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  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”

    2026-05-31 elrichiboy
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  • “Impossible Places: World’s Most Extreme Corners on Earth”

    2026-05-30 elrichiboy
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  • “Blackout”

    2026-05-24 elrichiboy
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  • “Sevres & Sykes–Picot: How the Middle East Was Divided”

    2026-05-23 elrichiboy
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  • Memories, Reflections and Connections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part Two

    2026-05-20 Kent Paterson

    Feature photo: Mercedes Doretti of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team addresses the Las Cruces gathering. (Photo by Cynthia Bejarano) Convened on the 20th anniversary of

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  • “Jealous Badge”

    2026-05-17 elrichiboy
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  • “The New ‘Oumuamua? Everything We Know So Far About 3I/Atlas”

    2026-05-16 elrichiboy
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  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One

    2026-05-13 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Paula Flores recently retold parts of a painfully long and unresolved story to an audience at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in

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  • “Cry Vegeance”

    2026-05-10 elrichiboy
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  • “The Officer Who Threw the Punch Isn’t the Problem. The Man Who Approved It Is.”

    2026-05-08 elrichiboy
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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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  • Alec Guiness in “The Detective”

    2026-05-03 elrichiboy
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El Paso: Where Young People Go to Leave

2014-09-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The New York Times Magazine ran a feature on Portland touting the city’s ability to attract and retain college educated

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National PARK(ing) Day in Downtown El Paso

2014-09-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In an effort to promote downtown El Paso, the City has commandeered what looks like a couple of parking spaces

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It’s Lonely at the Top . . .

2014-09-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

or so I’m told. We only made it to the saddle.

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El Paso is Home to the Second Best Burrito in America

2014-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

The website fivethirtyeight.com claims that Delicious Mexican Eatery’s chile verde burrito is the second best burrito in American, being edged

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The Future of Journalism

2014-09-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Dead tree media have had a hard time competing with the internet. Newspapers thought that all they had to do

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Sensationalist Pandering to Base Emotions

2014-09-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

Do you see this fight that took place before the UTEP-Texas Tech game? I lifted it from the KVIA website.

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Death A Waits

2014-09-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

The word on the street is that squatters had been occupying the old Lerner building since the Gateway closed. Word

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Monorail! Monorail! Juarez Scratches the Itch

2014-09-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from the El Diario website. Juarez is thinking about putting in light rail to link San Agustin

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Guess What. The Developers Have Been Screwing Us.

2014-09-04 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

Here’s some brilliant insight from an informed observer who was sitting at the table when El Paso residential property owners

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The Long Walk Home

2014-09-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Last night I walked home from Ultimate. I had a ride lined up but it fell through. Everyone wanted to

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Is the Islamic State in Juarez?

2014-08-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

This from the website JudicialWatch.org: Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning

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Clang Clang Clang

2014-08-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Will people park their cars and take the trolley from downtown to UTEP? Currently there are four bus routes that

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‘topes Leaving ABQ for OKC

2014-08-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The Albuquerque Isotopes will end their affiliation with the Los Angeles Dodgers next season. The Major League club will move

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You Are All Just Characters in My Video Game

2014-08-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story that’s either comforting or disturbing or both. Government scientists are investigating whether reality is as real as

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Leading Indicators

2014-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

If the County of El Paso were a publicly held company, these two stories would give investors reason to short

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Mission Accomplished!

2014-08-26 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

Well, the numbers are in, and the ballpark is a huge success. Attendance records have been broken, businesses are swarming

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More Tiny Houses for Homeless People

2014-08-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the latest. This one’s from Portland. Portland is preparing to endorse the construction of communities of tiny houses on

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A Closer Look at Austin’s Newest Housing Project

2014-08-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

My interest was piqued by the tidbit of information about Austin’s newest project to provide housing to the chronically homeless.

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The Divided Future of El Paso

2014-08-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

I was surprised to see many of El Paso’s first citizens at the recent meeting to discuss the potential move

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Our Budget Deficit

2014-08-18 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

By now you’ve heard that El Paso is facing a $3.5 million deficit, and City Council will probably raise property

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  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”
  • “Impossible Places: World’s Most Extreme Corners on Earth”
  • “Blackout”
  • “Sevres & Sykes–Picot: How the Middle East Was Divided”
  • Memories, Reflections and Connections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part Two

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