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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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  • Economic Undevelopment

    2026-02-25 Rich Wright

    According to ElDiario.mx, El Paso lost 750 jobs in the last four months of 2025. Juarez lost 17,000 maquila jobs in all of 2025. That

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  • Puerto Vallarta Travel Log, Part One: Hurricane Mencho

    2026-02-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Fear, hunger, thirst and uncertainty. That’s what folks in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco lived through on February 22, now undoubtedly one of the

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  • “Where Texas Begins”

    2026-02-21 Rich Wright

    The latest (several years old) tagline from Visit El Paso/the Convention and Visitors Center/Destination El Paso appears to be “Where Texas Begins”. Of course Texas

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  • Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall in “Confidential Agent”

    2026-02-15 elrichiboy
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  • “You’re Fired!”

    2026-02-14 Rich Wright

    Remember when Donald Trump’s tagline was “You’re fired!” One might think that he’d be pulling that old standard out again, what with the clown car

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  • “YEMEN: A Forgotten Earth Where Time Still Breathes”

    2026-02-14 elrichiboy
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  • “Love in a Man’s World”

    2026-02-08 elrichiboy
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Sunday Matinee – Shoot to Kill

2021-02-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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” Billionaire Philanthropy is a ‘PR Scam’ “

2021-02-28 elrichiboy Slider, Taxes, The Economy 2 comments

Here’s an interesting take from the CEO who raised his employees base annual pay to $70,000 a year. The CEO

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Solomon Burke – Since I Met You Jesus

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Plastic Recycling is an Actual Scam

2021-02-26 elrichiboy Public Health, The Environment One comment

Reduce. Reuse. Refuse to buy any more plastic.

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Friday Short – Miro

2021-02-26 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Community Forum for EPISD Board of Trustees Candidates

2021-02-26 elrichiboy Education, Elections One comment

This came in from Xavier Miranda: We would like to cordially invite you to participate at our Community Forum for

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Tim Timebomb and Friends – She’s Drunk All The Time

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Violent Femmes – Gone Daddy Gone

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The American Dreamer

2021-02-24 elrichiboy Immigration Leave a comment

Here’s a story in New Yorker about the life of a successful Dreamer and the sacrifices her parents made. The

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Tom Waits – God’s Away On Business

2021-02-23 elrichiboy Music One comment
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City of Dust – Pearce, Arizona

2021-02-23 elrichiboy City of Dust Leave a comment

Getting on the Ghost Town Trail Pearce, Arizona marks the beginning of the Ghost Town Trail. Start heading southwest out

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Agenda Review 15 February 202i Recap

2021-02-23 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Quality of Life Projects, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Here’s the video of the 15 February 2021 El Paso City Council Agenda Review meeting. I watched (most of) it

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Charlie Crockett – Lesson in Depression

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Smoking Time Jazz Club – Percolatin’ Blues

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Some Lawyers are Sleazebags

2021-02-21 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Downtown Historic District, Slider 4 comments

There is a horrific story in this week’s El Paso Inc., about an older Las Cruces woman who was essentially

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Sunday Matinee – Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot

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The Jubilaires – Noah

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Willi Carlisle – Angels

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Tom Petty – Free Fallin’

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Armed Thugs Attack Veteran at El Paso V.A.

2021-02-20 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, News, Slider 7 comments

El Paso is in the national spotlight again. Again, it’s for all the wrong reasons. From Forbes.com: Shortly after he

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