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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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  • (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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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

2020-08-06 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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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

2020-08-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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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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Mexico 1939

2020-07-29 elrichiboy Mexico, Video Leave a comment
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Agents Provocateur

2020-07-28 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Slider 2 comments

Agents provocateur are a standard element of the anarchist playbook. They’ll get in with some peaceful protestors, and then break

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It’s the Water

2020-07-28 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider, Your Health Leave a comment

Alert reader Mr. Natural tipped me to this article from NewAtlas.com: A new systematic review of more than a dozen

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Amazon is Coming

2020-07-26 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider 3 comments

From the El Paso Times: Amazon, the giant online retailer, plans to open one of its distribution centers in El Paso, company

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Sunday Matinee: Dear Murderer

2020-07-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America

2020-07-20 elrichiboy Law Enforcement 10 comments

From the aforementioned document: First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free

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CJNG on Display

2020-07-18 elrichiboy Mexico, Slider 2 comments

This is, purportedly, the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, displaying their firepower in Mexico. Here they are in the town of

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What Are Your Neighbors Up To?

2020-07-17 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, News, Slider 10 comments

Did you see this story in the news? From OPB.org: In the early hours of July 15, after a night

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AMF

2020-07-17 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, population, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Good news, everybody. According to recently released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, between July 2018 and July 2019, the

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The Winds of Change?

2020-07-16 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Elections, Politics, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

The primary elections are over. Incumbent Vince Perez lost his Precinct 3 County Commissioners seat. And James Montoya, veteran District

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Rattlesnake Milk: Dave Dudley

2020-07-14 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Sunday Matinee: Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street

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Why Our Taxes are High and Our Streets are Bad

2020-07-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

You could write it off to the City’s excessive spending. And you’d be right. The City is drunk on spending

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  • Sinister Publications on Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway
  • F.A. Sommerfeld on Renaming the Cesar Chavez Border Highway

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  • “Now We Know Their Names”
  • Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond
  • Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • “The Gary Webb Story: CIA, Cocaine, and a Media Assassination”
  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela

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