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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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Lank is At Large and Dangerous

2012-10-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

And so it was that when Claire’s company arrived at four that I was sloshingly hebetated, into the home stretch

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The Golden Life

2012-10-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There’s nothing wrong with the rosy future the ballpark proponents have advanced. The ballpark hasn’t been mired in the inescapable

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Government Serving the Oligarchs

2012-10-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times Letter of the Day for October 1, 2012 The surreptitious way in which this baseball stadium/relocated

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Playing ball

2012-09-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story from El Diario, the City of El Paso has a professional real estate agent/consultant on salary

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Monorail!

2012-09-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

http://youtu.be/AEZjzsnPhnw

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$20 million?

2012-09-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did MountainStar Sports really pay $20 million for the Tucson Padres? According to this story from Forbes magazine, in 2008

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The future of El Paso

2012-09-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Our benevolent overlords the Illuminati Paso del Norte Group have posted on their website their vision for the future of

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At Large in Europe by Lank Dresser

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s day eight of a ten-day tour. I just woke up in a renovated suite in a castle in County

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Winning the War on Drugs

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Under the mask of the war on drugs By Lars Schall “If you look at the drug war from a

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Roseanne Barr on Drugs

2012-09-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The War on Drugs: Now, after all these years, it even sounds dumb and tiresome. Here we are on our

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What’s wrong with El Paso

2012-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I like El Paso. What about all those people saying it’s not good enough for them? (read more)

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Except for the shooting, the war is over.

2012-08-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“I’d go to Juarez,” the straw man said, “except for all the killing.” (read more)

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Does El Paso need downtown development?

2012-08-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

All across American, downtowns are in trouble. They’re dead, or dying. It’s epidemic. When happy motoring drew middle class Americans

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Eeewww

2012-08-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “While being booked last Thursday night at the Doña Ana

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When machetes attack

2012-08-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Las Cruces has lots more exciting news than El Paso. “Las Cruces Police detectives learned that Gower was at 810

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The economic impact of a downtown baseball stadium

2012-08-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Are they crazy? Seventy-one games a year. Four hours a game, including pedestrian commute time. The rest of the time,

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Militant Bicyclists

2012-08-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“Is it any surprise that most cyclists indentify as atheists and liberals?” (read more) Hat tip to Federico Villalba.

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Music Under the Influence

2012-08-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Have y’all been to Music Under the Stars lately? Of course you haven’t, because they’re not letting you bring your

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What if the baseball team sucks?

2012-07-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

What if the team sucks? Because (spoiler alert), they do. (read more)

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Strike One!

2012-07-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m sure they mean well, those private investors and city politicians who want to build a baseball stadium in downtown

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  • F.A. Sommerfeld on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
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  • Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?
  • We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice
  • Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”
  • “How Ciudad Juárez Spiralled Into Cartel Madness”

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