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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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<3 Juárez

2022-02-11 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment
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Community Forum on Education Feb12

2022-02-10 elrichiboy Education 4 comments

Event:  Community Forum on Education Date:    Saturday, February 12, 2022 Time:   10 AM to 1 PM Place:  Jefferson/Silva

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The Future of I-10

2022-02-09 Rich Wright Slider, The Trench, TxDOT 3 comments

TxDOT has released a couple of proposals for the freeway downtown. They’re not pretty. Here’s a link (with an opportunity

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Clavillazo in El Chismoso de la Ventana

2022-02-08 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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Book Presentation – Latinx El Paso: Odyssey of a Mexican American/Hispanic Community

2022-02-08 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, shows Leave a comment

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Oscar Martinez on his new book, Latinx El Paso: Odyssey of a Mexican

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Climate Town – All These Houses Suck

2022-02-08 elrichiboy Climate Town Leave a comment
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Blame It On the Strategic Plan

2022-02-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

If you want to know what’s wrong with governance in El Paso, you have to look no further than the

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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Tribute to George Harrison

2022-02-07 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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The Regressive Nature of Property Taxes

2022-02-06 Rich Wright Economics, Inequality, Taxes 4 comments

Let’s look at wealth. For a working man, or woman, most of their wealth is represented by their homes. Homes

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Olivia de Havilland in The Dark Mirror

2022-02-06 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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Chester DT Baldwin – I still Hear Mama Praying

2022-02-06 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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H. G. Wells – Time Traveler

2022-02-05 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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My Letter to the Malcolm Baldridge Foundation

2022-02-04 Rich Wright City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Hi y’all, I see where El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez received the E David Spong Lifetime Achievement Award from

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Friday Short – The Boogeys

2022-02-04 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Louis Prima – Night Train

2022-02-03 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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City of Dust’s John Mulhouse on Ghost Towns of New Mexico

2022-02-02 elrichiboy City of Dust, Video Leave a comment
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Unqualified Doctors at El Paso Children’s Hospital?

2022-02-01 Rich Wright El Paso Children's Hospital, Slider 2 comments

ElPasoPolitics.com reports on some of the shenanigans going on at the El Paso Children’s Hospital: Thomas Mayes is a pediatric

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Downtown in the Age of COVID

2022-01-31 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Downtown, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

Making downtown vibrant was always a tough task. COVID made it harder. Sealed office buildings where the windows don’t open?

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Si Yo Fuera Millonario

2022-01-25 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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Districting Meeting Wednesday, January 26

2022-01-25 elrichiboy Redistricting, Slider One comment

The Distrticting Commission meets tomorrow at 4 p.m. in Council Chambers. Also, the Districting Commission is having regular meetings in

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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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