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  • El Paso is a Small Town

    2025-06-02 elrichiboy

    Today’s front page headline of the dead tree edition of our English almost-daily newspaper is “Five new restaurants to try in El Paso”. The story

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  • Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes”

    2025-06-01 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso 23rd Biggest City in the U.S.?

    2025-05-30 Rich Wright

    From ElPasoMatters.org: The population in El Paso’s city limits grew by 150 people between 2023 and 2024, continuing a decade-long plateauing of people, according to

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  • CRRUA Update: State of New Mexico Sues

    2025-05-29 Rich Wright

    From SourceNM.com: New Mexico’s environment department on Wednesday announced it has filed a lawsuit against the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority and has asked the

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  • The Sunland Park-Santa Teresa Chronicles: Cannabis, CRRUA and Capitalism

    2025-05-29 Kent Paterson

    The evening of May 21, 2025 will surely count as one of the liveliest meetings of the Sunland Park City Council. Carrying a 50-person capacity,

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  • The New Hypernormalization

    2025-05-28 Rich Wright

    From TheGuardian.com: First articulated in 2005 by scholar Alexei Yurchak to describe the civilian experience in Soviet Russia, hypernormalization describes life in a society where

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  • No Mas La Puntita

    2025-05-26 Rich Wright

    From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council voted eight to zero to pass a resolution authorizing the submission of an application to the Office of Congresswoman

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  • Gallium in Round Top Mountain

    2025-05-25 Rich Wright

    From EcoPortal.net, a story titled 36,000,000 kg under this American region ? It’s better than lithium and the end of China: A recent discovery may

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  • CRRUA in the Whirlwind: The Future of People and Water in Sunland Park-Santa Teresa at the Crossroads

    2025-05-17 Kent Paterson

    by Kent Paterson Like the wind, dust and mist that sting the spring of 2025, stormy developments surround the fundamental question of water and wastewater

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  • The Apartment

    2025-05-14 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright His hands are filthy. He looks at them where they protrude from the frayed cuffs of his dark flannel shirt as though

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  • Blow, Wind, Blow

    2025-05-13 Rich Wright

    From a May 4 post on Gizmodo.com: This year’s drought-exacerbated dusty season is “truly exceptional—one for the record books,” said Thomas Gill, an environmental scientist

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  • “Yes, Your Arrogancy”

    2025-05-12 elrichiboy

    From ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso City Council this week will take another look at public engagement at meetings after a vote limiting audience speakers to

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In Defense of the Rio Bosque Wetlands

2024-04-25 Vanessa Johnson Cesar Blanco, Slider, The Environment, TxDOT 5 comments

by Vanessa Johnson The Chihuahua Desert is an ecological treasure; it is the largest and most biodiverse desert in the

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Humphrey Bogar in “Midnight”

2024-04-21 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Your Brain: Who’s in Control?”

2024-04-20 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Juárez Multimedia Art Show Connects Rivers, Borders and Healing

2024-04-19 Kent Paterson Art, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson If you get a chance, you might saunter over to Ciudad Juárez to see the Somatica Terreste

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Impact Fees, Developers, and Politics

2024-04-18 Rich Wright City Council, El Paso Electric Company, El Paso Water, Politics, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 11 comments

From KVIA.com: El Paso Water and the City of El Paso are discussing potential changes to impact fees, which homebuilders

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El Paso’s Rio Bosque Wetlands Park threatened by unchecked forces of development.

2024-04-17 Jon Rezendes Slider, The Environment, TxDOT Leave a comment

This post was originally published on April 10, 2024 by ricklobello on the ILoveParks WordPress blog. In just a few

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City of Dust: Mystery Photos

2024-04-16 John Mulhouse City of Dust, Slider Leave a comment

by John Mulhouse I was sent two vintage photos from unidentified locations by someone that wants to know where their

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Iris Dement – “Let the Mystery Be”

2024-04-15 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Sunland Park Déjà Vu: Water, Management Crisis and Community Protest

2024-04-15 Kent Paterson CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, Water 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Momentous days riveted April in the southern New Mexico border communities of Sunland Park and neighboring Santa

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City of Dust: Cabezón, New Mexico

2024-04-11 John Mulhouse City of Dust, Slider 3 comments

by John Mulhouse Beneath the Giant’s Head If you’re tooling around the Rio Puerco Valley northwest of Albuquerque, one feature

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The Arena Saga

2024-04-10 Rich Wright Arrogance, Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Economic Development, Renard Johnson, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

I am tired of writing about the ongoing swindle that local governments keep trying to pull on us. I’m talking

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Migrant Deaths Skyrocket in the El Paso Sector

2024-04-09 elrichiboy Migration, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a horrifying story from TheBorderChronicle.com that brings to light skyrocketing migrant deaths in and around El Paso. As safe

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“Abe Partidge’s 403d Freakout”

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Ann Baxter and Sterling Hayden in “The Come On”

2024-04-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Sentinel Tower Update

2024-04-06 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider, Surveillance, Uncategorized 5 comments

They’re bringing it. Pretty soon you’ll be able to see it from El Paso. It’s the Torre Centinela. You remember:

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In Other News

2024-03-31 Rich Wright News, Slider 3 comments

According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, El Paso County’s population grew from

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Yul Brynner in “Port of New York”

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Gregory Peck in “I Walk the Line”

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“Ma Barker and Her Crime Family”

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“I Love Trouble”

2024-03-17 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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