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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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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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  • The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises

    2025-10-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Amid the landscape of yucca and creosote plants, artificial intelligence-driven Project Stargate took shape this week just a tad up the road from

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  • Diminishing El Paso

    2025-10-06 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue to see little to moderate

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  • “Highway Dragnet”

    2025-10-05 elrichiboy
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  • “The 1916 [Irish] Rising of Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”

    2025-10-04 elrichiboy
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  • Ouch!

    2025-10-03 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times delivered its mandated circulation report on page 5A of Thursday’s dead tree edition, and it’s not pretty. On July 25, 2025,

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  • Juarez’ 2025 Bullfighting Season

    2025-10-01 Rich Wright

    While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at 8pm at the Alberto Balderas

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  • The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown

    2025-09-30 Rich Wright

    Downtown El Paso is already barely accessible. What effect will 5 years of freeway and deck park construction have on it? All those businesses who

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  • “Park Plaza 605”

    2025-09-28 elrichiboy
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Monarch’s Gone Vegan

2018-02-02 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, sponsored, What to Do Leave a comment

Maybe not completely. There’s probably still anchovies in their Worcestershire sauce, but if you ask real nice maybe they’ll strain

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Stuart Blaugrund’s Column in the Times

2018-02-02 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena One comment

Stuart Blaugrund “represented a group of Downtown business and property owners who successfully resisted the taking of their properties for

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Cinépolis (and a Mall) in Downtown Juarez

2018-02-01 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do 8 comments

Have you been to Juarez lately? Don’t lie to me. You have not. If you’ve crossed the border at all,

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Battle for the Claw

2018-02-01 elrichiboy Juarez, Mexico, World News Leave a comment

No, that’s not the new logo of the El Paso High School PTA. That’s the logo of the Gente Nueva

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That New Brothel Downtown

2018-01-31 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Gratuitous Snark 2 comments

God bless those nice people fixing up the Camino Real downtown. Here’s what the El Paso Times reported: The renovation

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Sunday Matinee: In Bruges

2018-01-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

The International Movie Database (IMDb, to the cognoscenti) claims that this movie is a comedy, but that’s a stretch. The

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The Other End of the Tunnel

2018-01-27 elrichiboy Juarez, Perspectives 4 comments

From the El Paso Times: The U.S. Border Patrol and other agencies are investigating a tunnel discovered Thursday after a

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Retrovision: Commercial Property Tax Valuations Down

2018-01-26 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes Leave a comment

[Our shrinking tax base isn’t a new thing. This article originally appeared on August 5, 2014. Since then, our city

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You Break It, You Buy It

2018-01-26 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 4 comments

Naw, we’ll just stick it to the taxpayers. Woody Hunt is a smart man. He’s studied public corruption. Here’s what

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Looking Back

2018-01-26 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes Leave a comment

Look at this chart from Interim Director of Municipal Financial Operations Robert Cortinas’ presentation last Tuesday: It shows the growth

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City of Dust: Lucy, New Mexico

2018-01-25 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

A Tale of Three Lucy’s Let’s get back on Highway 60 and drive just a little bit west of Negra

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The American Collapse

2018-01-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Media, National Policy, Perspectives, World One comment

Here’s a disturbing essay from Medium that details symptoms of America’s collapse. When we take a hard look at US

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Golden Gloves Boxing This Weekend

2018-01-25 elrichiboy sports, What to Do Leave a comment

The annual Golden Gloves Regional Boxing Tournament is this weekend at the County Coliseum. The fights start Friday at 7:00,

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A New Letter From Max Grossman

2018-01-25 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, The Arena Leave a comment

Max is killing it. Here’s an email I got from him last night. Dear Friends, The League of Women Voters

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Support For the Arena?

2018-01-25 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena One comment

Those arena advocates are always quick to point out that the Quality of Life bond measure was supported by over

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Wood and Wire at Star City Studios on Friday

2018-01-24 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Wood and Wire is an extremely talented and very nice bluegrass band from Austin, Texas. From their bio: It’s been

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Retrovision: The Road to Economic Development

2018-01-24 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Education, Quality of Life Projects, School Districts 4 comments

This is a lightly edited version of an article that originally appeared on 6 June 2013. Since then, very little

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Big Changes at City Hall

2018-01-24 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Remember when the rationale for all those pricey public amenities was “to shift the property tax burden from residential to

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This Bud’s For You

2018-01-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 4 comments

It’s just not what it used to be. From CNN: Before 2001, Budweiser was the top-selling U.S. beer, but it

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Tomorrow’s City Council Agenda

2018-01-22 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

Tomorrow should be rip-roaring City Council meeting. City Council will vote tomorrow on an item limiting their own ability to

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