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  • The Apartment

    2025-05-14 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright His hands are filthy. He looks at them where they protrude from the frayed cuffs of his dark flannel shirt as though

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  • Blow, Wind, Blow

    2025-05-13 Rich Wright

    From a May 4 post on Gizmodo.com: This year’s drought-exacerbated dusty season is “truly exceptional—one for the record books,” said Thomas Gill, an environmental scientist

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  • “Yes, Your Arrogancy”

    2025-05-12 elrichiboy

    From ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso City Council this week will take another look at public engagement at meetings after a vote limiting audience speakers to

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  • Lady Liberty

    2025-05-11 Kent Paterson
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  • The New Soccer Stadium

    2025-04-26 Rich Wright

    From Mexico’s national media outlet Milenio.com: Alejandra de la Vega, propietaria de los Bravos de Juárez, ha confirmado uno de los proyectos más ambiciosos en

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  • “Prohibition Era Bars in Juarez”

    2025-04-24 elrichiboy

    Local historian and frequent contributor to El Chuqueño Bob Chessey gives a talk about the proliferation of bars and bar owners on Saturday, April 26,

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  • A Border Story You Might Have Missed

    2025-04-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson If you rely on El Paso online media for your news, you might have missed one of the biggest stories in the

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  • About the Deck Park

    2025-04-23 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright You may have noticed that the deck park is still in play, even after funding sources have dried up. Here’s Mayor Renard

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  • Elephant March

    2025-04-22 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright When I was six, my father took me to the circus. My father drank a lot, and drunk or sober he seemed

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  • Sphere and Shakedown in Las Vegas: 60 Years Later the Grateful Dead Family Keeps Truckin’ On

    2025-04-21 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson For the second year in a row, the Good Ship Terrapin Station has landed in Las Vegas, Nevada. The prestigious passengers disembarking

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  • Retrovision: I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

    2025-04-16 elrichiboy

    This post originally appeared on 23 Novemeber, 2021. I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing

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  • Community Forum with EPISD D1 Candidates

    2025-04-15 Xavier Miranda

    From Xavier Miranda Please consider attending this community forum.  Our public schools face daunting challenges coming from the federal and state levels.  An array of

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Rancho El Paso

2017-03-10 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 2 comments

Our City Fathers would have you believe that El Paso is a modern, dynamic city, but really we’re just a

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Khalid Video

2017-03-09 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment

Y’all been hearing about this local cat who’s blowing it up. But maybe you haven’t seen or heard him yet.

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City of Dust: Dripping Springs, New Mexico

2017-03-09 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

Cool Water The hike from the Dripping Springs Natural Area visitor center to a cluster of lovely old ruins tucked

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The Cristalero War

2017-03-09 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

They’re killing people in Juarez. On Monday they hung a banner off a bridge. The full text of the banner

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The Other Shoe Drops . . .

2017-03-08 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider 5 comments

but it hasn’t hit the ground yet. The El Paso Times reports this morning that Mayor Oscar Leeser vetoed the

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The Fourth Anniversary of the Killing of Daniel Saenz

2017-03-08 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement, Politics, Slider Leave a comment

Four years ago today, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot and killed handcuffed prisoner Daniel Saenz in the sallyport

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WUGC Highlights

2017-03-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Check it out.

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The Simplest Thing

2017-03-06 GC Adams Music Leave a comment

Tonight, as I walked the dogs around a park we’ve lived near for 20 years, I watched a family playing

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The 40 47 Days of Lent

2017-03-06 elrichiboy If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it 2 comments

The Church is scamming you. From Wikipedia: Lent is traditionally described as lasting for forty days, in commemoration of the

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Sunday Matinee: Triple 9

2017-03-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a cool dirty cop movie, with the MS 13 and Russian mafia. What more could you ask for? With

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Scary video.

2017-03-04 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment

Here’s a horror movie that will keep you up at night. From the Masters of Horror over there at the

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Logan Starts Today

2017-03-03 elrichiboy Video, What to Do One comment

They say they shot some of this movie near El Paso. I haven’t seen it. Lemme know.

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Friday Short: The Gunfighter

2017-03-03 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment

I know you’re busy today, because we can’t all work for the the City, so here’s a short video to

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Follow the Money

2017-03-03 elrichiboy City Council, The Arena One comment

Most El Pasoans aren’t aware that the City gets a little juice on all its projects. It’s called “Construction Management.”

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South by Southwest Will Rat You Out

2017-03-03 elrichiboy Art Leave a comment

Like Austin, South by Southwest used to be cool. Not anymore. Here’s part of their artists’ agreement, according to Rolling

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City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico

2017-03-02 John Mulhouse City of Dust 84 comments

Pat Garret Really Should Have Stayed the Night Organ, New Mexico isn’t really a ghost town these days, but I’m

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#Highland Park, Episode 4: Larry Wants His Keys

2017-03-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

More from those folks at #Highland Park. Check it out.

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Retrovision: Trouble in Paradise

2017-03-02 elrichiboy Juarez, Retrovision Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on May 21, 2012. Last week I went to Juarez to see which bars were being

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The Problem With Economic Growth

2017-03-01 elrichiboy Economic Development, The Arena 6 comments

The problem with using Economic Growth as a rationale for building the arena is that the arena isn’t creating any

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AMLO Presente!

2017-03-01 elrichiboy Mexico, Politics, What to Do One comment

Next Monday, perennial Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador will visit El Paso courting the vote of Mexican expatriates.

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