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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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  • “Stone Age Temple Mystery”

    2026-05-02 elrichiboy
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  • UTEP’s Professional College Athletes

    2026-04-27 Rich Wright

    “Hookers and a Camaro aren’t going to cut it anymore.” — My friend Mora I think UTEP should be a big party school, because it’s

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  • “Surprise Witness”

    2026-04-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Four Dead in Five Seconds”

    2026-04-25 elrichiboy
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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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Feliz Cumple, Tin Tan!

2022-09-19 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment

Double Feature! La Marca Del Zorrillo and Soy Charro de Levita

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I Will Not Seek Endorsements

2022-09-19 elrichiboy Elections, Political Advertisement, Politics, Slider 5 comments

I’ve had a couple of groups reach out to me with questionnaires I could fill out to win their endorsements.

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What You’ll Get From the Arena

2022-09-19 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Gensler, Heritage Tourism, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 4 comments

Best case scenario: Collateral development. Maybe other businesses will spring up around the arena. Like what? When they were promoting

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Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much”

2022-09-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Foggy Mountain Quartet – “Are You Washed in the Blood”

2022-09-18 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“This is the Last Dam Run of Likker I’ll Ever Make.”

2022-09-17 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Tommy Gonzalez Doesn’t Share Our Values

2022-09-16 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Strategic Plan, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

The City can’t stop spending your money. Here’s a story from KFOXtv.com titled ‘We haven’t given up on Great Wolf

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“The Predestination Effect”

2022-09-16 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Ballad of a Corrido, Part One

2022-09-15 Bob Chessey History, Juarez, Mexico, Slider One comment

Gabriel Jara and Tom Threepersons’ Border Shootout. by Bob Chessey On the summer evening of Saturday, June 14, 1924, two

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“Arena” Meeting TODAY at 5:30

2022-09-15 elrichiboy City Management, Gensler, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Surprise! CBS4Local reports that the City is hosting a meeting regarding the arena at 5:30 today in the large conference

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“Woman on the Run”

2022-09-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Our Neighbors Committed Mass Murder, Here’s What We Did”

2022-09-10 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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What I’ll Do If I’m Elected

2022-09-10 Rich Wright City Council, Culture, Economic Development, Elections, Political Advertisement 3 comments

El Paso is a great city. I never thought we needed to spend a billion dollars to fix it. There

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“The Last Theft”

2022-09-09 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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“Why Do (Some) Humans Love Chile?”

2022-09-09 elrichiboy Culture, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

From Sapiens.org: Psychology researchers, on the other hand, have posited that some people’s preference for capsaicin-containing foods is related to

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Rock and Roll Never Forgets

2022-09-08 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Cissy Lizarraga, It's All Good, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Max Grossman reports that District 8 Representative Cissy Lizarraga is appointing Steffen Poessiger to the City’s Historic Landmark Commission. You

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El Paso City Government is a Lamborghini

2022-09-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

The City’s share of property taxes on the median priced home went up 6% this year. You can read about

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“El Paso Del Norte”

2022-09-05 elrichiboy Video 2 comments
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Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in “The African Queen”

2022-09-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Psychology of Crowd Manipulation”

2022-09-03 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary One comment
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  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One
  • “Cry Vegeance”
  • “The Officer Who Threw the Punch Isn’t the Problem. The Man Who Approved It Is.”
  • Our Surveillance State
  • Alec Guiness in “The Detective”

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