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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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Journalism Intern Opportunity

2017-01-09 elrichiboy Opportunity!, Slider One comment

Have you ever wanted to be a journalist? Me neither. There are different ways to get to be a journalist.

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Plasma Sword: A Trailer for a Local Film

2017-01-09 elrichiboy Art, Go Local 3 comments

Can the movie be as good as this trailer featuring all our local heroes? PLASMA SWORD from Roberto Urrea on

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Breaking News: Cortney Won’t Run for Mayor

2017-01-09 elrichiboy City Council, Politics One comment

The word on the street is that District 8 Representative Cortney Niland was considering a run for mayor. She just

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It’s getting deep.

2017-01-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

In this Sunday’s El Paso Times, former Mayor John Cook says: But Cook said he is concerned that even combining

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EPEC At It Again

2017-01-08 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider One comment

The El Paso Times didn’t include this item in their online edition, but I found it anyway through a Google

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It’s Election Time. Sort of.

2017-01-06 elrichiboy City Council, Opportunity!, Slider One comment

We don’t vote till May. But now’s the time to get your shit together. We’re rushing headlong into the season

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The Truth About Duranguito

2017-01-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

Those politicians sitting in chambers at City Hall would like you to believe that their hearts grew three sizes one

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Corruption at DHS

2017-01-04 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

I’ve often wondered why the Juarez plaza is so hotly contested by Mexico’s drug trafficking organizations. I surmise that there’s

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The Texas Standard with Rich Wright

2017-01-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Yesterday we were driving up to Carlsbad Caverns and we heard this piece on the radio. I guess they were

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Renovations to Coronado’s Football Stadium?

2017-01-02 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

Some people (you know who you are) have been speculating about whether some of the $75 million in bond money

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Time Flies

2016-12-31 GC Adams Slider 2 comments

Man, 2016 just flew by. It seems that the older I get, the faster time flies by, unless I’m listening

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Another Perspective by John G. Dungan

2016-12-31 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 5 comments

Frequent commenter John G. Dungan sent this in to remind us of our history. The constant push from City Council

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SWAT Nation: Welcome to Amerika!

2016-12-30 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Here’s a disturbing video of a SWAT raid on some citizens’ house, taken from a documentary called Do Not Resist.

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Brutus Speaks!

2016-12-30 elrichiboy Education, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Media, Slider Leave a comment

Brutus over there at ElPasoSpeak makes some good points with deeper implications, in this post titled EPISD bonds-story changes again.

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Mexican Gas

2016-12-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Mexico, Slider One comment

Multiple news sources report that the average price for gasoline in Mexico will rise from 14 to 20 percent in

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Make a Difference

2016-12-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider 3 comments

People are wingeing all over my Facebook feed about this carrot-hybrid we elected to be president. Well, get used to

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Emily Davis Tour Kickoff at Proper Printshop Tonight!

2016-12-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Okay, music fans. El Paso’s songbird Emily Davis is playing a show at Proper Printshop to finance gas and ramen

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Our Economic Forecast

2016-12-28 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider 5 comments

Good news, chuqueños. The foreboding sense of doom you’ve been feeling for the past several years is not a brain

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What people watch

2016-12-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso One comment

Here’s an interesting article from the New York Times, delineating the most popular teevee shows in different markets. In El

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Learn to Play the Piano (Sort of)

2016-12-27 elrichiboy Education, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Is your much better half after you to make some New Year’s resolutions? When Claire asks me what I want

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The People Speak!

  • 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
  • walter white on Can’t We Just Wait?
  • John G. Dungan on Thank the Taxpayers
  • John G. Dungan on Can’t We Just Wait?
  • Dane Aguilar on La Fiesta, Downtown Juarez
  • Denise M Schubbe on City of Dust: Organ, New Mexico
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  • Jane Yee on The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises

El Chuqueño Lately

  • “Siberia: The Coldest Place on Earth”
  • Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa
  • Big Brother is Watching
  • Again, Who’s the New Guy?
  • “Fog Island”

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