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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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  • “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 Rich Wright

    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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“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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The Spirit of Memphis Quartet – The Atomic Telephone

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Saturday Matinee – Exxon Exposed: Greenpeace Tricks Top Lobbyists into Naming Senators They Use to Block Climate Action

2021-07-10 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Neil LeVang – Ghost Riders in the Sky

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Friday Short – My Loyal Audience

2021-07-09 elrichiboy black comedy, Friday Short Leave a comment
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Tan and Sober Gentlemen – Rabbit in a Log

2021-07-08 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Alternatino – Latin Pop Star, White Audience

2021-07-07 elrichiboy alternatino Leave a comment
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The Subscription Economy

2021-07-07 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economics, Inequality, Slider, The Economy, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

Here’s a sobering piece I found on Medium.com: For years, banks and ultra-elites (bankrolled by years of money-printing, corporate socialism,

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The Time America Almost Stopped Climate Change

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You Are Paying the Highest Residential Property Tax Rate in the United States

2021-07-06 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

Today the El Paso City Council is voting to issue another $96 million in Certificates of Obligation. Certificates of Obligation

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Clifton Hicks – Washington Blues

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Ongoing Problems With El Paso Children’s Hospital

2021-07-05 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, El Paso Children's Hospital, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 2 comments

This just in, from the El Paso Inc.: Troubles may be mounting for El Paso Children’s Hospital, which saw its

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  • The 1915 Collision of the Iron Cure and the Harrison Narcotic Act in El Paso
  • Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?
  • We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice
  • Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”
  • “How Ciudad Juárez Spiralled Into Cartel Madness”

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