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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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  • “Where Texas Begins”

    2026-02-21 Rich Wright

    The latest (several years old) tagline from Visit El Paso/the Convention and Visitors Center/Destination El Paso appears to be “Where Texas Begins”. Of course Texas

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  • Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall in “Confidential Agent”

    2026-02-15 elrichiboy
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  • “You’re Fired!”

    2026-02-14 Rich Wright

    Remember when Donald Trump’s tagline was “You’re fired!” One might think that he’d be pulling that old standard out again, what with the clown car

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  • “YEMEN: A Forgotten Earth Where Time Still Breathes”

    2026-02-14 elrichiboy
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  • “Love in a Man’s World”

    2026-02-08 elrichiboy
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  • Mexico: Where Women Increasingly Rule

    2026-02-07 Kent Paterson

    by Kent Paterson In case you haven’t noticed, political power in Mexico is increasingly in the hands of women. That reality was proudly stated by

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  • MEXICO’S FORCED LAND CESSIONS TO THE UNITED STATES

    2026-02-02 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martínez The year 2026 (on February 2) marks the 178th anniversary of the signing of one of the most important treaties in

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  • Gone Fishing

    2026-01-28 J. Eugenio Cotera E.

    by J. Eugenio Cotera E. As a young kid growing up in the vast and sparse Chihuahuan Desert, I believed that fish simply materialized wherever

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  • The Anti-Immigrant Family Judge

    2026-01-27 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org: Attorneys with the immigration advocacy group Estrella del Paso last month asked that District Court Judge Marlene Gonzalez recuse herself

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The Open Insulin Project

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Omicron and the Sputnik

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Fooling Pete Buttigieg

2021-11-29 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning, Veronica Escobar 8 comments

Vic Kolenc covers the downtown freeway deck park in this story from the El Paso Times: A project to build

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Sunday Matinee – Alfred HItchcock’s Young and Innocent

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Saturday Matinee – The Opioid Crisis is Much Worse Than You Think

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Friday Short – Roy

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I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

2021-11-23 Rich Wright ballpark, Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT 11 comments

I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing the traffic coming

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Sunday Matinee – Call Northside 777

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Tenebrae – Miserere Mei, Deus

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David Romo vs. Adair Margo

2021-11-20 elrichiboy History, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

From Adair Margo’s guest column in the El Paso Times: Since 2016, a falsehood has been spread nationwide about El

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Saturday Matinee – The Man Who Knew Too Much

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Friday Short – Green Luck

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The Dead South – People Are Strange

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Max For the Win!

2021-11-15 elrichiboy El Paso Times, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

Recently, “Former First Lady” Adair Margo wrote a guest column for the El Paso Times. Since 2016, a falsehood has

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Sunday Matinee – Akira Kurosawa’s Drunken Angel

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Hezekiah Walker – Every Praise

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Saturday Matinee – America’s Broken Dream: The Middle-Class Families Living in Motels

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Friday Short – Oblivio

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Are We Finally Getting Good Government?

2021-11-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Downtown Historic District, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Or is it a trick? From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council met Tuesday to once again discuss whether seek to

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Amateurs From Kalamazoo

2021-11-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider Leave a comment

From a Time.com article, titled Two Rich Men Decided to Fund a Failing City. Some People Say They Made It

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