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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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  • 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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“Why Is El Paso’s Property tax Rate So High?”

2021-08-27 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

That’s the teaser on the El Paso Times landing page today. If you click on it, the story is headlined

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Rich People’s Hobbies

2021-08-26 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, Slider Leave a comment

Some rich people collect art. Some collect racehorses. Some collect cars. In El Paso, some rich people collect professional sports

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Sunday Matinee – Tight Spot

2021-08-22 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Chris Rodrigues & the Spoon Lady – Angels in Heaven

2021-08-22 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War

2021-08-21 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Room 88

2021-08-20 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Veratasium – Why Gravity is NOT a Force

2021-08-18 elrichiboy Veritasium Leave a comment
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Vice News – This Is What Winning Looks Like

2021-08-16 elrichiboy Slider, World News One comment

Here’s a Vice News video from 2013 that deals with the current political crisis in Afghanistan. Do you reckon the

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Climate Town – Exxon Lobbyist Caught on Camera Going Full Cartoon Villain

2021-08-16 elrichiboy Climate Town Leave a comment
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Sunday Matinee – Otto Preminger’s Where the Sidewalk Ends

2021-08-15 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Carl Jackson and Val Storey – Little Mountain Church

2021-08-15 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – In the Shadow of 9/11

2021-08-14 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Program

2021-08-14 elrichiboy Juarez, Mexico Leave a comment

Here’s an article from Insight Crime profiling “the most important newer criminal actors in Mexico.” La Línea began life as

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Friday Short – Hyperuranios

2021-08-13 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Count is Out

2021-08-13 elrichiboy population, Slider 4 comments

The census data for the County of El Paso has been released, and it’s screwy. In the data headed Population

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Why Your Taxes Are So High

2021-08-13 elrichiboy Alexsandra Annello, Cassandra Hernandez, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, City Management, Downtown, Economic Development, Isabel Salcido, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

El Paso has the highest residential property tax rates in the country. Our elected officials used to say that was

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Election Rumors

2021-08-11 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Elections, Slider 2 comments

Believe it or not, election season is right around the corner. Lots of local offices are up for grabs in

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Drive By Truckers – Gravity’s Gone

2021-08-10 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“We Must Not Go Back to Normal”

2021-08-09 elrichiboy Economics, Inequality, Perspectives Leave a comment
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Sunday Matinee – Suddenly

2021-08-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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  • (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
  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

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