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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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Sunday Matinee: Street Kings

2018-01-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a Keanu Reeves movie about dirty cops. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.

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Does This Sound Like El Paso?

2018-01-13 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes, The Arena One comment

From a 2009 El Paso Inc. interview with Woody Hunt: Q. How does corruption impact economic development? If the procurement

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Retrovision: An Arena? Really?

2018-01-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 5 comments

This article originally appeared on January 10, 2017. Over the last twenty years, we’ve spent a lot of money on

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City of Dust: Hillsboro, New Mexico

2018-01-12 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

This Is Not a Ghost Town Hillsboro, New Mexico, at the foot of the Black Range, almost 20 miles west

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Today’s English Lesson

2018-01-12 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment

Watch this video on YouTube It sounds like English, but they definitely dance in Italian.

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All The News That Fits Our Agenda

2018-01-11 elrichiboy Media, Politics, Slider 2 comments

Back in 2009, El Paso Inc. ran an interview titled Q and A with Woody Hunt The Real Cost of

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Retrovision: Regional Economic Development

2018-01-10 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 13 August 2015. The Borderplex Alliance, an entity dedicated to regional economic development, commissioned a

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“You Can’t Go Home Again”

2018-01-10 elrichiboy Art, Perspectives Leave a comment

From Thomas Wolfe’s novel about the time preceding the stock market crash of 1929: “But he spoke at length about

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Conveniently Located Halfway Between Warsaw, Poland, and the Fiji Islands

2018-01-09 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development 4 comments

I wasn’t able to attend yesterday’s special City Council meeting. So I didn’t get to witness the Hunt Institute for

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Isn’t That Special

2018-01-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes Leave a comment

Today there’s a special meeting of City Council. I was hoping to attend, but life had other plans for me.

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Sunday Matinee: The Butcher

2018-01-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Have you had your dose of over-the-top violence today? Here’s an Eric Roberts movie about a ex-boxer who has fallen

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Ballpark Numbers Updated

2018-01-05 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 4 comments

An alert reader sent me this spreadsheet which shows the actual numbers for the ballpark. Four years in and we’re

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Ballpark Numbers

2018-01-05 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

Are you troubled by insomnia? Then I’ve got some ballpark numbers that should put you right to sleep. Because there

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City of Dust: Kingston, New Mexico

2018-01-05 John Mulhouse City of Dust 5 comments

The Way Things Weren’t Kingston, New Mexico isn’t a ghost town. But it’s also not the place of which it

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Will Tourism Save Us?

2018-01-04 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects One comment

Besides call centers, the City of El Paso’s economic development policy seems to be solely focused on tourism as a

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Sunday Matinee: Hammerhead (1968)

2017-12-31 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Remember 1968? Yeah, me neither. But I hear it was groovy. And here’s proof. Watch this video on YouTube Here’s

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Sunday Matinee: Game of Aces

2017-12-31 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a World War I movie about pilots and traitors. Watch this video on YouTube Check it out.

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A Second Bite at the Apple

2017-12-28 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes One comment

The city budget is fat. Obviously they have extra money. Lookie here. From the El Paso Times: The city will

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The Last Days of Jason Rabedeaux from ESPN

2017-12-28 elrichiboy Media, Slider, sports, World News 4 comments

Here’s a story about former UTEP basketball coach Jason Rabedeaux’s career and final days coaching the Saigon Heat. JASON RABEDEAUX

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Sunday Matinee: The Numbers Station

2017-12-24 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

John Cusack leads this one, as a CIA assassin assigned to watch over a secret broadcasting station and the girl

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