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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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  • “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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Friday Short – Guide Me Home

2021-12-24 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Movie Night – Jorge Negrete and Maria Felix in El Peñón de Las Ánimas

2021-12-21 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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Will You Cross a Picket Line to Go To the Sun Bowl? (Updated)

2021-12-20 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider, sports One comment

From 3NewsNow.com, an Omaha, Nebraska, teevee station: Monday marks 11 weeks since hundreds of workers at the Kellogg’s plant in

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The Ongoing Environmental Disaster

2021-12-20 elrichiboy Slider, The Environment One comment

Since August 15, El Paso Water has been pumping raw sewage into the Rio Grande. Ten million gallons a day.

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Sunday Matinee – The Man With the Golden Arm

2021-12-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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God Bless Adair

2021-12-19 elrichiboy Adair Margo, Gensler, Heritage Tourism, History, Slider, The Arena 7 comments

“Former First Lady of El Paso” Adair Margo just won’t let it go. From a guest column in today’s El

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Barockmusik zum Advent

2021-12-19 elrichiboy Music 2 comments
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Old Sheepdog Brewery Releases Segundo Barrio Vienna Style Lager

2021-12-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider 3 comments
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Saturday Matinee – The Houses that Can’t be Built in America – The Missing Middle

2021-12-18 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary One comment
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Friday Short – Floaters

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LatinX El Paso : Odyssey of a Mexican American/Hispanic Community by Oscar Martinez

2021-12-16 elrichiboy History, Media, Slider, Uncategorized 4 comments

Latinx El Paso provides a historical and contemporary overview of the Mexican American/Hispanic population in one of the major urban centers

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Vicente Fernandez in Dios Los Cría

2021-12-14 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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EPISD’s New Superintendent

2021-12-14 elrichiboy School Districts, Slider 5 comments

The El Paso Independent School District has a new Superintendent. From ElPasoMatters.com: The El Paso Independent School District Board of

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El Paso in Belgium

2021-12-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso One comment

A Belgian amusement park has a ride called “El Paso”. Draw your own conclusions.

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The Economic Impact of Arenas: A Brief Survey

2021-12-13 elrichiboy Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Welfare for the Rich 9 comments

The El Paso City Council recently approved the following motion: “To direct the City Manager or designee to hire a

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Sunday Matinee – The Brasher Doubloon

2021-12-12 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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The Piano Guys – O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

2021-12-12 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Do We Live in a Simulation?

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The Deck Park and Trail Connectivity

2021-12-10 elrichiboy Deck Park, Slider 2 comments

Deck plaza advocate Tracy Yellen had this to say in a recent guest column in the El Paso Times: A

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Friday Short – Napo

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  • 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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