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  • “The Book of Enoch – What the Church Tried to Hide”

    2025-08-09 elrichiboy
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  • The History and Geography of Cartels in Juarez

    2025-08-08 Rich Wright

    Here’s an insightful portrait of the criminal organizations in Ciudad Juarez, their histories, and their geographic domains, from InsightCrime.org1: If you ask most Juarenses, “the

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  • What Redistricting Means to El Paso

    2025-08-07 Rich Wright

    From KTSM.com: The El Paso City Council has officially taken a stance to oppose Texas Republican legislators’ proposed redistricting map. . . . Republicans’ proposed

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  • “Liminal Spaces: A Border Dialogue” Art Opening This Friday

    2025-08-06 elrichiboy
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  • Let’s Put the Deck Park to a Vote

    2025-08-04 Rich Wright

    Isn’t that the way things get decided in a democracy? I know, elections are expensive, but not as expensive as a $400 million deck park.

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  • “Trapped”

    2025-08-03 elrichiboy
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  • “Bolivia: La vida en las nubes | Las carreteras más peligrosas del mundo”

    2025-08-02 elrichiboy
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  • The “Notorious NARCOTIC Smuggler” La Nacha: The El Paso Years

    2025-07-31 Bob Chessey

    So, “Who was ‘La Nacha’?” For 50 years “La Nacha” remained a name synonymous with Juarez and opiate trafficking, a woman who rose to become

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  • Garbage Revisited

    2025-07-29 Rich Wright

    Don’t you imagine that the City’s Environmental Services Department would love to get its hands on the local dumpster services? The ESD is one of

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  • The Opportunity Costs of the Deck Park

    2025-07-28 Rich Wright

    The estimated cost of the deck park is more than $400 million before it’s done. The initial phase is projected to cost $207 million, just

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  • El Paso Matters Can’t Be Bought Cheap

    2025-07-24 Rich Wright

    An email I received from District 3 Representative Deanna M. Rocha contained this nugget: The City of El Paso proudly recognized El Paso Matters with

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  • Sunwest Seafood Sales

    2025-07-23 elrichiboy

    Fresh Seafood at Wholesale Prices A hundred oysters for $100. Yeah, I know, who can eat a hundred oysters? Well, me and the missus can,

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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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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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