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  • “The Other Woman”

    2025-10-19 elrichiboy
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  • “The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

    2025-10-18 elrichiboy

    Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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  • Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-10-17 Rich Wright

    Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing organizations. In response to the

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  • Ninja Convention

    2025-10-16 Rich Wright

    The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade on Montana last night. Kudos

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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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Who Killed El Paso?

2025-07-21 Rich Wright ballpark, Economic Development, population, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 5 comments

El Paso’s population growth used to be robust. Right up till 2012. From 2010 to 2012, the population of the

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Cary Grant in “Mr. Lucky”

2025-07-20 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Tunnel Houses: Living in an Ultra-thin Tube”

2025-07-19 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Earl Grant “Autumn Leaves”

2025-07-18 elrichiboy Juarez, Music, Slider Leave a comment
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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”

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“Archimedes – The Greatest Inventor of the Ancient World”

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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”

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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”

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