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  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

    2025-10-20 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright This article, or something very much like it, originally appeared on NewspaperTree.com in early May, 2008. There’s this brain drain argument that’s

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  • “The Other Woman”

    2025-10-19 elrichiboy
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  • “The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

    2025-10-18 elrichiboy

    Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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  • Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-10-17 Rich Wright

    Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing organizations. In response to the

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  • Ninja Convention

    2025-10-16 Rich Wright

    The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade on Montana last night. Kudos

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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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  • The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises

    2025-10-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Amid the landscape of yucca and creosote plants, artificial intelligence-driven Project Stargate took shape this week just a tad up the road from

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  • Diminishing El Paso

    2025-10-06 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue to see little to moderate

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  • “Highway Dragnet”

    2025-10-05 elrichiboy
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  • “The 1916 [Irish] Rising of Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”

    2025-10-04 elrichiboy
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  • Ouch!

    2025-10-03 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times delivered its mandated circulation report on page 5A of Thursday’s dead tree edition, and it’s not pretty. On July 25, 2025,

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  • Juarez’ 2025 Bullfighting Season

    2025-10-01 Rich Wright

    While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at 8pm at the Alberto Balderas

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Even She Knows She’s Bullshitting

2014-02-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times reported that City Manager Joyce Wilson spoke to the Central Business Association last week. “The role

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Happy New Year!

2014-01-31 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

Yesterday I took a Chinese family over to Juarez. It was Chinese New Year’s Eve. We walked over, and got

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County Elections: Why bother?

2014-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Well, the county elections are coming up. So what? None of the incumbents have a lot to brag about what

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Deport the Biebs?

2014-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Biebs is lucky he’s not a poor Mexican: I think it’s fair to say then that if Bieber’s neighbor’s

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Those Poor Guys at the Borderplex Alliance

2014-01-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The ballpark stunt really backfired for the Hunts. Obama mobilized a disenfranchised electorate in 2008, and then Beto fanned the

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Strange Object on the Moon

2014-01-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story about some weird structure(?) on the moon. The wedge-shaped object, which has seven circular points evenly arranged

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I’ve Got a Secret

2014-01-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Don’t tell anyone, but I think the El Paso Times paywall isn’t working. They announced it last December, in an

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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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