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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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  • Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”

    2026-04-19 elrichiboy
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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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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

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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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City Spin

2021-11-06 elrichiboy City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

ElPasoMatters.com has A Q&A with Joe Pickett on his upcoming run for City Council, in which City City spokesperson Laura

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Saturday Matinee – The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

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What’s Next? After Voters Reject Albuquerque Soccer Stadium Bond

2021-11-05 elrichiboy MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Trench 3 comments

From Albuquerque’s channel 13, KRQE.com: After voters soundly rejected the idea of a publicly financed soccer stadium, New Mexico United

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The Worms Turn

2021-11-05 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Gensler, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Did you see this item from Monday’s City Council Work Session agenda? Discussion and action on the development of cost

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