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  • “The Gary Webb Story: CIA, Cocaine, and a Media Assassination”

    2026-04-11 elrichiboy
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  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela

    2026-04-09 elrichiboy

    If you are interested in the Torre Centinela that is almost fully operational in downtown Ciudad Juárez, then you should read this story from RestOfWorld.org.

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  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

    2026-04-05 elrichiboy
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  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”

    2026-04-03 Rich Wright

    (Scene: Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon.) Secretary Pete Hegseth: . . . and that, gentlemen, is how we will end this war.

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  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

    2026-03-31 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Data centers are a burning issue in the Paso del Norte borderland of 2026. Plans to open a giant data center complex

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  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

    2026-03-22 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martinez Given the recent disturbing revelations about Cesar Chávez, it seems certain that the local Border Highway’s name will be changed.  Many

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  • “Hangover Square”

    2026-03-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Rise and Ruin of the Coca-Cola Family”

    2026-03-21 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso is Falling

    2026-03-13 Rich Wright

    The trusted institutions we count on are letting us down. The streets are crumbling. The water utility can’t keep the water flowing. Texas Gas Services

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  • The 13th Anniversary of the Killing of Daniel Saenz

    2026-03-08 Rich Wright

    Today is the 13th anniversary of the day that El Paso Police Department Officer Jose Flores shot and killed the handcuffed prisoner Daniel Saenz in

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  • Lucille Ball in “The Dark Corner”

    2026-03-08 elrichiboy
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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part Two: Preface and Postscript to “Black Sunday”

    2026-03-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson On a recent sunny day, tourists and locals on Puerto Vallarta’s ocean front boardwalk, the Malecon, watched intensely as a Mexican navy

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Johnny Cash – “I Saw the Light”

2022-07-31 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Harvest of the Poor: The Illegal Kidney Market

2022-07-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Defending the Big River

2022-07-28 Kent Paterson El Paso Water, Slider, The Environment 2 comments

by Kent Paterson Every river searches for the seaEvery life runs its own destinyCanyons white and wild stretches calm and

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Joni Mitchell – “Both Sides Now”

2022-07-26 elrichiboy Music One comment
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Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in “Arch of Triumph”

2022-07-24 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Il Divo – “Amazing Grace”

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Rich Wright for District 8 Campaign Launch Party

2022-07-23 elrichiboy Political Advertisement 10 comments

I am having the official Rich Wright for District 8 campaign launch party next Thursday, July 28, at Hope &

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“The Playboy King of Thailand”

2022-07-23 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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$315,394.54 in Campaign Donations

2022-07-22 elrichiboy Elections, Politics Leave a comment

That’s how much Joe Pickett has in his campaign coffer for his run against incumbent Isabel Salcido for her seat

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Hermanos Gutiérrez – “El Bueno y El Malo”

2022-07-20 elrichiboy Music 2 comments

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“The Turning Point”

2022-07-17 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Mercy Worship – Psalm 47 (Shout to God)

2022-07-17 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“Yemen’s Dirty War”

2022-07-16 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Why Your Taxes Are So High

2022-07-15 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Urban Planning 3 comments

Because the City won’t stop spending money. While we’re catching our breath (this is, after all, an election year) the

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“Explaining the Pandemic to my Past Self Part 2”

2022-07-15 elrichiboy Explaining the Pandemic, Video Leave a comment
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“Spare Key”

2022-07-15 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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You Know Who Knows Coups

2022-07-13 elrichiboy National Policy One comment

From Reuters.com: John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said

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What Gives?

2022-07-13 Rich Wright Cost of Living, How to Live in El Paso, Slider 2 comments

Sunday I went to Cloudcroft. The high temperature was 72. The low was 58. You should try it. Nowhere on

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“El Pecado de Ser Pobre”

2022-07-12 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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“Explaining the Pandemic to my Past Self”

2022-07-12 elrichiboy Explaining the Pandemic, Video Leave a comment
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  • “The Gary Webb Story: CIA, Cocaine, and a Media Assassination”
  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela
  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”
  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”
  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

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