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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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“The Mystery of the Vampire Skeletons Buried in Ireland”

2022-08-20 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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About Rich Wright

2022-08-19 elrichiboy Political Advertisement, Slider Leave a comment

Even if you don’t know me, we may have met. District 8 is a small town, especially now that it’s

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“Holy Moses”

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The City of Dust Books are Back!

2022-08-17 elrichiboy City of Dust Leave a comment

BACK IN STOCK! The remainder of the reprint of “Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns, Endangered Architecture, and Hidden History” has

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The Petition to Change Elections

2022-08-17 elrichiboy City Council, Elections, Politics, Slider One comment

From Adam Powell at ElPasoTimes.com: Elections in El Paso could look much different if El Pasoans for Fair Elections is

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Tin Tan in “Simbad El Mareado”

2022-08-16 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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The Petition

2022-08-14 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, University Medical Center Leave a comment

You’ve probably heard about the petition circulating in opposition to the issuance of Certificates of Obligation for expansion of the

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Gregory Peck in “The Gunfighter”

2022-08-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Larceny”

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“The Fight for Water – Is Water the New Gold?”

2022-08-13 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary One comment
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“The House on the Cliff”

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A New Advertiser

2022-08-11 Rich Wright ballpark, Slider 2 comments

Good news, everybody. The ballpark has a new advertiser. That should help offset some of the expense that the City

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Do they have a long term plan?

2022-08-11 Rich Wright Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Urban Planning One comment

I mean the richest people in El Paso. The people who got us into this mess. Do they have a

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Roger Corman’s “Swamp Women”

2022-08-10 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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The Border Wager: Santa Teresa’s Pot of Gold

2022-08-10 Kent Paterson Immigration, International Relations, Juarez, Mexico, Slider 4 comments

By Kent Paterson In the annals of border history, U.S.-Mexico relations and global commerce, Ciudad Juárez has often played a

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“El Amor No Es Ciego”

2022-08-09 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano, Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Traffic Studies

2022-08-09 Rich Wright Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 Leave a comment

“It’s the most congested part of the freeway,” they say. I took that picture up there this morning (Tuesday, August

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Big Fibbers at City Hall Redux

2022-08-08 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Somehow I missed the point of City Manager Tommy Gonzalez’ press release about the new budget. When Tommy Gonzalez was

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“The Dark Past”

2022-08-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Can I Give You a Yard Sign?

2022-08-06 elrichiboy Political Advertisement, Slider 4 comments

Do you live in, or near, District 8? Do you have a business in District 8? (The district boundaries recently

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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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