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  • July 12 Border Policy Protest Planned for Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

    2025-07-09 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Under the slogan “Humanize Don’t Militarize,” New Mexico and Texas activists intend to put their constitutional rights into practice this coming Saturday,

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  • Dystopia, USA

    2025-07-08 Rich Wright

    Imagine masked U.S. government agents kidnapping people off the street and sending them to concentration camps. Dystopian fiction? Nah. It’s happening today, in these United

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  • Immigration and Detention Witness

    2025-07-07 Xavier Miranda

    by Xavier Miranda I spent the morning of Friday, June 20,  at the U. S. Courthouse in downtown El Paso, TX observing the Immigration Court

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  • Watching the Watchers

    2025-07-02 Rich Wright

    I told you about the Torre Centinela that’s going up in downtown Juarez. Well, Juarez isn’t the only city in Mexico with a Sentinel System.

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  • EPEC’s Rate Increase

    2025-06-30 Rich Wright

    In this ElPasoMatters.com post, Diego Mendoza-Myers writes about EPEC’s plans to build out its system and what that means for EPEC’s customers. The El Paso

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  • “Intrigue”

    2025-06-29 elrichiboy
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  • “Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

    2025-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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  • “The Spider”

    2025-06-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

    2025-06-21 elrichiboy
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  • “The First Livestreamed Genocide”

    2025-06-21 Rich Wright

    From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves.

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  • I Don’t Like Bullies

    2025-06-20 Rich Wright

    On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not bullies anymore.” Wait a minute.

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The Last Corrida

2025-01-03 James Sawtelle History, Juarez One comment

By James Sawtelle That Sunday afternoon I had time to cut loose and go with Richard Grenier (my high school

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Humphrey Bogart in”Knock on Any Door”

2024-12-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“To Catch a Genius”

2024-12-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Finger Man”

2024-12-22 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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A Letter From David Saucedo

2024-12-19 David Saucedo El Paso Children's Hospital, Slider One comment

Friends, On December 9, my legal team filed a brief in response to the El Paso Children’s Hospital (EPCH) motion

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The Obscene Entitlement of Cassandra Hernandez

2024-12-18 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, Slider 3 comments

You’ve read the news. From ElPasoTimes.com: El Paso city Rep. Cassandra Hernandez’s husband was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault

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Bernie Sanders on the Military Budget

2024-12-16 elrichiboy Politics, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

From TheGuardian.com: Today in the United States, 60% of our people live paycheck to paycheck, 85 million people are uninsured

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“Sun Tzu – The Art of War”

2024-12-14 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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In Unprecedented Event, Juárez’s City Government Honors Dirty War Relatives and Survivors

2024-12-14 Kent Paterson Juarez, Slider One comment

By Kent Paterson Standing at the entrance to Ciudad Juárez’s old city hall, Judith Galarza recalled the days of yore

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Schuster and Stanton: The Consequences of Incompetence

2024-12-09 elrichiboy City Management, Dionne Mack, Slider 4 comments

Have you driven down Schuster lately? From Stanton to Brown Schuster has a new bike lane. The City has eliminated

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“New York Confidential”

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“Riding the Line”

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Sniper Drones Coming Soon!

2024-12-05 Rich Wright Slider, World News Leave a comment

Here’s a story from NPR: The quadcopter is what many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip call a small sniper drone

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Local Democrats have lost their way.

2024-12-02 Rich Wright César Blanco, Elections, Politics, Renard Johnson, Slider One comment

Prominent Democrats in El Paso have endorsed Renard Johnson in the race for El Paso mayor. Mr. Johnson is also

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“Portland Exposé”

2024-12-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Smart Insects – The astonishing intelligence of bumblebees, wasps, & co.”

2024-11-30 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“And Then There Were None”

2024-11-24 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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Big Entertainment Projects Are Bad for El Paso

2024-11-22 Rich Wright Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

They pitch these projects as drivers of economic development, but they stifle the monetization of local culture, and tax (literally)

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The Expected Environmental Catastrophe

2024-11-17 Rich Wright Downtown, International Relations, Juarez, Local Heroes, Mexico, Slider, The Environment 2 comments

Here’s a story (in Spanish) from La Jornada about the impending railroad accident that imperils Cd. Juarez and El Paso:

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“Hostile Border”

2024-11-17 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Occasionally I meet someone in downtown Juarez who has been deported from the United States who doesn’t speak Spanish, or

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