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  • Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs

    2025-12-02 Rich Wright

    Did you see last week that the City Manager wanted to charge every house and business in El Paso a monthly fee to fix the

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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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Welcome to El Paso. Now Go Home.

2017-03-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Media, Slider 2 comments

El Paso is hot right now. There’s Kahlid. He’s some kind of a rock star. No doubt City Council is

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Road Kill

2017-03-27 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

There is only one entrance into this world but there are a lot of exits out of it. Most of

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Then Let’s Build an Arena

2017-03-27 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

By all means. Here’s the El Paso Times inadvertently weighing in on the arena controversy. Now, with a baseball stadium

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Can’t we go back to the drawing board?

2017-03-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Here’s a breakdown of El Paso County’s population change for the year ending July 1, 2016, courtesy U.S. Census Bureau

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Sunday Matinee: Some Chinese Fantasy Movie

2017-03-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

This movie is like Ray Harryhausen’s Sinbad visits Wonder Woman. Or something. In Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese?), with English subtitles.

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City of Dust: Yeso, New Mexico

2017-03-26 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

Life (and Death) by Railroad Most of the ghost towns I visit have been written about by Philip Varney in

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Cartel de Sinaloa Documentary Chapter 3

2017-03-25 elrichiboy Mexico Leave a comment

In this final episode of Clandestino: El Cartel de Sinaloa, the documentarians take us up to and over the border

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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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The People Speak!

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  • Gary Cobb on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Kent Paterson on Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
  • Lawrence Feltham on City of Dust: Dunlap, New Mexico
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  • John G. Dungan on Thank the Taxpayers
  • John G. Dungan on Can’t We Just Wait?
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