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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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What’s that smell?

2015-11-03 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Politics 3 comments

Sometimes, when I read the El Paso Times, I wonder if they think we’re all stupid of if they’re just

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Who Are These ‘Young Professionals’?

2015-11-02 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development One comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? The city is seeking proposals for an urban mixed-use, high-rise

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Addiction

2015-10-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

Here’s a thought provoking video about the causes of addiction. I found it on the interwebs. Innersting, huh?

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Give Us the Future

2015-10-28 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

Maybe you haven’t been paying attention. Maybe you’ve been frittering your time away, worried about life’s mundane details like putting

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2025

2015-10-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development, Media, Politics 4 comments

What will El Paso look like in ten years? Who knows? But you can bet that it will look different.

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Start Worrying

2015-10-26 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Media, Politics 2 comments

According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, El Paso’s employment fell from 322,863 in August, 2013 to

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Stop Worrying

2015-10-26 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, It's All Good, Media, Politics Leave a comment

Didn’t you get the memo? It’s All Good.

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Media Manipulation

2015-10-23 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Media 2 comments

Update, 9:23, 23 Oct 2015: I went by the Franklin Apartments today and it looked like they’ve done some dirt

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News From Ciudad Juarez

2015-10-22 elrichiboy Juarez, Media Leave a comment

I’m not the only one who knows where the best place to hole up is. JUÁREZ, MEXICO—In an effort to

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The Cone of Silence

2015-10-22 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Politics One comment

At Tuesdays City Council meeting, you will recall, our elected officials decided, in Executive Session, to give the City Manager

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Deja Vu All Over Again

2015-10-21 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Politics One comment

More good news from the fine folks down at City Hall. Our elected officials have abdicated their responsibility to be

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Good News from Mexico

2015-10-20 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez One comment

Great news, everybody! According to this story in El Diario, Chihuahua is sitting on one of the largest shale gas

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Jailing Poor People

2015-10-17 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Remember that story about El Paso Municipal Court judges sending poor people to jail because they can’t pay their traffic

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The More Things Change

2015-10-16 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement, Media, Politics 4 comments

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times about our local gendarmerie apprehending a wanted fugitive? The El

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Well, There It Is

2015-10-15 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Politics 6 comments

The sociopaths running the city have decided that we’re getting a downtown arena, whether we need it or not. They

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How to Live in El Paso: AM 1060

2015-10-12 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

It’s nice to have someone curate the music for you. And someone over there at AM 1060 is curating great

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Joe Ely at Bowie Feathers Tonight

2015-10-08 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso One comment

Doors at 7:00, show at 8:00. See you there.

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More Ink in the National Press

2015-10-08 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement, Media 3 comments

Here’s a story on Buzzfeed, which prominently features El Paso: Levi Lane shuffled into the pews of the El Paso

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Is El Paso run by sociopaths?

2015-10-06 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 6 comments

According to this blog on the website PsychCentral.com, here are six defining characteristics of sociopaths: Six Signs of a Sociopath

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How to Live in El Paso: Joe Ely at Bowie Feathers

2015-10-03 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 3 comments

Legendary Texas troubadour Joe Ely performs at Bowie Feathers on Thursday, October 8. Once upon a life I ran a

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

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