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  • “Guilty Bystander”

    2026-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls”

    2026-06-27 elrichiboy
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  • F. E. Curry And Fate’s Vagary

    2026-06-25 Bob Chessey

    The 1923 trial of F. E. Curry is a tale of a lawman who, from performing official duties, became labeled a criminal and exemplifies the

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  • Golden Cobwebs from the Vault: El Paso’s Aborted Towers

    2026-06-17 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Up for a little historic sightseeing in West Side El Paso? If you happen to be driving west on North Mesa and

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  • You Can Pay When You’re Dead

    2026-06-08 Rich Wright

    Since 1979, the State of Texas has had a program that saves older homeowners from getting their houses seized because of past due property taxes.

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  • The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers

    2026-06-04 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Emerging as one of the hottest issues in the U.S. today, hyperscale AI data centers have become a magnet for citizen activism

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  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”

    2026-05-31 elrichiboy
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  • “Impossible Places: World’s Most Extreme Corners on Earth”

    2026-05-30 elrichiboy
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  • “Blackout”

    2026-05-24 elrichiboy
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  • “Sevres & Sykes–Picot: How the Middle East Was Divided”

    2026-05-23 elrichiboy
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  • Memories, Reflections and Connections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part Two

    2026-05-20 Kent Paterson

    Feature photo: Mercedes Doretti of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team addresses the Las Cruces gathering. (Photo by Cynthia Bejarano) Convened on the 20th anniversary of

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  • “Jealous Badge”

    2026-05-17 elrichiboy
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The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown

2025-09-30 Rich Wright Deck Park, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 7 comments

Downtown El Paso is already barely accessible. What effect will 5 years of freeway and deck park construction have on

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“Park Plaza 605”

2025-09-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Slider Leave a comment
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Social Engineering Chuco-Style

2025-09-26 Rich Wright City Management, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

I live in a neighborhood I call Barrio Heights. Barrio Heights is below Rim Road, close to El Paso High.

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Community First Coalition Forum on Affordable Housing

2025-09-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

The Community First Coalition is hosting a forum on the housing challenges facing the local community. Everybody needs housing, and

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Book Launch: “Juarez | Tales from a Misunderstood City”

2025-09-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment
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You and the Juarez Walking Tour

2025-09-22 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Juarez Walking Tour, Slider 2 comments

I’ve been offering Juarez Walking Tours to anyone willing to pay my meager fee for more than 10 years. Over

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“The Pretender”

2025-09-21 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Europe in the Wake of the Fall of Rome”

2025-09-20 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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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 Project Jupiter, CRRUA, Economic Development, New Mexico, 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”

2025-09-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Heath Haussaman on Project Jupiter

2025-09-11 Rich Wright Sunland Park, Economic Development, New Mexico, Slider 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 Sunday Matinee, Slider 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 Sunland Park, Economic Development, New Mexico, Slider 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 Sunday Matinee, Slider 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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