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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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  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

    2025-10-20 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright This article, or something very much like it, originally appeared on NewspaperTree.com in early May, 2008. There’s this brain drain argument that’s

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  • “The Other Woman”

    2025-10-19 elrichiboy
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  • “The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

    2025-10-18 elrichiboy

    Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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  • Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-10-17 Rich Wright

    Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing organizations. In response to the

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  • Ninja Convention

    2025-10-16 Rich Wright

    The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade on Montana last night. Kudos

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Sunday Matinee: Fist of Legend

2018-06-10 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s Jet Li in a 1994 action flick. What else is there to say? Watch this video on YouTube Check

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Is El Paso Dying?

2018-06-07 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

I went by the liquor mega-store this week and there were four cars in the parking lot. Inside there were

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The El Paso Housing Bubble

2018-06-06 elrichiboy Economic Development 5 comments

The Central Appraisal District tells us that house values are up 7.6 percent this year. While the U.S. Census Bureau

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Retrovision: A Failure in Branding

2018-06-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena One comment

This article originally appeared on 24 August 2017. Here’s a letter to the editor from the El Paso Times: Here

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Educating the Electorate

2018-06-05 elrichiboy Education, Elections, Media 2 comments

The media aren’t going to do it. Have any of them reported on El Paso’s abysmal population growth rate? Have

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The Home of Predatory Capitalism

2018-06-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Ethics, Perspectives, Public Private Partnerships, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Here’s another killer essay about the decline of American civilization. A friend, recently, told me a very interesting and telling

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If You Build It, Will They Come?

2018-06-04 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

This, from KTSM: City Council approved a controversial proposal Tuesday to create a special taxing zone to spur development along

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Sunday Matinee: Hard Boiled

2018-06-03 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s director John Woo’s 1992 cops and gangsters classic, starring Chow Yun-fat. Lots of that bang bang shoot-’em-up choreography that

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City of Dust: Acme and Frazier, New Mexico

2018-06-01 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

A Tale of Two Towns Those of you who are fans of the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote might be

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Another More Egregious Open Meeting Violation

2018-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

From the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas’ Open Meetings Handbook 2018: 2. Section 551.072. Deliberations

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More Businesses But Not More Business

2018-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, TIRZs Leave a comment

Here’s a graphic I lifted from the City’s website, detailing what kind of businesses the City is expecting to move

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The First Rule of Operational Security

2018-05-30 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, TIRZs Leave a comment

. . . is that you don’t talk about Operational Security. I bet that they’ve revoked Major Morgan’s security clearance

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The Link Policy is Back

2018-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Media One comment

That pesky “Link Policy” is back on the City’s website. Aesthetically, it clutters up the website’s menu. Practically, I’m not

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“OpSec”

2018-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

That’s the phrase District 4 Representative Sam Morgan used to justify his vote for TIRZ 12 at yesterday’s City Council

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El Paso Grows By Four Tenths of One Percent

2018-05-30 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects Leave a comment

According to estimates just released by the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of the City of El Paso grew by

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The Bubble

2018-05-29 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 7 comments

We all live in our own bubbles. We hang out with people who think like us and dress like us

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Retrovision: More On Dwntwn

2018-05-28 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider 4 comments

This article originally appeared on November 11, 2013. By now you may have read this story by David Crowder about

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Sunday Matinee: Den of Thieves

2018-05-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 2018 heist movie starring Fiddy Cent and a bunch of other cats you’re supposed to know. Watch this

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Ultimate College Nationals Live Stream

2018-05-26 elrichiboy sports Leave a comment

Maybe you were going to do some yard work this weekend. Maybe you were going to re-primer your jeep. You

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Champions League Final Saturday! Updated!

2018-05-26 elrichiboy sports Leave a comment

Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid take on Mohamed Salah and Liverpool Saturday at 12:45 in the finals of the Champions

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