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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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Feliz Cumpleaños, Mary!

2017-03-24 elrichiboy Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

Mary, the bartender at the Buen Tiempo, is celebrating her birthday today. The Buen Tiempo is the oldest bar in

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Hasta la Vista, Baby

2017-03-24 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 4 comments

The latest population estimates from the Census Bureau are out. The good news is that our limited water resources are

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Tickets, Please

2017-03-23 elrichiboy City Council, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s something interesting you may have overlooked. According to this post by Brutus over there at ElPasoSpeak.com, those bonuses the

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There’s One Born Every Minute

2017-03-23 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Slider 9 comments

The El Paso Times reports today that the El Paso Electric Company is introducing a solar energy plan. El Paso

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Dangerous Naivete

2017-03-21 elrichiboy Politics 2 comments

El Chuqueño doesn’t endorse candidates. We’ve had our hearts broken too many times. But anyone who says they can build

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Seeing Birds and Stars

2017-03-20 GC Adams Art, Music Leave a comment

Loose Dead Grass Season has now given way to Horny Bird Season, which is sometimes known as Suicidal Bird Season

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Sunday Matinee: Dead Man Running

2017-03-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a movie wid fiddy as the heavy. It’s pretty good. Check it out.

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Cartel de Sinaloa Documentary Chapter 2

2017-03-18 elrichiboy Mexico Leave a comment

Did you see Chapter 1? In Chapter 2, we get to meet a sicario and cop who explains his ties

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The Border 80 Years Ago

2017-03-17 elrichiboy Art, Media Leave a comment

Here are some great pictures of the border in the late 1930s, from a story in the Washington Post. As

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The Con

2017-03-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Slider 3 comments

Did you see this story about the million dollar condos some people want to build on the west side? The

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The Chicano Batman Show is Going to Sell Out

2017-03-16 elrichiboy Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Chicano Batman is playing the Perch at Tricky Falls on May 29, and it looks like that show will sell

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Downtown Living Tour

2017-03-16 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

The Downtown Management District is offering a tour of all the lovely places to live in DWNTWN! Here’s the money

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It’s Almost Funny

2017-03-16 elrichiboy City Council, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Slider 4 comments

Here’s an incredible video I found on el Feis last night. You better check it out before it disappears. In

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Juarez: A Comprehensive Briefing

2017-03-15 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s an article from Business Insider that provides a pretty complete review and update on the violence in Juarez. If

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Name Calling

2017-03-13 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

A couple of weeks ago Mary and I went to go see Skye dance in the UTEP dance department’s show

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So Sick Fest Hits El Paso

2017-03-13 Hope Wright Art, shows, What to Do One comment

It’s March in Texas, and that can only mean one thing: South By Southwest is about to take over your

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Representative Noe is a Hypocrite

2017-03-13 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

God bless them, City Council is in over their heads and they don’t know what to do. Did you read

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Sunday Matinee: Reign of Assassanis

2017-03-12 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

This is a first rate Chinese sword fight movie. These Chinese martial arts movies are kind of like superhero movies.

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Cartel de Sinaloa Documentary

2017-03-11 elrichiboy Mexico Leave a comment

Remember when Sean Penn and Kate del Castillo met with Chapo Guzman? The Sinaloa Cartel wasn’t done with their publicity

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Me and Paul

2017-03-11 elrichiboy Media, Music Leave a comment

Here’s a killer story about Willie Nelson’s drummer, best friend, and bodyguard, Paul English. And it’s got an El Paso

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