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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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  • The Biggest Campaign of the Season

    2026-03-02 Rich Wright

    The biggest campaign of this election season isn’t taking place by any candidate on the ballot. The President of the University of Texas at El

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  • Economic Undevelopment

    2026-02-25 Rich Wright

    According to ElDiario.mx, El Paso lost 750 jobs in the last four months of 2025. Juarez lost 17,000 maquila jobs in all of 2025. That

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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part One: Hurricane Mencho

    2026-02-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Fear, hunger, thirst and uncertainty. That’s what folks in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco lived through on February 22, now undoubtedly one of the

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30 Years With the Yakuza

2022-01-08 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Dealing With the Plague

2022-01-07 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Slider, Unpopular Opinion 12 comments

My personal physician and bodyguard had this to say: We should just do away with masking and social distancing and

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Penny and Paul

2022-01-07 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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La Trinchera

2022-01-05 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano, Movie Night Leave a comment
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Snowflake Tommy Gonzalez Doesn’t “Feel Comfortable”

2022-01-05 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Karla Nieman, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? There won’t be any weather- or fire-protection for damaged buildings inside the fenced

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The Democrats’ Problem

2022-01-04 elrichiboy Elections, Politics, Slider 5 comments

The midterms are right around the corner, and the Democrats have not kept a lot of Joe Biden’s campaign promises.

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Sunday Matinee – The Big Night

2022-01-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Alison Krauss – Down to the River to Pray

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Saturday Matinee – The Bizarre Modern Reality of The Simpsons

2022-01-01 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers – Pink Champagne

2021-12-31 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Desde ‘el corazón’ de Juárez van por el derecho a la cultura

2021-12-29 elrichiboy Juarez, Video Leave a comment
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Tom Waits – Hell Broke Luce

2021-12-29 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Redistricting – Why It Matters

2021-12-29 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Redistricting, Slider 3 comments

Did you know that the District 1 representative and the District 8 representative live (or at least are registered to

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Pedro Armendáriz in Rosauro Castro

2021-12-28 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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Back of Library Smells Like Weed

2021-12-28 elrichiboy Video One comment
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Any Takers?

2021-12-27 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider, sports One comment

I’m trying to get up a team to play Washington State in the Sun Bowl next Friday. If you’re down

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El Barrio Park: Attack of the Bureaucrats

2021-12-26 elrichiboy Ben Fyffe, City Management, Local Heroes, Slider, sports, Taxes 12 comments

Here’s a letter that Cruz Morales posted on Facebook: RE: Cease and Desist – EL BARRIO PARK Mr. Morales This

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Sunday Matinee – Assignment Paris

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Son House – John the Revelator

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Saturday Matinee – The Howlin’ Wolf Story

2021-12-25 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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  • “The Rise and Ruin of the Coca-Cola Family”

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