does Our State Delegation Represent?

2024-08-27 Rich Wright César Blanco, Claudia Ordaz, Deck Park, El Paso Delegation, Joe Moody, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 2 comments

Normally if voters wanted to derail TxDOT’s plans to widen the freeway through downtown El Paso, they could complain to

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Humphrey Bogart in “Sirocco”

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“The Man Who Lost Over a Billion Dollars”

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“La Señora” by Mariel la abogada featuring Emma Coronel

2024-08-23 elrichiboy Mexico, Music Leave a comment

InsightCrime.com reports that Mariel “la abogada” Colon was a lawyer for both Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera and his wife

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Food & Wine & Hatch Chiles

2024-08-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Well, it’s chile season. So FoodandWine.com has an article. Perhaps you’re wondering what all the fuss is about. They’re just

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Where Do Politicians Go After They Term Out?

2024-08-23 Rich Wright Elections, Gassandrgate, Politics, Slider 5 comments

Five days ago Isabel Salcido filed to run for Mayor. Twelve days ago I received a text message poll about

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Joyce Wilson Speaks (Again)

2024-08-22 Rich Wright Elections, Joyce Wilson, Politics, Slider One comment

Former City Manager Joyce Wilson is the gift that won’t stop giving. She wrote another letter to the El Paso

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Retrovision: “I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe”

2024-08-22 Rich Wright ballpark, Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT One comment

This post originally appeared on 2021-11-23. I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the

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The Deck Park

2024-08-20 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider One comment

Anyone who has been outside in the last four months should question the motives and judgment of the deck park

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U.S. Census Bureau: El Paso

2024-08-19 Rich Wright Economic Development, population, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a new page from the U.S. Census Bureau with the latest local info for data nerds. Highlights include Percentage

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“Raw Deal”

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“Investigating the Meth Superhighway”

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Low Rent Mayhem in Cruces

2024-08-11 elrichiboy Crime, Las Cruces, New Mexico, News One comment

Look at this crazy story from Las Cruces, via CBS4Local.com: A Santa Fe, N.M., murder suspect was arrested Saturday evening

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James Mason in “Odd Man Out”

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“Black Money: Inside the Shadowy World of International Bribery”

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