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  • “Blackout”

    2026-05-24 elrichiboy
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  • “Sevres & Sykes–Picot: How the Middle East Was Divided”

    2026-05-23 elrichiboy
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  • Memories, Reflections and Connections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part Two

    2026-05-20 Kent Paterson

    Feature photo: Mercedes Doretti of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team addresses the Las Cruces gathering. (Photo by Cynthia Bejarano) Convened on the 20th anniversary of

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  • “Jealous Badge”

    2026-05-17 elrichiboy
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  • “The New ‘Oumuamua? Everything We Know So Far About 3I/Atlas”

    2026-05-16 elrichiboy
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  • Memories and Reflections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part One

    2026-05-13 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Paula Flores recently retold parts of a painfully long and unresolved story to an audience at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in

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  • “Cry Vegeance”

    2026-05-10 elrichiboy
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  • “The Officer Who Threw the Punch Isn’t the Problem. The Man Who Approved It Is.”

    2026-05-08 elrichiboy
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  • Our Surveillance State

    2026-05-05 Rich Wright

    From APNews.com: Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor

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  • Alec Guiness in “The Detective”

    2026-05-03 elrichiboy
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  • “Stone Age Temple Mystery”

    2026-05-02 elrichiboy
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  • UTEP’s Professional College Athletes

    2026-04-27 Rich Wright

    “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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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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Orwellian Doublespeak

2019-12-17 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Mexico, Slider One comment

God bless those hardworking men and women protecting our nation’s borders. But this new biometric picture-taking program they have at

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Topeka’s Looking Pretty Good

2019-12-16 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Some cities are paying people to move to them. From the New York Times: Add Topeka, Kan., to the growing

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Sunday Matinee: Otto Preminger’s “Fallen Angel”

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How To Live in El Paso: London Rocket

2019-12-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 11 January 2016. It has been lightly edited. If you live in El Paso, you

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“An Intersection of Possibilities”

2019-12-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Juarez, New Mexico, population, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

From the people who brought you the Glass Beach Study. Here’s a nice video promoting El Paso, Las Cruces and

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Portugal. The Man: “Feel It Still”

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Know Your Chile!

2019-12-11 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider 2 comments

I made some salsa brava the other day. Chile pequin, onion, garlic, and tomatoes, burned in a skillet and run

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Retrovision: A Local Expert’s Perspective on Economic Development

2019-12-10 elrichiboy Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 10 October 2015. Here’s what Jerry Pacheco, the Executive Director of the International Business Accelerator,

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El Paso Electric vs. The People

2019-12-08 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, El Paso Electric Company, Slider Leave a comment

It seems like all those people who are in favor of the Electric Company sale to J.P. Morgan stand to

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El Chuqueño Lately

  • “Blackout”
  • “Sevres & Sykes–Picot: How the Middle East Was Divided”
  • Memories, Reflections and Connections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part Two
  • “Jealous Badge”
  • “The New ‘Oumuamua? Everything We Know So Far About 3I/Atlas”

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