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  • UTEP’s Professional College Athletes

    2026-04-27 elrichiboy

    “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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  • Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?

    2026-04-22 Rich Wright

    You probably heard lately that El Paso is the second best big city in the U.S. in which to live. It was on the news.

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  • We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice

    2026-04-21 Kent Paterson

    Downwinder leader Tina Cordova speaks at the Valle de Oro Community Earth Day event. Seated to Cordova’s immediate left is Loretta Anderson and next to

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  • Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”

    2026-04-19 elrichiboy
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  • “How Ciudad Juárez Spiralled Into Cartel Madness”

    2026-04-18 elrichiboy
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  • “Now We Know Their Names”

    2026-04-17 elrichiboy
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  • Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond

    2026-04-16 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson After a lapse of nearly one year-and-a-half, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) conducted a community meeting the evening of April 7

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  • Paul and Julie Ten Years After

    2026-04-13 Rich Wright

    On or about 05 October 2016, I took Paul and Julie to Juarez. Paul and Julie were ballroom dancers. Like The Sound of Music. Okay

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  • “The Gary Webb Story: CIA, Cocaine, and a Media Assassination”

    2026-04-11 elrichiboy
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City of Dust: Cuchillo, New Mexico

2020-11-04 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

By the Wayside: Cuchillo, New Mexico Not far from Truth or Consequences, a (longish) stone’s throw from I-25, is Cuchillo,

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The Offspring: Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)

2020-11-03 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Is Mayor Margo Holding Walking Quorums?

2020-11-03 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Joyce Wilson, Slider One comment

Former city staffer and current District 2 candidate Judy Gutierrez had some revealing things to say in this story in

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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy: Why Me?

2020-11-02 elrichiboy Music, Uncategorized 3 comments
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El Paso, Covid Crossroads

2020-11-02 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Slider 3 comments

True story.* We were driving back from Big Bend, and everyone else in the car was asleep. So I decided

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Steinbeck Says

2020-11-02 elrichiboy John Steinbeck, Quotes One comment

“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ’cause he feels

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Sunday Matinee: Swing!

2020-11-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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What Do You Reckon?

2020-11-01 elrichiboy City Management, Elections, Ethics, Sam Rodriguez, Slider 3 comments

Today the El Paso Times published a guest column from City Engineer Sam Rodriguez. A cursory scan reveals that is

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The City’s Non-Political Political Ad

2020-10-31 elrichiboy City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections, Henry Rivera, Sam Rodriguez, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

City Engineer Sam Rodriguez has an ad in this week’s El Paso Inc. Yup. You read that right. City Engineer

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Hey Beto

2020-10-31 elrichiboy Politics 5 comments

Which one of your brilliant political advisors decided it would be a good idea to hammer voters incessantly into the

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Saturday Documentary: The Man Who Saved the World

2020-10-31 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Pearl Clutching as a Political Strategy

2020-10-31 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Politics, Quarantine, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

The old. The sick. And some other group, harder to define. Maybe you’re part of that other group. Maybe you’re

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The Hot Sardines: Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen

2020-10-30 elrichiboy Music One comment
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Halloween Short: Clearwater

2020-10-30 elrichiboy Friday Short One comment
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Dee Margo is a Weak Mayor

2020-10-29 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections, Henry Rivera, Sam Morgan, Slider One comment

But don’t take my word for it. Here’s City Attorney Karla Nieman’s response to an ethics complaint against the mayor:

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Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band: Raise a Little Hell

2020-10-27 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Leonard Cohen: Happens to the Heart

2020-10-26 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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The Suspense is Over

2020-10-26 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections, Henry Rivera, Politics, Sam Morgan, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

First it was the mystery mailers, and teevee ads, urging voters to support their “leaders”. Then it was that email

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca

2020-10-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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Saturday Documentary: Kickboxing World Champion Challenges Senegalese Wrestlers

2020-10-24 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Uncategorized Leave a comment

This is more a travelogue than a martial arts documentary. Check it out.

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