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  • Earl Grant “Autumn Leaves”

    2025-07-18 elrichiboy
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  • La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez

    2025-07-17 Rich Wright

    You’d have to be older than I am to remember La Fiesta in downtown Juarez, and I’m pretty old. La Fiesta used to be a

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  • Roaming Free in Mexico: How Will the Wolf Survive?

    2025-07-15 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson A Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) of undetermined sex was captured on camera roaming the back country of the Sierra Madre

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  • Beasts of Burden

    2025-07-14 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright He wears a pistol on his ankle and carries a condom in his billfold. He never uses either one. The pistol weighs

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  • The Great Trumpini

    2025-07-13 Rich Wright

    From a July 12, 2025 article at APNews.com:  President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he’s levying tariffs of 30% against the European Union and Mexico starting Aug. 1, a

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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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Yeah, that will really work.

2015-05-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a story from Marty Schladen, writing in the El Paso Times: The director of the Texas Department of Public

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El Paso: Not like the Movies

2015-05-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

“Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable”. E.K. Hornbeck (Gene

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Where you stand and where you sit

2015-05-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I went to a birthday party for the daughter of a friend of mine last week. I started talking to

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How To Live in El Paso: Valentina Hot Sauce

2015-05-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Am I right? I mean, it’s not the same as that special salsa you make, with the grilled and raw

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Hey, we’re on Twitter!

2015-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Whatever that is. @elchuqueno Did I do that right?

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The El Paso Times vs. the PSB

2015-05-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times Editorial Board came out against the Public Service Board’s new franchise fee, now that the PSB

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Did you just hear something . . .

2015-05-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

hit the fan? No, not yet? Just you wait.

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Idle Speculation

2015-05-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In this story in this week’s El Paso Inc., (the one about River Oaks putting its downtown properties up for

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A Big Day in Whoville

2015-05-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For those of you who were wondering what to celebrate, or maybe what you were already celebrating.

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Maybe we’re the stupid ones.

2015-05-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Hell, if going broke is inevitable, we might as well spend our last paycheck on fancy doodads that can’t get

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We get the government we deserve.

2015-05-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

The El Paso Times Editorial Board weighed in on the significance of the recent election results. El Paso’s voters sent

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Legal Pot in Texas?

2015-05-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Some of my homies have been telling me that legal is right around the corner. From the Houston Chronicle Online:

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El Paso vs. Art

2015-05-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized 6 comments

Maybe you’ve heard the chatter on your social media accounts about the City eighty-sixing Margarita Cabrera’s sculpture from the roundabout

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We Deserve Better

2015-05-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

This story in the Sun Shopper, er, I mean the El Paso Times, by ace reporter Aaron Martinez leaves a

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Downtown Development? Thank Jim Scherr

2015-05-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

The talk around the water cooler is that the owners of those new boutique hotels were motivated by the success

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The Unintended Consequences of Branding

2015-05-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Do you remember when Sun Metro used to be called Sun City Area Transit? They had to change it because

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Armed Home Invaders Kill 22 Year Old Man in Front of His Mother

2015-05-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Can you imagine if the victims had their own Public Information Officer, or spokesperson, who was pampered by a lap-dog

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Limited Time Offer

2015-05-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

I know downtown Juarez like a sailor knows the sea. This isn’t some rowdy, drunken, staggering frat fest. At least,

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Wouldn’t it be cool if any of this story were true?

2015-05-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from respected internet portal Overpasses For America detailing how a bunch of Minutemen detained two men with

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Just relax.

2015-05-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Maybe you heard about the burglary suspect who was shot by El Paso Police in his home, in front of

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