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  • July 12 Border Policy Protest Planned for Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

    2025-07-09 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Under the slogan “Humanize Don’t Militarize,” New Mexico and Texas activists intend to put their constitutional rights into practice this coming Saturday,

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  • Dystopia, USA

    2025-07-08 Rich Wright

    Imagine masked U.S. government agents kidnapping people off the street and sending them to concentration camps. Dystopian fiction? Nah. It’s happening today, in these United

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  • Immigration and Detention Witness

    2025-07-07 Xavier Miranda

    by Xavier Miranda I spent the morning of Friday, June 20,  at the U. S. Courthouse in downtown El Paso, TX observing the Immigration Court

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  • Watching the Watchers

    2025-07-02 Rich Wright

    I told you about the Torre Centinela that’s going up in downtown Juarez. Well, Juarez isn’t the only city in Mexico with a Sentinel System.

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  • EPEC’s Rate Increase

    2025-06-30 Rich Wright

    In this ElPasoMatters.com post, Diego Mendoza-Myers writes about EPEC’s plans to build out its system and what that means for EPEC’s customers. The El Paso

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  • “Intrigue”

    2025-06-29 elrichiboy
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  • “Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

    2025-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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  • “The Spider”

    2025-06-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

    2025-06-21 elrichiboy
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  • “The First Livestreamed Genocide”

    2025-06-21 Rich Wright

    From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves.

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  • I Don’t Like Bullies

    2025-06-20 Rich Wright

    On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not bullies anymore.” Wait a minute.

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You’re the Sucker

2020-09-21 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Library, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

Are you getting value from your city tax dollars? I mean, really. Is the city doing anything for you besides

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Number 17

2020-09-20 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Saturday Documentary: Speaking Frankly: Socialism

2020-09-19 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short: Rebooted

2020-09-18 elrichiboy Friday Short One comment
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Retrovision: The Destruction of Brand El Paso

2020-09-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

This article originally appeared on 17 February 2017. An article with the same name was published yesterday. A brand’s greatest

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Mayor Margo’s Priorities

2020-09-18 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections, Slider 11 comments

From an El Paso Times story about a recent mayoral candidate forum: [Incumbent Mayor Dee] Margo agreed with [candidate Carlos]

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The Destruction of Brand El Paso

2020-09-17 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The "Progressives", Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

What does “El Paso” mean to you? I threw quotes around it because I want to talk about the idea

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The Flying Train: The Rest of the Story

2020-09-16 elrichiboy Video 3 comments
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Melbourne Ska Orchestra: Get Smart

2020-09-15 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Survey: Downtown’s Looking Up

2020-09-14 elrichiboy Downtown, Slider 4 comments

The Downtown Management District conducted a survey recently, and guess what? People are optimistic about our central business district. From

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes

2020-09-13 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Movie Idea

2020-09-12 elrichiboy News Leave a comment

Here’s a story from CBSSports.com Just one day after Conor McGregor tweeted about being drug tested by USADA while on

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Friday Short: Doppelbanger (NSFW, or SFWFH)

2020-09-11 elrichiboy Friday Short, Sci Fi, Video Leave a comment
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No News Is Good News

2020-09-11 elrichiboy Media, News, Slider 5 comments

If you live in El Paso, after October 5, you will no longer be able to get the dead-tree edition

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The Problem With El Paso

2020-09-10 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Urban Planning 8 comments

The problem is El Paso’s not growing. All the costs of those Quality of Life projects would be easier to

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Chicano Batman: Black Lipstick

2020-09-07 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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The Flying Train, Germany, 1902

2020-09-07 elrichiboy Video 4 comments
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Sunday Matinee: Moonrise

2020-09-06 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Joe Pug: I do My Father’s Drugs

2020-09-05 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Jay J. Armes, El Paso’s Real Life Action figure

2020-09-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider 2 comments

Here’s a long read from Narratively.com about El Paso’s favorite nationally known Private Detective, Jay J. Armes: The Investigators were

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