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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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  • Social Engineering Chuco-Style

    2025-09-26 Rich Wright

    I live in a neighborhood I call Barrio Heights. Barrio Heights is below Rim Road, close to El Paso High. The houses in Barrio Heights

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  • Community First Coalition Forum on Affordable Housing

    2025-09-25 elrichiboy

    The Community First Coalition is hosting a forum on the housing challenges facing the local community. Everybody needs housing, and in the current climate, we

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  • Book Launch: “Juarez | Tales from a Misunderstood City”

    2025-09-24 elrichiboy
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Sunday Matinee: The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World

2017-06-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

In the sixties, various studios came out with James Bond knockoffs. There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of spy and secret

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Robert Randolph at Tricky Falls Tomorrow Night

2017-06-03 elrichiboy Art, Music, What to Do Leave a comment

Pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph brings his funk and soul and burn-the-house-down rock and roll to Tricky Falls tomorrow night.

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UEFA Champions League Final

2017-06-02 elrichiboy Juarez, sports, What to Do Leave a comment

Saturday, June 3, at 12:45 pm, Real Madrid plays Juventus in the final game of the UEFA Champions League. Mostly,

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Radioactivity at Monarch Tomorrow Night

2017-06-02 Fletcher Wright shows, What to Do Leave a comment

This Saturday, we’ll give a warm welcome to a couple touring acts out of Denton. The first being Bad Sports,

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The Latest Numbers

2017-06-01 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development 2 comments

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates for cities are out. According to their Quick Facts, the population of the City of

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City of Dust: Encino, New Mexico

2017-05-31 John Mulhouse City of Dust 55 comments

After the Depot I spend a lot of time on US Highway 60. Not only do I travel the road

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Tornado in Chihuahua

2017-05-31 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment

Rubio is the alias for Colonia Obregon, north of Cuahtemoc, where lately they’ve been having running gun battles in the

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Courthouse Update From Max Grossman

2017-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Dear Friends, I am writing to you to in order to clear up misconceptions about today’s hearing in the 201

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Which End of the Stick Do the Taxpayers Get?

2017-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 12 comments

Our friends on City Council today gave away another million dollars. From KVIA: Construction on a new $16 million development

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Drink Tequila, Lose Weight

2017-05-30 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

According to a report presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society: A sweetener created from the plant used

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But Wait . . .

2017-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 5 comments

According to KVIA, the judge in the case the City filed for a declaratory judgment has postponed the case till

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And the Verdict Is . . .

2017-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 3 comments

Tomorrow Today the City of El Paso goes to court in Austin to affirm their conviction that the arena they

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 4 – Beyond Thinking

2017-05-29 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Video Leave a comment

Here’s the final chapter of the Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds program. By now you’ve probably given away all your material

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I’ll Get To It Later

2017-05-29 GC Adams Uncategorized 3 comments

An old buddy lamented my lack of columns lately and mentioned that he enjoyed them. Which he’s enjoying, the columns

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 3 – The Serpent and the Lotus

2017-05-28 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Video Leave a comment

Sounds almost conjugal, doesn’t it? Well, it is. See Part 1 here. I’ll post the final episode tomorrow.

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Sunday Matinee: Immortals

2017-05-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a movie about Greek gods and mortals and a magic bow. Everything you could want in a movie except

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 2 – The Spiral

2017-05-27 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Video Leave a comment

Here’s more of the insubstantial substance of the universe. You can watch Part 1 here. Part 3 tomorrow.

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 1 – Akasha

2017-05-26 elrichiboy Art, Video One comment

Do you want to know the unknowable? You can’t. But here’s someone trying to scratch the surface. In four parts.

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“You’re Fired!”

2017-05-26 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Quality of Life Projects 3 comments

The El Paso Times reports today that mayoral candidate David Saucedo wants to fire the heads of the City’s permanent

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City of Dust: Chloride, New Mexico

2017-05-24 John Mulhouse City of Dust, What to Do Leave a comment

A Resurrection I’ll admit that many of the places I visit are run-down and lonesome and the tales tend to

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