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  • Red Elvises at Sunset Parlor this Tuesday

    2025-11-15 elrichiboy

    Your favorite band brings it back to El Paso this Tuesday, at the Sunset Parlor.

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  • “Powering AI: The Environmental Impacts of Borderland Data Centers”

    2025-11-17 elrichiboy

    “[NMELC] Staff Attorney, Kacey Hovden, along with our clients, has been invited as a guest speaker at a University of Texas El Paso panel, Powering AI: The Environmental

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  • “Harper”

    2025-11-16 elrichiboy
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  • Thank the Taxpayers

    2025-11-10 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story at ElPasoTimes.com titled State of the County address touts growth through bonds in address. “On time and on budget” was the rallying

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  • Can’t We Just Wait?

    2025-11-09 Rich Wright

    Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people who are okay with the

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  • “The Sniper”

    2025-11-09 elrichiboy
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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

    2025-11-01 elrichiboy

    With music by David Romo.

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  • Bullfight Tonight!

    2025-10-31 Rich Wright

    The 2025 bullfighting season carries on tonight with another spectacle at the Aberto Balderas Bullring in downtown Juarez. Tonight’s headliner is El Zapata. From LaPrensa.org,

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  • Gregory Peck in “The Case of the Enchanted Prisoner”

    2025-10-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

    2025-10-25 elrichiboy
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  • “EL PASO, WHERE SUNSHINE SPENDS THE WINTER”

    2025-10-23 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey One hundred years ago, before El Paso simply advertised and referred to itself as the “Sun City,” the municipality boasted the slogan,

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Adios, Amigo

2019-04-19 elrichiboy Economic Development, Liar Liar, Quality of Life Projects 6 comments

Remember all those reasons the bond advocates used to peddle those Quality of Life bonds? “Residential property owners are shouldering

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The Organization Before the Community

2019-04-17 elrichiboy City Management, Dionne Mack, Library, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

The City Manager protects his team. Even when they’re wrong. So if one of his Deputy City Managers decides to

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Sunday Matinee: Criminal

2019-04-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a star-studded action flick from 2016. The movie features Gal Gadot, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kostner, Gary Oldman, and

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The Hu Band: Wolf Totem

2019-04-06 elrichiboy Music, Video 2 comments

This is what comes up if you type “Mongolian Metal” into the search box. Watch this video on YouTube Turn

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The Old Mexico Border

2019-04-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a cool photo essay from the New York Times about the territory that bordered the U.S. before the Mexican-American

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Joe Bonamassa and Tina Guo

2019-04-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It’s easier than it looks. Watch this video on YouTube

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DÍA DE SAN RICARDO

2019-04-03 elrichiboy Art, Opportunity! 2 comments

Today, April 3, is the Día de San Ricardo, the patron saint of truck drivers, according to ElTestigoFiel. Tradition dictates

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You’re Out!

2019-04-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Media, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

Here’s an article from Reason that describes the plights of three cities who paid for ballparks. “Any normal business person

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Never Gonna Give You Up

2019-04-01 elrichiboy Art 2 comments

Watch this video on YouTube

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Teddy Roosevelt in Juarez

2019-03-29 elrichiboy History, Juarez, Slider One comment

Lookie what I found. Isn’t that our future 26th president enjoying a cigar as he plays roulette at the Monte

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The Effects of Corruption

2019-03-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Back in 2009, Woody Hunt talked about the effects of corruption in this interview with the El Paso Inc. Scholarly

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Corruption: The Short Version

2019-03-28 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

The City of El Paso is trading 2,313 acres adjacent to the golf course in Northeast El Paso to Paul

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Drunk Without Hangovers

2019-03-27 elrichiboy News 4 comments

It’s right around the corner, according to this article from the Independent. Alcohol that makes you feel drunk without the

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Business Community: Not In My Backyard

2019-03-26 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, Gratuitous Snark, MountainStar Sports Group 2 comments

Oh, the irony. From Aaron Montes at the El Paso Times: A large warehouse built 19 years ago in West

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Smells Like Corruption

2019-03-26 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

If the people who run the El Paso City Government are not totally corrupt, they’re grossly incompetent. Take that Great

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Who Dropped the Soap?

2019-03-22 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Here’s another informative piece from Vic Kolenc of the El Paso Times, headlined El Paso Water board breaks land-sale drought

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Widening the I-10 Trench

2019-03-20 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Did you see this op-ed in the El Paso Times by Sito Negron? You may have heard about the I-10

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The Chamber of Commerce is a Good Dog

2019-03-19 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Our friends at the El Paso Chamber of Commerce, the ones who heartily endorsed every project that has inflated your

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“Introduction to Quality”

2019-03-19 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

The El Paso Chamber of Commerce announced that on April 28, El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez will present a

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Why The Streetcars Don’t Work

2019-03-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Trolley 4 comments

If you take Sun Metro from the Glory Road Transfer Center to the Downtown Transfer Center, the bus leaves every

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