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  • “Jealous Badge”

    2026-05-17 elrichiboy
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  • “The New ‘Oumuamua? Everything We Know So Far About 3I/Atlas”

    2026-05-16 elrichiboy
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  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One

    2026-05-13 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Paula Flores recently retold parts of a painfully long and unresolved story to an audience at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in

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  • “Cry Vegeance”

    2026-05-10 elrichiboy
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  • “The Officer Who Threw the Punch Isn’t the Problem. The Man Who Approved It Is.”

    2026-05-08 elrichiboy
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  • Our Surveillance State

    2026-05-05 Rich Wright

    From APNews.com: Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor

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  • Alec Guiness in “The Detective”

    2026-05-03 elrichiboy
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  • “Stone Age Temple Mystery”

    2026-05-02 elrichiboy
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  • UTEP’s Professional College Athletes

    2026-04-27 Rich Wright

    “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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Joe T. Hodo – La mariguana, la Senadora y el OGT

2021-03-24 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo, Video Leave a comment
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Billy Strings – Watch It Fall

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El Paso’s Trickle Down Economy

2021-03-23 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 17 comments

Remember 50 years ago, when Trickle Down was all the rage? That coincided with maybe the fifth time that City

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Welcome Back

2021-03-22 elrichiboy Navel Gazing Leave a comment

I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting you. Relationships, you know, are hard. These days so many things compete for out attention.

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Saturday Matinee – Stephen Axford: How Fungi Changed My View of the World

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The Greatest Beer Run Ever

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Let Them Drive Cake

2021-03-16 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Public Transportation, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 6 comments

From the El Paso Inc.: A lot of El Paso buses are going from stop to stop empty these days.

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U2 – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

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There’s Hope

2021-03-14 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Trench, Urban Planning, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

Here’s a Tweet from Lina Hidalgo, the County Judge for Harris County, Texas: NEW: The feds have told TXDOT to

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Saturday Matinee – In Search of a Flat Earth

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The Hamiltones – No, Let’s Eat the Musicians

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Friday Short – The Voice in Your Head

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Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band – Too Cool To Dance

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Mellow Corn for the People

2021-03-11 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

I don’t know who came up with this idea, but this product is definitely claiming its brand space. That there

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TxDOT Isn’t Building Us a Deck

2021-03-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, The Trench, Tommy Gonzalez, Urban Planning 9 comments

The cap isn’t TxDOT’s purview. TxDOT does transportation. The deck park is a public amenity. TxDOT is, however, expanding I-10

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International Women’s Day Coverage in the U.S. and Mexico

2021-03-09 Kent Paterson Media, Mexico, Slider, Uncategorized 2 comments

by Kent Paterson Women’s Day Reporting Diverges in U.S. and Mexico  What was the top story in Mexico and the

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Messer Chups – Dracula Hates Killer Icicles

2021-03-08 elrichiboy Music One comment
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Sunday Matinee – Gregory Peck in the Million Pound Note

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Solomon Burke – Down in the Valley

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Saturday Matinee Triple Feature – The 50’s and the 60’s

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El Chuqueño Lately

  • “Jealous Badge”
  • “The New ‘Oumuamua? Everything We Know So Far About 3I/Atlas”
  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One
  • “Cry Vegeance”
  • “The Officer Who Threw the Punch Isn’t the Problem. The Man Who Approved It Is.”

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