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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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Bookie Baker: Autumn Wind

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Sunday Matinee: Shield for Murder

2020-01-12 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Friday Short: Painkiller

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Wee Wee Wee

2020-01-09 elrichiboy Corrections, Slider 2 comments

Nothings going to change if we don’t have the courage of our convictions. Nothing’s going to change if all we

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PBS Frontline: Targeting El Paso

2020-01-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Retrovision: Economic Impact

2020-01-08 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 17 January 2017. What do you think has more effect on the El Paso economy.

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OutKast: Bombs Over Baghdad

2020-01-08 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Co-Sign

2020-01-07 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Can we get the members and board members of the Borderplex Alliance to co-sign on some of the bonds the

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Frank and Maury: Sticky

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Freddy Scott and the Four Steps: Same Old Beat

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Retrovision: Let’s Pretend

2020-01-01 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 20 February 2017. Let’s pretend all our local “progressive” politicians and their benefactors are pure

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Retail: Bright Ideas

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Seis Banderas

2019-12-30 elrichiboy Juarez, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Water Parks Leave a comment

According to El Diario de Juarez, MountainStar Sports Group is trying to put a big theme park in Cd. Juarez’

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Full Transparency From Our Friends at EPEC

2019-12-28 elrichiboy El Paso Electric Company, Slider One comment

I have this thing at my house that’s like a teevee hooked up to a typewriter. In fact, I’m typing

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Friday Short: The Reckoning

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Electric El Paso

2019-12-26 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, El Paso Electric Company, Slider One comment

I’ve heard rumors that J.P. Morgan is having a little hard time coming up with the $4.3 billion they need

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Who Rules El Paso?

2019-12-20 elrichiboy Corruption, How to Live in El Paso, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

I’ll give you a hint. Follow the money. There’s a new book out titled Who Rules El Paso? Give the

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“Good Cause”

2019-12-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 13 comments

On December 5, I requested the employment contracts for City Manager Tommy Gonzalez from the City of El Paso via

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Poor Man’s Poison: Hell’s Coming With Me

2019-12-17 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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Rag’n’Bone Man: Human

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The People Speak!

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  • David Dunaway on We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice
  • Richard Moore on We’re Still Bombing New Mexico: Nuclear Cycle Victims on the Long Road to Justice
  • LOUIS HEAD on Water Wrangling, Data Center Dealmaking and Deep Distrust in Sunland Park and Beyond
  • F.A. Sommerfeld on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • JerryK on El Paso is Falling
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  • John G. Dungan on Paul and Julie Ten Years After
  • Richard Moore on People Rising: Snapshots from El Paso’s Data Center Battles
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  • UTEP’s Professional College Athletes
  • “Surprise Witness”
  • “Four Dead in Five Seconds”
  • 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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