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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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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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Joyce Wilson Speaks (Again)

2024-08-22 Rich Wright Elections, Joyce Wilson, Politics, Slider One comment

Former City Manager Joyce Wilson is the gift that won’t stop giving. She wrote another letter to the El Paso

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Retrovision: “I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe”

2024-08-22 Rich Wright ballpark, Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT One comment

This post originally appeared on 2021-11-23. I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the

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The Deck Park

2024-08-20 Rich Wright Deck Park, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider One comment

Anyone who has been outside in the last four months should question the motives and judgment of the deck park

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U.S. Census Bureau: El Paso

2024-08-19 Rich Wright Economic Development, population, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a new page from the U.S. Census Bureau with the latest local info for data nerds. Highlights include Percentage

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“Raw Deal”

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“Investigating the Meth Superhighway”

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Low Rent Mayhem in Cruces

2024-08-11 elrichiboy Crime, Las Cruces, New Mexico, News One comment

Look at this crazy story from Las Cruces, via CBS4Local.com: A Santa Fe, N.M., murder suspect was arrested Saturday evening

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James Mason in “Odd Man Out”

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“Black Money: Inside the Shadowy World of International Bribery”

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Elvis Costello, John Prine, Ray La Montagne, and Lyle Lovett – “Loretta”

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Retrovision: “El Paso’s Highway Boondoggle”

2024-08-06 Rich Wright Deck Park, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 One comment

This post originally appeared on 2023-11-19. An alert reader hipped me to the Public Interest Research Group’s Fall 2023 publication

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Tony Curtis and Gilbert Roland in “The Midnight Story”

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“The Deadliest City in Mexico | Tijuana: 7 Murders a Day”

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Induced Demand

2024-07-31 Rich Wright Slider, TxDOT 2 comments

From Vox.com: From Massachusetts to California, transportation departments are pursuing controversial plans to widen highways, expansions that are sure to

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Veronica Escobar’s Bacon

2024-07-30 Rich Wright Politics, Slider, Veronica Escobar 2 comments

Say what you like about El Paso’s U.S. Representative Veronica Escobar, but she’s bringing home the pork. From the El

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“Shield for Murder”

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The Problem with the City Manager Candidates

2024-07-22 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin, Joyce Wilson, Slider 3 comments

The horses are in the gates for the selection of the next City Manager. From ElPasoMatters.com: Four high-ranking city officials

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“Force of Evil”

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“Knuckle”

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Otto Preminger’s “Whirlpool”

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