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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”

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  • “Blackout”

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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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Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water

2023-11-13 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Elizabeth Triggs, Slider, TIRZs 2 comments

From the dead tree edition of the El Paso Inc.: Two years after it was rezoned from farm/ranch land to

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Rita Hayworth in “Gilda”

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“What Eating the Rich did for Japan”

2023-11-11 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The Teflon Donna

2023-11-08 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, Corruption, Gassandrgate, Politics, Slider 2 comments

You read that the effort to recall District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez failed to get the 4,000+ signatures it would

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Press Release for Effort to Recall Cassandra Hernandez

2023-11-07 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Gassandrgate, Slider One comment
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Cary Grant in “People Will Talk”

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“Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles”

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“Sapphire”

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“Origins of the Middle East conflict”

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El hermano mayor.

2023-10-24 Rich Wright Juarez, Mexico, Slider, Surveillance Leave a comment

Check out this promotional video for Torre Centinela: No, it’s not a sci-fi movie about a near future dystopia. That

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Barbs along the Rio Grande

2023-10-20 Kent Paterson Immigration, Law Enforcement, Slider One comment

By Kent Paterson A pleasant and quiet day prevailed just above the International Dam on the Rio Grande near the

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All You Need to Know About Prop 11

2023-10-17 elrichiboy Elections, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

From Ballotpedia.com: The measure would amend section 59 of Article 16 of the Texas Constitution to authorize the state legislature

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“Two of a Kind’

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“The Great Awakening”

2023-10-14 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The Sacred Cows

2023-10-14 Rich Wright Politics, Slider One comment

by Rich Wright Every election year you hear it. “Is this the best we can do?” For president, we’ve got

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Community First Coalition’s TIRZ Panel Discussion

2023-10-12 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, TIRZs One comment

Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones are a dubiously effective economic development tool. In El Paso, TIRZs are used to deprive the

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“Heat Wave”

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“The Power of Wall Street – Who Rules America”

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The New Chief

2023-10-04 Rich Wright Chief Greg Allen, Dionne Mack, El Paso Police Department, Law Enforcement, Slider 5 comments

by Rich Wright From ElPasoTimes.com: Peter Pacillas was named the permanent chief of the El Paso Police Department after a

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“I’m Too Busy for This”

2023-10-03 elrichiboy Immigration, Juarez, Law Enforcement, Mexico, Migration, Slider 2 comments

Here’s a story from FrankNews about what happens to some of your El Paso neighbors. It’s strange. Something’s happening. It’s

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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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