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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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  • The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises

    2025-10-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Amid the landscape of yucca and creosote plants, artificial intelligence-driven Project Stargate took shape this week just a tad up the road from

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  • Diminishing El Paso

    2025-10-06 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue to see little to moderate

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  • “Highway Dragnet”

    2025-10-05 elrichiboy
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  • “The 1916 [Irish] Rising of Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”

    2025-10-04 elrichiboy
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  • Ouch!

    2025-10-03 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times delivered its mandated circulation report on page 5A of Thursday’s dead tree edition, and it’s not pretty. On July 25, 2025,

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  • Juarez’ 2025 Bullfighting Season

    2025-10-01 Rich Wright

    While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at 8pm at the Alberto Balderas

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  • The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown

    2025-09-30 Rich Wright

    Downtown El Paso is already barely accessible. What effect will 5 years of freeway and deck park construction have on it? All those businesses who

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  • “Park Plaza 605”

    2025-09-28 elrichiboy
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  • Social Engineering Chuco-Style

    2025-09-26 Rich Wright

    I live in a neighborhood I call Barrio Heights. Barrio Heights is below Rim Road, close to El Paso High. The houses in Barrio Heights

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  • Community First Coalition Forum on Affordable Housing

    2025-09-25 elrichiboy

    The Community First Coalition is hosting a forum on the housing challenges facing the local community. Everybody needs housing, and in the current climate, we

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  • Book Launch: “Juarez | Tales from a Misunderstood City”

    2025-09-24 elrichiboy
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La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez

2025-07-17 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider 7 comments

You’d have to be older than I am to remember La Fiesta in downtown Juarez, and I’m pretty old. La

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Roaming Free in Mexico: How Will the Wolf Survive?

2025-07-15 Kent Paterson International Relations, Mexico, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson A Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) of undetermined sex was captured on camera roaming the back

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Beasts of Burden

2025-07-14 Rich Wright Fiction, Slider 2 comments

by Rich Wright He wears a pistol on his ankle and carries a condom in his billfold. He never uses

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The Great Trumpini

2025-07-13 Rich Wright Politics, Slider Leave a comment

From a July 12, 2025 article at APNews.com:  President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he’s levying tariffs of 30% against the European Union and

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“Angel in Exile”

2025-07-13 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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July 12 Border Policy Protest Planned for Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

2025-07-09 Kent Paterson Immigration, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

By Kent Paterson Under the slogan “Humanize Don’t Militarize,” New Mexico and Texas activists intend to put their constitutional rights

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Dystopia, USA

2025-07-08 Rich Wright Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

Imagine masked U.S. government agents kidnapping people off the street and sending them to concentration camps. Dystopian fiction? Nah. It’s

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Immigration and Detention Witness

2025-07-07 Xavier Miranda Immigration, Law Enforcement, Slider 2 comments

by Xavier Miranda I spent the morning of Friday, June 20,  at the U. S. Courthouse in downtown El Paso,

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“Quiet Please, Murder”

2025-07-06 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Archimedes – The Greatest Inventor of the Ancient World”

2025-07-05 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Watching the Watchers

2025-07-02 Rich Wright Law Enforcement, Mexico, Slider, Surveillance Leave a comment

I told you about the Torre Centinela that’s going up in downtown Juarez. Well, Juarez isn’t the only city in

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EPEC’s Rate Increase

2025-06-30 Rich Wright Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, El Paso Electric Company, Slider One comment

In this ElPasoMatters.com post, Diego Mendoza-Myers writes about EPEC’s plans to build out its system and what that means for

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“Intrigue”

2025-06-29 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

2025-06-28 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

2025-06-23 Rich Wright El Paso Electric Company, Slider One comment

Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation

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“The Spider”

2025-06-22 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

2025-06-21 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider 2 comments
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“The First Livestreamed Genocide”

2025-06-21 Rich Wright Slider, War Crimes Leave a comment

From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted

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I Don’t Like Bullies

2025-06-20 Rich Wright Politics, Slider 2 comments

On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not

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Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

2025-06-18 Rich Wright Bridge of the Americas, Mexico, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision

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