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  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela

    2026-04-09 elrichiboy

    If you are interested in the Torre Centinela that is almost fully operational in downtown Ciudad Juárez, then you should read this story from RestOfWorld.org.

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  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”

    2026-04-05 elrichiboy
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  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”

    2026-04-03 Rich Wright

    (Scene: Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon.) Secretary Pete Hegseth: . . . and that, gentlemen, is how we will end this war.

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  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles

    2026-03-31 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Data centers are a burning issue in the Paso del Norte borderland of 2026. Plans to open a giant data center complex

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  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

    2026-03-22 Oscar J. Martinez

    by Oscar J. Martinez Given the recent disturbing revelations about Cesar Chávez, it seems certain that the local Border Highway’s name will be changed.  Many

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  • “Hangover Square”

    2026-03-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Rise and Ruin of the Coca-Cola Family”

    2026-03-21 elrichiboy
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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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Ministry — Jesus Built My Hotrod

2020-12-10 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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La Feria on Avenida Juarez

2020-12-10 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez, Slider 7 comments

Downtown Juarez was my third place. The third place is the place that’s neither home nor work. The place you

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The O’Reillys and the Paddyhats – Irish Way

2020-12-09 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Otava Yo – (This Website Doesn’t Support Cryllic Cyrillic)

2020-12-09 elrichiboy Music 4 comments
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Are They Still Going to Fix Tickets?

2020-12-09 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Corruption, Law Enforcement, Slider 2 comments

I guess you heard that we’ve got a new District Attorney. She takes office in January. She’s already made plans

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Why Aren’t Masks Free?

2020-12-09 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Politics, Slider 4 comments

If the single most effective thing we can do to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus is for everybody to

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The King of Mesa Street: The Life and Death of a Border Bluesman, Part 3

2020-12-08 Kent Paterson Local Heroes, Music, Slider 4 comments

This is the last part of a three part series. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here.

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Joe T. Hodo — Por un México más Fifi

2020-12-08 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo One comment
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Cooking the Books?

2020-12-08 elrichiboy City Management, Coronavirus, Elections, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s another story from the people’s English language daily: El Paso County has officially surpassed the grim milestone of 1,000 COVID-19-related

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El Paso’s Fourth Tit

2020-12-07 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Elections, Ethics, Media, Slider 9 comments

I reckon the local oligarchs really got their hooks into the El Paso Times. Yesterday the El Paso Times had

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Secrets of Horse Trading

2020-12-06 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Elections, Politics, Quarantine, Slider 2 comments

I’ve always said that if you’re going to sell a blind horse, the first thing you tell the mark is

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Sunday Matinee — Portrait in Black

2020-12-06 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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RetroVision: Beisbol been very very good to me

2020-12-05 elrichiboy ballpark, Retrovision, Slider 2 comments

This post originally appeared way back on 21 May 2020. Minor league baseball is up against the wall, and it’s

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Junior Brown — Highway Patrol

2020-12-05 elrichiboy Hot Hits, Music One comment
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Free Antibody Testing

2020-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Was that just a cold you had a couple of months ago, or were you one of the lucky ones

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Saturday Documentary: Four Horsemen

2020-12-05 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Video Leave a comment
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Kuparilinna — Tuulee

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Friday Short: Talk to Me

2020-12-04 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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How Do You Get Covid at Walmart?

2020-12-04 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Hot Hits, Media, Quarantine, Slider One comment

Is it available in Menswear, between the Rustler jeans and the Hanes underwear? Are unmasked infecteds coughing on the tomatoes?

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Joe T. Hodo: Minas…¡Sí! Ruinas…¡No!

2020-12-04 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo, Video Leave a comment
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  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela
  • Humphrey Bogart in “Knock on Any Door”
  • NYT: “Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders”
  • People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
  • Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

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