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  • “EL PASO, WHERE SUNSHINE SPENDS THE WINTER”

    2025-10-23 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey One hundred years ago, before El Paso simply advertised and referred to itself as the “Sun City,” the municipality boasted the slogan,

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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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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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The Death of Prince and Nero’s

2013-12-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You may have read this story in the El Paso Times about The Westside Show Lounge closing. For years it

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The Stupidity of the Border Fence and the Militarization of the Border

2013-12-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a piece on Salon that highlights the stupidity of increased border security. Last week, John McCain gleefully announced that

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Greenwald: The Media are the Government’s Lapdogs

2013-12-28 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a summary of Glenn Greenwald’s address to a computer conference in Germany. “It really is the central view of

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What happens after you’re dead?

2013-12-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting interview with a doctor who specializes in bringing people back from the dead: There may be something

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Investigative Report: The Dangers of Juarez

2013-12-26 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I hope you read this story in the New York Times about how Juarez is coming back. It’s good to

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The Turbo Encabulator

2013-12-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Skip Tracing Ryan Mullen

2013-12-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story has everything. Skip tracing. Check printing machines that supply endless money. Yachts and Rolls Royces. I’m sure it

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How Americans See Mexico

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from El Diario editorializing on how Americans see Mexico (hence the title to this post): Speedy Gonzalez

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Internal Migration in Juarez

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This story in El Diario reports that nearly 100,000 people have changed residences within Juarez because of increasing insecurity in

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Bruce Lee and the One Inch Punch

2013-12-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

But maybe more impressive is Bruce Lee playing ping pong with nunchakus.

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  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

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