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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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We’re All In This Together

2020-09-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider One comment

From the El Paso Times: Most El Paso city employees will receive a one-time payment this fall from additional sales tax revenue

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Sunday Matinee: Dangerous Crossing

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The Democrats are Giving Away the Election

2020-08-27 elrichiboy Politics, Slider 5 comments

I watched about five minutes of the Democrat convention. Five minutes is all I could take. The problem was it

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Summer’s Halfway Over

2020-08-27 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Just Kidding., Slider Leave a comment

Good news, everyone. This year’s long, hot, dry, spell, what we call “summer”, should end sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas,

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Sunday Matinee: Lawman

2020-08-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Uncategorized One comment
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The Mutant Virus

2020-08-19 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Science, Slider 2 comments

The skeptics point to Covid-19 fatality rates that are lower than projected and cry “Fraud”. But recent research indicates a

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Rest in Peace, Preston Foster

2020-08-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Preston Foster died last week in a one-car accident in Colorado. El Chuqueño extends our sincerest condolences to his family

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The Death of Democracy in El Paso

2020-08-17 elrichiboy ballpark, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Joyce Wilson, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Did you have a voice in the political process when City Council announced on a Thursday that they were going

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Sunday Matinee: The Chase

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Wood & Wire: My Hometown

2020-08-14 elrichiboy Music, Video 3 comments
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Our Fearless Leader

2020-08-12 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

A week after our city’s elected officials voted to give City Manager Tommy Gonzalez and City Attorney Karla Nieman merit

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Bluegrass Michael Jackson Bad

2020-08-10 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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A Long Walk on a Short Pier

2020-08-10 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Media, Slider 2 comments

More good news. From this week’s El Paso Inc.: As they exhaust pandemic aid and see no end to the

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Sunday Matinee: Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner in Morituri

2020-08-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Our Charitable Overlords

2020-08-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a perspective on charitable giving by the rich during the pandemic, from that socialist rag, the Guardian. Private philanthropy

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Portland Protest Video

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We Could Have Had City-Wide High-Speed Internet Instead

2020-08-05 elrichiboy ballpark, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 3 comments

You know I’ve been saying that the real cost of all those vanity projects for the leisure class is what

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Getting What You Pay for?

2020-08-03 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

Here’s an article in Forbes titled Why Texas Is In Trouble—78,064 Public Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks Cost Taxpayers $12 Billion:

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Sunday Matinee: Scandal Sheet

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El Paso’s Climate Refugees

2020-07-31 elrichiboy Climate Change, Economic Development, Migration, Slider 8 comments

Here’s a long read from ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine: Conjoined to the Mexican city of Juárez, the

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