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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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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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Sunday Matinee: Stiletto

2018-01-21 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Over the top characters drive this hyper-violent crime story based on a graphic novel. Watch this video on YouTube Check

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Saturday Matinee: Guardians of the Night

2018-01-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

It’s Men in Black. With vampires. In Moscow. http://www.kvia.com/news/el-paso/district-attorney-will-not-file-charges-for-alleged-violation-of-open-meetings-act/687658317 Check it out, if you’ve got an hour and a half

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Friday Short: The Space Between Us

2018-01-19 elrichiboy Shorts, Video One comment

Here’s a Dutch short that is supposed to closely resemble the movie The Shape of Water. Watch this video on

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The 2017 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report

2018-01-16 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

Where is it? Here’s the Financial Reports page for City of El Paso’s Office of the Comptroller. The latest Comprehensive

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