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  • The 1915 Collision of the Iron Cure and the Harrison Narcotic Act in El Paso

    2026-04-23 Bob Chessey

    Kicking an opiate habit is a bitch. Before the advent of modern medical and pharmaceutical interventions, counseling, and peer support groups, the nationwide de facto

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  • Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?

    2026-04-22 Rich Wright

    You probably heard lately that El Paso is the second best big city in the U.S. in which to live. It was on the news.

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  • We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice

    2026-04-21 Kent Paterson

    Downwinder leader Tina Cordova speaks at the Valle de Oro Community Earth Day event. Seated to Cordova’s immediate left is Loretta Anderson and next to

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  • Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”

    2026-04-19 elrichiboy
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  • “How Ciudad Juárez Spiralled Into Cartel Madness”

    2026-04-18 elrichiboy
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  • “Now We Know Their Names”

    2026-04-17 elrichiboy
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  • Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond

    2026-04-16 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson After a lapse of nearly one year-and-a-half, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) conducted a community meeting the evening of April 7

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  • Paul and Julie Ten Years After

    2026-04-13 Rich Wright

    On or about 05 October 2016, I took Paul and Julie to Juarez. Paul and Julie were ballroom dancers. Like The Sound of Music. Okay

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  • “The Gary Webb Story: CIA, Cocaine, and a Media Assassination”

    2026-04-11 elrichiboy
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  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela

    2026-04-09 Rich Wright

    If you are interested in the Torre Centinela that is almost fully operational in downtown Ciudad Juárez, then you should read this story from RestOfWorld.org.

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  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

    2026-04-05 elrichiboy
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  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”

    2026-04-03 Rich Wright

    (Scene: Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon.) Secretary Pete Hegseth: . . . and that, gentlemen, is how we will end this war.

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Des Moines: A Model for Economic Development

2014-11-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

to this story from the National Journal, Des Moines is a hipster mecca. Young people here know what you think

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El Paso’s Sales Tax Receipts Stay Flat

2014-11-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to the Texas State Comptroller, sales tax receipts for the City of El Paso were flat for the past

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The 19th Largest City in the U.S.?

2014-11-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 4 comments

You have, no doubt, heard the oft repeated factoid that El Paso is the 19th biggest city in the U.S.

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I Rode the BRIO So You Wouldn’t Have To

2014-11-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m going to let you in on the dirty little secret that Sun Metro doesn’t want you to know: That

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Conspiracy Theory?

2014-11-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized 6 comments

Isn’t it great that I post two videos, and both of them get pulled? I tell you I am cutting

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Extraterrestrials Working for the Government

2014-11-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Gary Larsen’s Tales From The Far Side

2014-10-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Gary Larson's Tales From The Far Side by Arsene-desbois

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The 5 C’s

2014-10-30 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development One comment

When I was in grade school, shortly after the discovery of fire but before the invention of the wheel, we

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600 Days and Counting

2014-10-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s been 600 days since an El Paso Police officer shot and killed a handcuffed prisoner in the sallyport of

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Good News and Bad News

2014-10-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This week the El Paso Inc. brought us both good news and bad news. The good news is that there

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The Purple Zone Revisited

2014-10-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Remember that story about the DEA raid on the smoke shop in Alpine? How the feds showed up dressed for

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All My Friends

2014-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

This just in: a new company will offer tours to our sister city this winter. Juarez Lowrider Tours is offering

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Why Democracy Will Never Work in El Paso

2014-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“If it’s entirely a numbers game—numeric representation—then obviously you’d be talking to half the people in Hong Kong [that] earn

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Marketing Advice from today’s Wall Street Journal

2014-10-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Find your identity, and then throw everything you have behind that, because that’s going to be the most honest and

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Something to Consider

2014-10-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“The No. 1 most significant risk to every organization is your well-intentioned, nonmalicious insider.” – Jeff Leek, chief information security

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The Impending, Ongoing, QoL Bond Fiasco

2014-10-18 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Media 6 comments

Bad news for the Quality of Life Bond advocates. You got sold a pig in a poke. Remember when they

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If they can’t read, how can we expect them to write?

2014-10-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story from the August 16, 2014, El Paso Times, headlined US Department of State re-issues warning about traveling to

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California Assemblyman Jess Unruh on Lobbyists

2014-10-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“If you can’t drink their booze, take their money, sleep with their women and then vote against ’em, you don’t

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Buying Government Influence for Less $

2014-10-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m a little disturbed by Beto’s latest campaign move, to solicit donations of less than $200 from enough people to

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The Secrets of the Ballpark’s Financing

2014-10-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a little nugget I gleaned from Local Government Code Chapter 334, the ordinance under which we were gifted the

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  • LOUIS HEAD on Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond
  • F.A. Sommerfeld on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
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  • Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”

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