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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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  • You and the Juarez Walking Tour

    2025-09-22 Rich Wright

    I’ve been offering Juarez Walking Tours to anyone willing to pay my meager fee for more than 10 years. Over that period, I’ve barely taken

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  • “The Pretender”

    2025-09-21 elrichiboy
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  • “Europe in the Wake of the Fall of Rome”

    2025-09-20 elrichiboy
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  • Paul Foster is Selling Land in his Campo del Sol Development

    2025-09-19 Rich Wright

    From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council unanimously approved an amendment to a 2020 incentives agreement to allow for the sale of 45 acres in the

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  • “The Eyes of Chihuahua”

    2025-09-18 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from TexasObserver.org about the Torre Centinela, that surveillance tower going up in downtown Ciudad Juarez that will soon be looking over our

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  • The Project Jupiter Chronicles: A Charged Countdown to September 19

    2025-09-17 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson September 19 looms as a fateful day in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. That’s when the Doña Ana County Commission will meet

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  • El Paso Matter’s Fight for Higher Taxes

    2025-09-15 Rich Wright

    Two recent articles on ElPasoMatters.com portray El Paso as a low-tax city. Here’s a snippet from one of the pieces: To understand the impact of

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  • Heath Haussaman on Project Jupiter

    2025-09-11 Rich Wright

    Here’s veteran journalist Heath Haussaman with a deep dive into the $165 billion Project Jupiter that’s proposed for Sunland Park. ARTICLE SUMMARY:On its face Project

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  • “The Fat Man”

    2025-09-07 elrichiboy
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Juárez Multimedia Art Show Connects Rivers, Borders and Healing

2024-04-19 Kent Paterson Art, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson If you get a chance, you might saunter over to Ciudad Juárez to see the Somatica Terreste

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Impact Fees, Developers, and Politics

2024-04-18 Rich Wright City Council, El Paso Electric Company, El Paso Water, Politics, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 11 comments

From KVIA.com: El Paso Water and the City of El Paso are discussing potential changes to impact fees, which homebuilders

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El Paso’s Rio Bosque Wetlands Park threatened by unchecked forces of development.

2024-04-17 Jon Rezendes Slider, The Environment, TxDOT Leave a comment

This post was originally published on April 10, 2024 by ricklobello on the ILoveParks WordPress blog. In just a few

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City of Dust: Mystery Photos

2024-04-16 John Mulhouse City of Dust, Slider Leave a comment

by John Mulhouse I was sent two vintage photos from unidentified locations by someone that wants to know where their

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Iris Dement – “Let the Mystery Be”

2024-04-15 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Sunland Park Déjà Vu: Water, Management Crisis and Community Protest

2024-04-15 Kent Paterson CRRUA, New Mexico, Slider, Sunland Park, Water 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Momentous days riveted April in the southern New Mexico border communities of Sunland Park and neighboring Santa

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City of Dust: Cabezón, New Mexico

2024-04-11 John Mulhouse City of Dust, Slider 3 comments

by John Mulhouse Beneath the Giant’s Head If you’re tooling around the Rio Puerco Valley northwest of Albuquerque, one feature

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The Arena Saga

2024-04-10 Rich Wright Arrogance, Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Economic Development, Renard Johnson, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

I am tired of writing about the ongoing swindle that local governments keep trying to pull on us. I’m talking

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Migrant Deaths Skyrocket in the El Paso Sector

2024-04-09 elrichiboy Migration, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a horrifying story from TheBorderChronicle.com that brings to light skyrocketing migrant deaths in and around El Paso. As safe

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“Abe Partidge’s 403d Freakout”

2024-04-09 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Ann Baxter and Sterling Hayden in “The Come On”

2024-04-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Sentinel Tower Update

2024-04-06 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider, Surveillance, Uncategorized 5 comments

They’re bringing it. Pretty soon you’ll be able to see it from El Paso. It’s the Torre Sentinela. You remember:

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In Other News

2024-03-31 Rich Wright News, Slider 3 comments

According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, El Paso County’s population grew from

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Yul Brynner in “Port of New York”

2024-03-31 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Gregory Peck in “I Walk the Line”

2024-03-24 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Ma Barker and Her Crime Family”

2024-03-23 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“I Love Trouble”

2024-03-17 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Ninja: The Real Shadow Warriors Of Medieval Japan”

2024-03-16 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Why We Can’t Build an Arena in the Rail Yard by City Hall

2024-03-12 Rich Wright Joyce Wilson, Liar Liar, Slider, The Arena One comment

Seems like the perfect location, right? Big. Mostly vacant. Downtown. But Union Pacific won’t deal with the City. Why not?

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Joe T. Hodo – “Padre Solalinde / Las Patronas”

2024-03-11 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo, Video Leave a comment
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