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  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One

    2026-05-13 elrichiboy

    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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Greater Vision – Oh, Daniel Prayed

2022-05-08 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“American Scar”

2022-05-07 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“The Rabbit’s Foot”

2022-05-06 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Wider War

2022-05-06 Rich Wright Politics, Slider, World 3 comments

How about this, from the NYTimes.com: The United States has provided intelligence about Russian units that has allowed Ukrainians to

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Los Lobos – Soy Mexico Americano

2022-05-05 elrichiboy Music One comment
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Vicente Fernandez in “El Hijo del Pueblo”

2022-05-03 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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Is This What Corruption Looks Like?

2022-05-03 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 12 comments

From ElPasoTimes.com: The [El Paso City Council] voted to hire a San Francisco-based architecture firm to provide an updated cost

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“The Green Hornet – 10 – The Preying Mantis”

2022-05-02 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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“Between Midnight and Dawn”

2022-05-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Bethel Music and Molly Skaggs – Ain’t No Grave

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“Kadesh 1274 BC”

2022-04-30 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Adios, Club Quince

2022-04-29 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Reliable sources claim that the venerable Club Quince, the boutique bar under the Juan Gabriel mural in downtown Juarez, will

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“The Economy is Great. The Middle Class is Mad.”

2022-04-28 Rich Wright The Economy 3 comments

From Time.com: Jeff Swope felt the first spurt of anger bubble up when he learned in February that his landlord

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“I Am Normal”

2022-04-28 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Retrovision – What’s Wrong With El Paso?

2022-04-26 Rich Wright ballpark, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider 3 comments

This was one of El Chuqueño’s first posts. It originally appeared on 28 August 2012. I like El Paso. What

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Pedro Armendariz and Miroslava in “Ella y yo”

2022-04-26 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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Corn or Flour?

2022-04-26 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

El Pasoans eat a lot of tortillas. I’ve had seven today and it’s not even two o’clock yet. Tacos. Burritos.

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Retrovision – The Big Lie

2022-04-26 Rich Wright Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 23 April 2018. The advocates for the City’s Quality of Life projects pretend that we

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The New Downtown Plan

2022-04-25 Rich Wright Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 10 comments

The El Paso Inc. reported this week that there’s a new plan for downtown El Paso. This month, the DMD,

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“Shakedown”

2022-04-24 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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El Chuqueño Lately

  • 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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