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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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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

2020-08-16 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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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

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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  • David Dunaway on We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice
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  • F.A. Sommerfeld on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
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  • John G. Dungan on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
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  • “Surprise Witness”
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  • The 1915 Collision of the Iron Cure and the Harrison Narcotic Act in El Paso
  • Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?

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