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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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  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

    2026-03-31 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Data centers are a burning issue in the Paso del Norte borderland of 2026. Plans to open a giant data center complex

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  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

    2026-03-22 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martinez Given the recent disturbing revelations about Cesar Chávez, it seems certain that the local Border Highway’s name will be changed.  Many

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A License to Litter

2024-02-14 elrichiboy Dumpsters One comment

Did you know that most dumpsters are on city property? They’re in alleys, or that little strip of land between

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Inflation, Chucostyle

2024-02-14 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Did you get a gas bill this month? Was it about twice as high as last month’s? Ouch. Have you

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“The Brave Bulls”

2024-02-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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“All the King’s Men”

2024-02-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

From YouTube: “In a bravura performance, Broderick Crawford won the 1949 Academy Award for Best Actor with his stunning portrayal

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Diesel Exhaust is Toxic

2024-02-01 Rich Wright Bridge of the Americas, City Council, Slider 6 comments

From TheEngineer.co.UK: But even when governments were promoting diesel cars, we knew there were issues with toxic emissions (those immediately

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What’s Wrong With El Paso

2024-02-01 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Elections, Slider 6 comments

That’s not a question. Or maybe it is. Look at this story in the El Paso Times: For Pete Faraone,

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Dumpster du Jour

2024-01-30 Rich Wright Dumpsters Leave a comment

This dumpster is on Cliff, between Ochoa and Florence. El Paso Disposal has been better lately. They’ve been emptying the

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Pollution at the Bridge of the Americas

2024-01-29 Rich Wright Bridge of the Americas, International Relations, Mexico, Slider, Veronica Escobar 3 comments

Commercial traffic on the Bridge of the Americas is contributing a lot of pollution to the surrounding neighborhood, and there’s

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Alfred Hitchcock’s “Sabotage”

2024-01-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Crown to Dust – Downfall of America’s Largest Bank”

2024-01-27 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Planning for a Static State

2024-01-27 Rich Wright Arrogance, City Council, City Management, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin, Cost of Living, Slider, Urban Planning 6 comments

According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, in 2012, El Paso’s population was 674,588. In 2022, our population was 677,456. Since

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Lon Chaney, Jr. in “The Big Chase”

2024-01-21 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The UFO Conclusion”

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“The Pay Off”

2024-01-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Who Pays?”

2024-01-11 elrichiboy Taxes Leave a comment

Here’s an analysis of the progressivity and regressivity of tax systems in various states, i.e., who pays a greater proportion

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One of the Five Best Tequilas

2024-01-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Culture, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

From Forbes.com: To help simplify things, we turned to the top international spirit competitions to help narrow down the field

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Downtown Dumpsters

2024-01-10 elrichiboy Dumpsters Leave a comment

These overflowing dumpsters were on the street under the Plaza Hotel parking lot. If it can happen to Paul Foster,

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Bringing Home the Bacon

2024-01-10 Rich Wright Climate Change, Nicole Alderette-Ferrini, Slider, Veronica Escobar 3 comments

With Representative Veronica Escobar, El Paso has something El Paso hasn’t had before: a Congressperson who is landing her district

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BOTA Call to Action

2024-01-08 Jerry Kurtyka Bridge of the Americas, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

by Jerry Kurtyka BOTA NEPA SCOPING PUBLIC MEETING On Wednesday December 12th the General Services Administration (GSA) hosted a public

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Proposition C

2024-01-04 Rich Wright Arrogance, City Council, City Management, Climate Change, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin, Nicole Alderette-Ferrini, Opportunity Costs, Slider 2 comments

From CBS4Local.com: El Paso’s City Council approved the agenda item to pay over a million dollars to form a Climate

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  • 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”
  • “Now We Know Their Names”
  • Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond

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