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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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  • Community Forum with EPISD D1 Candidates

    2025-04-15 Xavier Miranda

    From Xavier Miranda Please consider attending this community forum.  Our public schools face daunting challenges coming from the federal and state levels.  An array of

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  • Dolores Huerta: Still Inspiring the Fight for a New Society

    2025-04-09 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Sporting a black beret that nicely complemented her attire, Dolores Huerta looked ready for battle. The life-long activist, who turns 95 on

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  • Transparency, Chuco-style

    2025-04-07 Rich Wright

    Can you believe that 6 of our 8 City Representatives voted against citizen oversight of bond expenditures? From Adam Powell at ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso

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  • A’s hire A’s

    2025-03-28 elrichiboy

    B’s appoint C’s as cabinet members.

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Investigative Report: The Dangers of Juarez

2013-12-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I hope you read this story in the New York Times about how Juarez is coming back. It’s good to

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The Turbo Encabulator

2013-12-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Skip Tracing Ryan Mullen

2013-12-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story has everything. Skip tracing. Check printing machines that supply endless money. Yachts and Rolls Royces. I’m sure it

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How Americans See Mexico

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from El Diario editorializing on how Americans see Mexico (hence the title to this post): Speedy Gonzalez

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Internal Migration in Juarez

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story in El Diario reports that nearly 100,000 people have changed residences within Juarez because of increasing insecurity in

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Bruce Lee and the One Inch Punch

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

But maybe more impressive is Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchakus.

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The CIA, Smart Bombs, and the War Against the FARC in Colombia

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story about the CIA’s role in taking down the FARC insurgency in Colombia. The 50-year-old Revolutionary Armed

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Police Gone Bad

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a headline you don’t want to see in your local paper: Troopers: Kobuk policeman asked girl for sex in

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Sniffer Dogs Get It Wrong. A Lot. Part II

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

This story tells about a suit filed in state court in Nevada, that claims that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police

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Sniffer Dogs Get It Wrong. A Lot.

2013-12-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story from down under claims that, according to official figures, Australia’s sniffer dogs register false positives 80% of the

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Will Obamacare Cover That?

2013-12-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

If I’m coming back from Juarez, and the brave men policing our border decide to do a little investigative colonoscopy

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I’ll Drink to That

2013-12-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an article in Mother Jones that claims a new test proves the drinking alcohol boosts your immune system. To

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UMC and Forcible Penetration

2013-12-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

By now you’ve read this story about the New Mexico woman who was probed and x-rayed after a drug dog

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Putin Envies Obama

2013-12-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Vladimir Putin gave his annual press conference yesterday. Among all the answers about Russian civil rights was this quote: “I

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The Saudis, George W. Bush, and 9/11

2013-12-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Relatives of the victims of 9/11 are clamoring for 28 censored pages of the official report which allegedly link the

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The 10 Most Corrupt in Mexico, According to Forbes

2013-12-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this article in Forbes Magazine, the ten most corrupt people in Mexico includes four former state governors who

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You could be next: Non-violent Protesters Charged Under Anti-Terrorism Law

2013-12-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story on FireDogLake.com, two non-violent protesters of the Keystone XL Pipeline were arrested under an anti-terrorism law

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The Medical Examiner Called it Homicide

2013-12-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s Part 2 of the Arizona Republic’s reporting on the public impunity of Border Protection Agents. It covers the killing

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Why Weren’t the Bankers Held Accountable?

2013-12-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story by a United States District Judge postulating on why no bank executives were tried for what appears

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Nothing is Beyond the Reach of Our Government Snoops

2013-12-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

. . . and they brag about it. (read the whole story at the Vigilant Citizen.)

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