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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”

    2026-05-30 elrichiboy
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  • “Blackout”

    2026-05-24 elrichiboy
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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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“Punch-Drunk”

2022-05-13 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Retrovision – El Paso, (Temporary) Home of the Carpetbaggers

2022-05-13 Rich Wright City Management, Letters to the Editor, Media, Retrovision, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

This post originally appeared on 10 February 2021. You know why there’s so little crime in El Paso? Because we

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Tommy Gonzalez Has Been Cheating On Us

2022-05-11 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 11 comments

You’ve heard the news. El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez is among three other finalists being considered for city manager

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Climate Town — Your Money Is Cheating On You

2022-05-11 elrichiboy Climate Town Leave a comment
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Cantinflas in “Por Mis Pistolas”

2022-05-10 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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Warren Buffett — The Rich Are Winning the Class War

2022-05-10 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

He said it in a New York Times article back in 2006. “There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said,

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“Meet Boston Blackie”

2022-05-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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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”

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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”

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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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  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”
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  • Memories, Reflections and Connections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part Two

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