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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 Target Pot?

2021-07-21 elrichiboy District Attorney, Law Enforcement, Marijuana, Yvonne Rosales One comment

Our new District Attorney Yvonne Rosales recently asked City Council to give her office $72,000 for a machine that can

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Climate Town – Can’t We Just Buy Our Way Out Of Climate Change?

2021-07-21 elrichiboy Climate Town Leave a comment
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Xavier Miranda on Back to School

2021-07-21 Xavier Miranda Education, Guest Column, School Districts, Slider One comment

Teachers, students, and parents are excited about returning to school, and eager to resume face-to-face instruction. However, adequate preparations are

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Veratasium – The Biggest Myth in Education

2021-07-20 elrichiboy Education, Veritasium Leave a comment
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Lost Highway

2021-07-20 elrichiboy Public Transportation, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning Leave a comment

Here’s a highway article from the Texas Observer: In late 2020, TxDOT released renderings for I-35 that showed a 20-lane

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The New DA

2021-07-19 elrichiboy District Attorney, Law Enforcement, Slider, Yvonne Rosales 3 comments

The office of District Attorney for the County of El Paso is the most powerful elected office in El Paso.

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Sunday Matinee – The 13th Letter

2021-07-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Ry Cooder – Jesus On The Mainline

2021-07-18 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Cities on Speed: Bogota Change / The Inspiring Story Antanas Mockus

2021-07-17 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Our Democracy No Longer Represents the People.”

2021-07-16 elrichiboy TEDx Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Gold

2021-07-16 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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“Sonny Liston – Boxing’s Most Intimidating and Unwanted Champion”

2021-07-15 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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Tommy G’s $400K

2021-07-15 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

KTSM.com (and others) report that City Manager Tommy Gonzalez is set to make almost $400,000 a year. El Paso City

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More Lies From People Who Should Know Better

2021-07-14 elrichiboy City Management, El Paso Times, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks One comment

I read the El Paso Times so you won’t have to, and I’ve noticed a disturbing pattern. Every time the

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Climate Town – How the Auto Industry Carjacked the American Dream

2021-07-14 elrichiboy Climate Change, Climate Town Leave a comment
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Steve’n’Seagulls – Thunderstruck

2021-07-13 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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El Paso Children’s Hospital’s Identity Crisis

2021-07-13 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, El Paso Children's Hospital, Slider One comment

David Crowder, in last week’s El Paso Inc., wrote: Children’s, a nonprofit organization under El Paso County’s University Medical Center,

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“This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things”

2021-07-12 elrichiboy Veritasium, Video Leave a comment
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Chime the Eff Up

2021-07-12 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks 3 comments

Did you take the City of El Paso’s budget survey? It was called Chime In!, and it was available on

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Sunday Matinee – The Great Man

2021-07-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One 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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