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  • UTEP’s Professional College Athletes

    2026-04-27 elrichiboy

    “Hookers and a Camaro aren’t going to cut it anymore.” — My friend Mora I think UTEP should be a big party school, because it’s

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  • “Surprise Witness”

    2026-04-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Four Dead in Five Seconds”

    2026-04-25 elrichiboy
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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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Saturday Matinee – How Biology Beats Cheaters: A Lesson in Corporate Accountability

2021-06-12 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short – We Know What You Did During Lockdown

2021-06-11 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Prince – Cream

2021-06-10 elrichiboy Music One comment
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La Feria on Avenida Juarez

2021-06-08 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Quarantine, Slider, What to Do 6 comments

There’s a big push to make Avenida Juarez an international tourist destination again. Never mind the big border security apparatus

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Insatiable Greed

2021-06-08 elrichiboy Economics, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

Wealth and income inequality is a big problem. Remember Supply Side Economics? From Wikipedia: In 1981, Reagan significantly reduced the

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Joe T. Hodo – Fifis: ¡La Flandemia no existe!

2021-06-07 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo Leave a comment
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Sunday Matinee – The Furies

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Alan Jackson – In The Garden

2021-06-06 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Are We Ready For The Next Crisis?

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Friday Short – What In The World

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Alternatino – The Truth About Border Crossers

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More Good News From the Folks Running the City

2021-06-04 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, El Paso Electric Company, Liar Liar, Slider One comment

Good news, everybody. I know you’ve been worried about those investors from JP Morgan Chase. You know, the ones behind

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Sunday Matinee – Soldier of Fortune

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Jerry Lee Lewis – Just a Closer Walk With Thee

2021-05-30 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Why the China Covid Lab-Leak Theory is Being Taken Seriously

2021-05-29 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The Children’s Hospital Lawsuit

2021-05-26 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, El Paso Children's Hospital, Slider 2 comments

Here’s a story about the El Paso Children’s Hospital, headlined Family Alleges Profit Motives Played Role in 3-Year-Old’s Death –

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Losing Faith In Our Institutions, Part 2

2021-05-26 Rich Wright Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, El Paso Police Department, El Paso Times, Law Enforcement, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The "Progressives" Leave a comment

Truth, Justice, and the American Way. These days, asking if truth and justice are the American way is a legitimate

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Losing Faith In Our Institutions

2021-05-25 Rich Wright Coronavirus, Slider 3 comments

Here’s a story from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that posits pretty conclusively that COVID originated in a lab

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Remember Jane Shang?

2021-05-24 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Joyce Wilson, Slider 2 comments

After Deputy City Manager Jane Shang left El Paso City Government with eleven months paid leave that made her eligible

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Border Boo Boos

2021-05-24 Kent Paterson Media, Mexico, Migration 2 comments

By Kent Paterson We’ve withstood some pretty fierce winds in the region lately. But so far, fortunately, no wind has

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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?

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