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  • NY Times — “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurant Across the United States”

    2026-08-15 Rich Wright

    Some yankees from the New York Times compiled a list of “41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants Across the United States.” According to this post

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  • La Cucaracha

    2026-08-14 Howard Campbell

    by Howard Campbell After walking across the heavily fortified Paso del Norte bridge and ducking through Mexican customs, you arrive at the foot of Juárez

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  • Drones for Them, But Not for Us?

    2026-08-12 Tim Holt

    By Tim Holt The ACLU released a report in March called Drones For Them But Not For Us? Most people will probably see that title

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  • Citlali Delgado, Artist

    2026-08-11 Rich Wright

    Every artist needs a body of work. One painting, or one song, or one role, on stage or the big screen, won’t lead to fame

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  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”

    2026-07-31 Vanessa Johnson

    Shouts and Murmurs On July 30, El Paso Electric sent out an email to its customers, with the subject line “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained.”

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  • You Can Pay When You’re Dead

    2026-06-08 Rich Wright

    Since 1979, the State of Texas has had a program that saves older homeowners from getting their houses seized because of past due property taxes.

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  • Our Surveillance State

    2026-05-05 Rich Wright

    From APNews.com: Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor

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  • “Time Table”

    2026-08-16 elrichiboy
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  • “The Real History of Africa They Never Taught You | Africa’s Great Civilizations”

    2026-08-15 elrichiboy
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  • “The Arrest That Exposed the CIA’s Most Secret Mission”

    2026-08-08 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso Matters to the Rescue

    2026-08-07 Rich Wright

    From ElPasoMatters.org: Between 2015 and 2025, the number of El Pasoans under age 65 grew by fewer than 4,000. The number of those 65 and

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  • The Michigan Earthquake: Did Data Centers Clinch Al-Sayed’s Primary Victory?

    2026-08-05 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Outspent 11 to 1 by incumbent Congresswoman Haley Stevens, Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed’s August 4 win in the Michigan Democratic primary for the

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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”

    2026-08-02 elrichiboy
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  • John Prine – “I Remember Everything”

    2026-07-30 elrichiboy
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Life in the USA

2015-03-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s something you don’t see every day. A guy getting set up by a local law enforcement and a compliant

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New boss, same as the old boss

2015-03-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In El Paso, if a political faction doesn’t have anything constructive to offer, they go on the attack. If someone

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Moonlighting

2015-02-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I was browsing the most interesting site on the internet, and I found this. Bryan Crowe is the City of

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Keeping it Real

2015-02-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a video from the Borderplex Alliance website, which asks “Can you still get someplace real in America?” Yeah, folklorico

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And then there’s this . . .

2015-02-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

From the Times: “[Billy] Abraham owns several local businesses and buildings, primarily in Downtown El Paso. He also promoted Wednesday’s

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The New Face of the Retail Drug Trade in Juarez

2015-02-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting special feature from El Diario about the retail drug trade in Juarez. They say the puchadores have

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The End is Near, but It’s All Good!

2015-02-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Here’s a story to cheer you up. Things are getting improbably worse than you could imagine. Large sections of the

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Social Activist’s Body Found in Morelos

2015-02-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Some people in Mexico think that the government had more culpability in the disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa

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Mexico Offers Undocumented Americans Amnesty

2015-02-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For a limited time, U.S. citizens living in Mexico illegally can normalize their status, according to this story. The issue

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Mesilla Park State Representative Proposes Legalizing Pot

2015-02-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story in the Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico State Representative Bill McCamley was discouraged but not dissuaded by

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Shadow Prisons: How the Government Built More Private Prisons and Then Arrested More People

2015-02-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story (that incidentally features nice photos of El Paso): A Fusion investigation found that without a single

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America’s Largest Street Gang: a video about law-enforcement

2015-02-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

If you think we have it bad here in El Paso, where the police only occasionally murder a handcuffed prisoner,

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From Zero to $129,000 a Month in Four Months

2015-02-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According the Texas State Comptroller, the top five locations in El Paso for liquor sales in December were: Bar Fly

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Is Retaliation the EPPD’s Unofficial Policy?

2015-02-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, Sociology Professor Alice Goffman recounts In interviews, Warrant Unit officers

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Stop the Presses! El Paso Times Publishes (almost) Critical Editorial!

2015-02-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

In an uncharacteristically critical editorial on Sunday, the El Paso Times noted the limits of El Paso’s recent unemployment report.

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How to Live in El Paso

2015-02-03 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Some people think we need to spend a half a billion dollars to make El Paso an attractive place to

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Is the Border Patrol Out of Control?

2015-02-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

There was the incident last week where Border Patrol agents chased a man for thirty miles before they shot him

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About the Camino Real

2015-01-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Locals are the worst people to ask about hotels, because mostly locals don’t stay in local hotels. The Camino Real

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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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