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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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White King Puto

2015-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m thinking the branding company didn’t perform due diligence seeing how this product name translated into other cultural contexts. Or

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Deflate-gate Started in 2007

2015-01-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here is an extremely interesting analysis of the New England Patriots recent seasons, which seems to indicate that maybe the

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Hotel Occupancy Rates Up for 2014, Maybe

2015-01-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Times, local hotel occupancy was up last year. El Paso’s hotel occupancy

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“Don’t Fix City Budget With More PSB Fees”

2015-01-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

That’s the headline from a guest column in this week’s El Paso Inc. It was written by outgoing board member

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A Penthouse in the Heart of Downtown

2015-01-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

One of El Paso’s reclusive millionaires has a penthouse in downtown El Paso. I’ve always wondered what it looked like,

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Expect Less

2015-01-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Billionaire Jeff Greene is taking lots of flack for saying “America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to

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Border Patrol Shoots, Kills Man Who Drove Through Sierra Blanca Checkpoint

2015-01-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Those Border Patrol checkpoints can be deadly. This story came from KURV710, Fox News Radio: The U.S. Border Patrol says

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Go to Mexico

2015-01-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Travel in Mexico is great. The country is beautiful, the culture is rich, and the dollar is strong. A decent

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NY Speaker Arrested for Corruption. Is Texas Next?

2015-01-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

This from the Associated Press: New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested Thursday on public corruption charges and accused

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Don’t Blame the Bigs

2015-01-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s not fair to lay the blame for El Paso’s recent poor performance on lists like Milken’s Best Performing Cities,

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Where are the Good Cops?

2015-01-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from CounterCurrentNews.com. “If you snitch, your career is done,” one officer told him. He eventually became public

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Is El Paso Safe? Not According to NASCAR Driver Kurt Bucsh

2015-01-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story on Delaware Online: Once, he [Kurt Busch] said, they were in El Paso, Texas, where [Busch’s

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Be Careful Out There

2015-01-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Maybe you haven’t got your tickets yet for Rick Springfield’s concert at the Plaza Theatre on March 6. But if

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If there are Good Cops, then how can there be Bad Cops?

2015-01-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

You always hear that, that not every cop is bad. But wouldn’t good cops arrest bad cops? Don’t good cops

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She’s Like a Tibetan Monk

2015-01-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

In a selfless act of political immolation, City Representative Cortney Niland threw her aspirations for continued public service on the

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In Defense of the Local Media

2015-01-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Hey, times are hard in the print industry. You can only tighten your belt so much before you have to

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VS

2015-01-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Coming Soon: Will Ballpark-gate Ruin Rick Perry’s White House Run?

2014-12-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Let me just leave this here for now while I work on it. Maybe the indictments are already in the

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Bringing Business to El Paso: The Water Problem

2014-12-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You’ve probably read this story in the El Paso Times, about how El Paso is running out of water. The

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The Bane of QoL: O & M

2014-12-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

El Paso is a cash-strapped town. Nobody foresaw that our boom years, when Fort Bliss was expanding and Juarez was

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