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  • The History and Geography of Cartels in Juarez

    2025-08-08 Rich Wright

    Here’s an insightful portrait of the criminal organizations in Ciudad Juarez, their histories, and their geographic domains, from InsightCrime.org1: If you ask most Juarenses, “the

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  • What Redistricting Means to El Paso

    2025-08-07 Rich Wright

    From KTSM.com: The El Paso City Council has officially taken a stance to oppose Texas Republican legislators’ proposed redistricting map. . . . Republicans’ proposed

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  • “Liminal Spaces: A Border Dialogue” Art Opening This Friday

    2025-08-06 elrichiboy
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  • Let’s Put the Deck Park to a Vote

    2025-08-04 Rich Wright

    Isn’t that the way things get decided in a democracy? I know, elections are expensive, but not as expensive as a $400 million deck park.

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  • “Trapped”

    2025-08-03 elrichiboy
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  • “Bolivia: La vida en las nubes | Las carreteras más peligrosas del mundo”

    2025-08-02 elrichiboy
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  • The “Notorious NARCOTIC Smuggler” La Nacha: The El Paso Years

    2025-07-31 Bob Chessey

    So, “Who was ‘La Nacha’?” For 50 years “La Nacha” remained a name synonymous with Juarez and opiate trafficking, a woman who rose to become

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  • Garbage Revisited

    2025-07-29 Rich Wright

    Don’t you imagine that the City’s Environmental Services Department would love to get its hands on the local dumpster services? The ESD is one of

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  • The Opportunity Costs of the Deck Park

    2025-07-28 Rich Wright

    The estimated cost of the deck park is more than $400 million before it’s done. The initial phase is projected to cost $207 million, just

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  • El Paso Matters Can’t Be Bought Cheap

    2025-07-24 Rich Wright

    An email I received from District 3 Representative Deanna M. Rocha contained this nugget: The City of El Paso proudly recognized El Paso Matters with

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  • Sunwest Seafood Sales

    2025-07-23 elrichiboy

    Fresh Seafood at Wholesale Prices A hundred oysters for $100. Yeah, I know, who can eat a hundred oysters? Well, me and the missus can,

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  • Retrovision: I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

    2025-07-22 Rich Wright

    This post originally appeared on 23 November, 2021. I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing

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“Colombian Cartels: Meet the World’s Biggest Drug Suppliers”

2025-06-14 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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Dead People

2025-06-13 Rich Wright Drugs, Juarez, Marijuana, Slider 2 comments

I am of an age where I know lots of dead people. Some, of course, have been dead for a

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“The League of Gentlemen”

2025-06-08 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“1964: The Year That Changed America”

2025-06-07 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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Dr. M. C. Melanson’s One-Track Mind

2025-06-06 Bob Chessey El Paso, History, Slider Leave a comment

by Bob Chessey Narcotic traffickers aim to profit by delivering contraband across geopolitical lines; however, there are physicians who trespass

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El Paso is a Small Town

2025-06-02 Rich Wright El Paso Times, Media, Slider 3 comments

Today’s front page headline of the dead tree edition of our English almost-daily newspaper is “Five new restaurants to try

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Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes”

2025-06-01 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Mr. Polaroid”

2025-05-31 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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El Paso 23rd Biggest City in the U.S.?

2025-05-30 Rich Wright ballpark, Deck Park, population, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

From ElPasoMatters.org: The population in El Paso’s city limits grew by 150 people between 2023 and 2024, continuing a decade-long

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CRRUA Update: State of New Mexico Sues

2025-05-29 Rich Wright CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, Water Leave a comment

From SourceNM.com: New Mexico’s environment department on Wednesday announced it has filed a lawsuit against the Camino Real Regional Utility

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The Sunland Park-Santa Teresa Chronicles: Cannabis, CRRUA and Capitalism

2025-05-29 Kent Paterson CRRUA, Slider, Sunland Park, Water 3 comments

The evening of May 21, 2025 will surely count as one of the liveliest meetings of the Sunland Park City

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The New Hypernormalization

2025-05-28 Rich Wright Opinion, Slider One comment

From TheGuardian.com: First articulated in 2005 by scholar Alexei Yurchak to describe the civilian experience in Soviet Russia, hypernormalization describes

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No Mas La Puntita

2025-05-26 Rich Wright City Council, Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT, Veronica Escobar 2 comments

From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council voted eight to zero to pass a resolution authorizing the submission of an application

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Gallium in Round Top Mountain

2025-05-25 Rich Wright Economic Development, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

From EcoPortal.net, a story titled 36,000,000 kg under this American region ? It’s better than lithium and the end of

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“Black Tuesday”

2025-05-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Inside Chicago’s Infamous Gang Underworld”

2025-05-24 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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CRRUA in the Whirlwind: The Future of People and Water in Sunland Park-Santa Teresa at the Crossroads

2025-05-17 Kent Paterson CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, The Environment, Water One comment

by Kent Paterson Like the wind, dust and mist that sting the spring of 2025, stormy developments surround the fundamental

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“Dopemen: America’s First Drug Cartel”

2025-05-17 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Uncategorized Leave a comment
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The Apartment

2025-05-14 Rich Wright Fiction, Slider 4 comments

by Rich Wright His hands are filthy. He looks at them where they protrude from the frayed cuffs of his

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Blow, Wind, Blow

2025-05-13 Rich Wright Everybody talks about the weather, Slider 2 comments

From a May 4 post on Gizmodo.com: This year’s drought-exacerbated dusty season is “truly exceptional—one for the record books,” said

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