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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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Friday Short – Roy

2021-11-26 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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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

2021-11-21 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Tenebrae – Miserere Mei, Deus

2021-11-21 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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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

2021-11-20 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Green Luck

2021-11-19 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Dead South – People Are Strange

2021-11-17 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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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

2021-11-13 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Oblivio

2021-11-12 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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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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The City of Dust Web Store is Now Open!

2021-11-09 elrichiboy City of Dust 2 comments

Frequent contributor John Mulhouse has opened a City of Dust webstore. There, you can order Mr. Mulhouse’s books, as well

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What Do You Want From City Government?

2021-11-09 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 6 comments

The types at City Hall think City Government should be a growth industry. So do the people that benefit from

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Sunday Matinee – Hollywood Story

2021-11-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Retrovision: Chime the Eff Up

2021-11-07 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, Isabel Salcido, Laura Cruz-Acosta, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 12 July 2021. Did you take the City of El Paso’s budget survey? It was

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Oliver Schnyder – J. S. Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

2021-11-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments
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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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