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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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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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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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U.S. Biggest Threat to World Peace

2014-01-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

We’re number 1, according to an international survey: The US has been voted as the most significant threat to world

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Mass Murderer Treated Better Than Hacker

2013-12-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Welcome to Denmark: An international media campaign is targeting the Danish legal system’s treatment of Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svarholm

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The Death of Prince and Nero’s

2013-12-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You may have read this story in the El Paso Times about The Westside Show Lounge closing. For years it

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