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

    2026-04-19 elrichiboy
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  • “How Ciudad Juárez Spiralled Into Cartel Madness”

    2026-04-18 elrichiboy

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  • “Now We Know Their Names”

    2026-04-17 elrichiboy
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  • Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond

    2026-04-16 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson After a lapse of nearly one year-and-a-half, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) conducted a community meeting the evening of April 7

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  • Paul and Julie Ten Years After

    2026-04-13 Rich Wright

    On or about 05 October 2016, I took Paul and Julie to Juarez. Paul and Julie were ballroom dancers. Like The Sound of Music. Okay

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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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Paul Foster is Selling Land in his Campo del Sol Development

2025-09-19 Rich Wright City Council, El Paso Water, Public Service Board, Slider, Water, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council unanimously approved an amendment to a 2020 incentives agreement to allow for the sale

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“The Eyes of Chihuahua”

2025-09-18 Rich Wright Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider, Surveillance Leave a comment

Here’s a story from TexasObserver.org about the Torre Centinela, that surveillance tower going up in downtown Ciudad Juarez that will

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The Project Jupiter Chronicles: A Charged Countdown to September 19

2025-09-17 Kent Paterson CRRUA, Economic Development, New Mexico, Project Jupiter, Slider, Sunland Park, The Environment, Water Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson September 19 looms as a fateful day in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. That’s when the Doña

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El Paso Matter’s Fight for Higher Taxes

2025-09-15 Rich Wright Deck Park, Economic Development, El Paso Matters, Slider 2 comments

Two recent articles on ElPasoMatters.com portray El Paso as a low-tax city. Here’s a snippet from one of the pieces:

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“The Scar” aka “Hollow Triumph”

2025-09-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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“The Dramatic Fall of the Norman Dynasty”

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Heath Haussaman on Project Jupiter

2025-09-11 Rich Wright Economic Development, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park One comment

Here’s veteran journalist Heath Haussaman with a deep dive into the $165 billion Project Jupiter that’s proposed for Sunland Park.

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“The Fat Man”

2025-09-07 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee One comment
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“Rollo: The Dark Age Warrior Who Became King Of Normandy”

2025-09-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Taxes, Tax Breaks and a Texas Two-Step

2025-09-05 Kent Paterson Economic Development, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson You may or may not have heard about Project Jupiter by now. No, it’s not the latest

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“He Ran All the Way”

2025-08-31 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“BARRIO AZTECA: Cartel Wars on the Texas Border”

2025-08-30 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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Leave It to the D.A.

2025-08-26 Rich Wright District Attorney, El Paso Police Department, James Montoya, Slider One comment

Here’s one of those stories from the El Paso Times that made the front page of the dead tree edition

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Retrovision: El Paso Police Are Taser Happy and the El Paso Times Doesn’t Want You to Know It

2025-08-25 Rich Wright El Paso Police Department, El Paso Times, Slider Leave a comment

This story originally appeared on 8 December 2022. Here’s a few paragraphs from Wednesday’s dead tree front page story of

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“The Glass Wall”

2025-08-24 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee, Uncategorized Leave a comment
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“Cartels, Tariffs and Fentanyl, the US-Mexico Border Showdown Investigated | Foreign Correspondent”

2025-08-23 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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Another Mental Health Crisis Homicide at the Hands of EPPD

2025-08-23 Rich Wright Dionne Mack, El Paso Police Department, Slider Leave a comment

The El Paso Police Department has a thing for killing people having mental health crises. Check out this latest body-cam

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An Economic Forecast

2025-08-22 Rich Wright El Paso, Juarez, Slider, The Economy Leave a comment

Here’s part of an editorial from El Diario de Juarez:1 Ayer informamos que, a tasa mensual, la producción de la

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The Purge is Coming

2025-08-21 Rich Wright Immigration, Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a video about McAllen, Texas. El Paso might not be next, but it’s on the list.

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“Mister 880”

2025-08-17 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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