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  • Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa

    2025-11-25 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Customers of the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA) in the New Mexico border communities of Sunland Park and Santa Teresa will

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  • Again, Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-11-23 elrichiboy

    I’m probably late to the party with this. Won’t AI generated “people” start infiltrating your social media feed? Come on, AI is going to be

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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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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”

2024-08-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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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”

2024-08-09 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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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”

2024-08-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Deadliest City in Mexico | Tijuana: 7 Murders a Day”

2024-08-03 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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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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“The Day Stockholm Became a Syndrome”

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Tales from the Crypt

2024-07-11 Rich Wright Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin, Edmundo "Mundo!" Calderon, Joyce Wilson, Opinion, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

by Rich Wright Former City Manager Joyce Wilson must be off her meds again, God bless her. Here is the

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“There’s nothing to do here.”

2024-07-10 Rich Wright ballpark, Economic Development, Opportunity Costs, Slider, Taxes One comment

by Rich Wright The world is getting smaller. Okay, not really, but it seems like it. Computer algorithms keep pushing

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PART 3 BIG KID’S PALACE- “The Joy Spot of C. Juarez, Mexico.”

2024-07-08 Bob Chessey History, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

In early March 1924 an announcement by the US government rattled and jarred the profit margins of the tourist centered

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“Fort Algiers”

2024-07-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 2 comments
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Ava Gardner and George Raft in “Whistle Stop”

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