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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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  • (Some of) The Straight Skinny on Torre Centinela

    2026-04-09 Rich Wright

    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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Pokey LaFarge: Something in the Water

2020-06-05 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Living With Covid

2020-06-05 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider 5 comments

Things are different now. If you get the Covid, you’re going to kill someone you love. Your grandmother. Your father.

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Leonard Cohen: Closing Time

2020-06-04 elrichiboy Music, Video 2 comments
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Economic Development?

2020-06-04 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, El Paso Electric Company, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Y’all remember when they pitched those 2102 Quality of Life bonds, they said it was “an economic development issue”. Here’s

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Andrew Frankel: Super-Human

2020-06-01 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Et Tu, Brute?

2020-06-01 elrichiboy Media, Meta Blog 4 comments

Well, it looks like Brutus over there at ElPasoSpeak.com has gone dark. His last post was May 17. Brutus did

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Flattening the Curve

2020-06-01 elrichiboy City Management, Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider, Your Health 4 comments

Expectations drive the economy. Economists measure consumer confidence. The futures markets are self-fulfilling prophecies, to a degree. Politicians know that.

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Retrovision: Six Years On

2020-05-29 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

This article originally appeared on 08 March 2019. On March 8, 2013, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot the

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Retrovision: The Dark Ages in El Paso

2020-05-28 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Law Enforcement, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 03 Nov 2019. Are you interested in a great job in El Paso? Get on

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“Card Tricks: How El Paso’s 2012 ‘Quality of Life’ Bond Election Got Riddled With Flimflam”

2020-05-28 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Joyce Wilson, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The "Progressives", The Arena One comment

Here’s a piece on Medium.com written by veteran reporter Debbie Nathan, chronicling the run-up to the election. . . .

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The Robots Have Come for Your Job

2020-05-27 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, Technology One comment

I came home the other day and some guy was messing with my gas meter. Turns out that Texas Gas

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El Paso Post-Pandemic

2020-05-26 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, TIRZs, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

The future will look different. But let’s hope we’ve learned from the mistakes of the past. For the past couple

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Beisbol Been Very Very Good to Me

2020-05-21 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 10 comments

Minor league baseball is up against the wall, and it’s not because they’re trying to field a long ball to

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Webb Pierce: There Stands the Glass

2020-05-14 elrichiboy Music, Video 2 comments
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These Robots are Coming for Our Jobs

2020-05-14 elrichiboy Technology, Video Leave a comment
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Retrovision: They Think You’re Stupid. They Might Be Right.

2020-05-13 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, It's All Good, Slider 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 28 April 2015. Did you know, that no matter how much money MountainStar Sports Group

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City of Dust: The St. James Hotel, Cimarron, New Mexico

2020-05-12 John Mulhouse City of Dust 4 comments

We Will Shoot the Lights Out for You In the fall of 2005, I was driving from Oklahoma to Taos

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Wuhan Roulette

2020-05-12 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Slider 7 comments

I used to live in the greatest country in the world. If there was a problem, we’d solve it. We’d

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Sunday Matinee: Tell Them Willie Boy is Here

2020-05-10 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube

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Retrovision: Who Represents El Paso?

2020-05-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Retrovision, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

This article originally appeared on 03 August 2015. If you only read the local newspapers, and maybe watch the City

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  • Is El Paso the Second Best City to Live In?
  • We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice
  • Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in “I Walk Alone”
  • “How Ciudad Juárez Spiralled Into Cartel Madness”
  • “Now We Know Their Names”

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