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  • CRRUA in the Whirlwind: The Future of People and Water in Sunland Park-Santa Teresa at the Crossroads

    2025-05-17 Kent Paterson

    by Kent Paterson Like the wind, dust and mist that sting the spring of 2025, stormy developments surround the fundamental question of water and wastewater

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  • The Apartment

    2025-05-14 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright His hands are filthy. He looks at them where they protrude from the frayed cuffs of his dark flannel shirt as though

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  • Blow, Wind, Blow

    2025-05-13 Rich Wright

    From a May 4 post on Gizmodo.com: This year’s drought-exacerbated dusty season is “truly exceptional—one for the record books,” said Thomas Gill, an environmental scientist

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  • “Yes, Your Arrogancy”

    2025-05-12 elrichiboy

    From ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso City Council this week will take another look at public engagement at meetings after a vote limiting audience speakers to

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  • Lady Liberty

    2025-05-11 Kent Paterson
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  • The New Soccer Stadium

    2025-04-26 Rich Wright

    From Mexico’s national media outlet Milenio.com: Alejandra de la Vega, propietaria de los Bravos de Juárez, ha confirmado uno de los proyectos más ambiciosos en

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  • “Prohibition Era Bars in Juarez”

    2025-04-24 elrichiboy

    Local historian and frequent contributor to El Chuqueño Bob Chessey gives a talk about the proliferation of bars and bar owners on Saturday, April 26,

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  • A Border Story You Might Have Missed

    2025-04-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson If you rely on El Paso online media for your news, you might have missed one of the biggest stories in the

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  • About the Deck Park

    2025-04-23 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright You may have noticed that the deck park is still in play, even after funding sources have dried up. Here’s Mayor Renard

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  • Elephant March

    2025-04-22 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright When I was six, my father took me to the circus. My father drank a lot, and drunk or sober he seemed

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  • Sphere and Shakedown in Las Vegas: 60 Years Later the Grateful Dead Family Keeps Truckin’ On

    2025-04-21 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson For the second year in a row, the Good Ship Terrapin Station has landed in Las Vegas, Nevada. The prestigious passengers disembarking

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  • Retrovision: I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

    2025-04-16 elrichiboy

    This post originally appeared on 23 Novemeber, 2021. I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing

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Strange Object on the Moon

2014-01-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story about some weird structure(?) on the moon. The wedge-shaped object, which has seven circular points evenly arranged

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I’ve Got a Secret

2014-01-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Don’t tell anyone, but I think the El Paso Times paywall isn’t working. They announced it last December, in an

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Pope’s Peace Doves Attacked

2014-01-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s hard to not read some symbolism into this story from The Guardian: Two white doves that were released as

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Is El Paso one of them?

2014-01-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story from the Chicago Tribune, detailing the woes of Redflex, a company that provides those red light

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Western Refining in the Mexoplex

2014-01-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did you see this story on KFOX, about a white powder coating cars, houses, and laundry around the Western Refinery?

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Like you needed a reason

2014-01-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a scientific article that says that smoking pot will protect your liver if you binge drink. Importantly, cannabidiol can

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Your Job Could Be Outsourced to a Machine

2014-01-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This thought provoking article in the The Economist posits that technology could render a large percentage of today’s jobs obsolete.

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Deming Settles Anal Probe Lawsuit

2014-01-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Deming and Hidalgo County have agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was subjected to an anal

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VICE on the DEA-Sinaloa Connection

2014-01-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s VICE blogger Brian Anderson on the revelation that the DEA and Sinaloa Cartel had a cozy symbiotic relationship: Still,

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How Decisions Get Made

2014-01-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

If you want, say, to buy a new phone, there are lots of resources you can turn to. There are

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Al Jazeera: Mexican Official Says CIA Manages Drug Trade

2014-01-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this report from Al Jazeera, U.S. government agencies, including the CIA, “don’t fight drug traffickers,” instead “they try

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The Mile High City

2014-01-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

When I quit being a hardcore, wake-and-bake, fully saturated marijuana junkie, when I tapered down to the occasional toke, when

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Feds Run Amok

2014-01-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Those poor guys at the ATF can’t catch a break. Now they have to answer to members of Congress for

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How To Live Like a King

2014-01-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s not all about glitter and glitz. Here’s a recipe for taking control of your life. 1. DON’T SMOKE CIGARETTES.

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Juarez’ Secret Police

2014-01-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There are a couple of interesting stories on the intertubes today about former police chief Julián Leyzaola’s secret police unit,

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More Good News: Antibiotics Are On The Way Out

2014-01-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an alarmist story from the BBC, about how we’re all going to get infections and die, because germs are

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The DEA’s Ties to Criminal Organizations

2014-01-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an article in El Diario, in Spanish, which was originally posted in El Universal. The story makes the unremarkable

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The Best Story About Ecuador on the Internet

2014-01-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Ecuador is widely touted on the internet as retirement Eden. Low prices, socialized medicine, and a relatively stable democracy have

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The Gift That Keeps on Giving: The Ongoing Open Records Law Suit

2014-01-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Y’all may be surprised that the City is still fighting to keep our elected officials personal emails secret, even if

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Glow-in-the-dark pigs

2014-01-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Are you having trouble finding your pig at night? Scientists in China have successfully bred glow-in-the-dark pigs using jellyfish DNA.

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