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  • “1964: The Year That Changed America”

    2025-06-07 elrichiboy
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  • Dr. M. C. Melanson’s One-Track Mind

    2025-06-06 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey Narcotic traffickers aim to profit by delivering contraband across geopolitical lines; however, there are physicians who trespass the legal medical line to

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  • El Paso is a Small Town

    2025-06-02 Rich Wright

    Today’s front page headline of the dead tree edition of our English almost-daily newspaper is “Five new restaurants to try in El Paso”. The story

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  • Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes”

    2025-06-01 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso 23rd Biggest City in the U.S.?

    2025-05-30 Rich Wright

    From ElPasoMatters.org: The population in El Paso’s city limits grew by 150 people between 2023 and 2024, continuing a decade-long plateauing of people, according to

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  • CRRUA Update: State of New Mexico Sues

    2025-05-29 Rich Wright

    From SourceNM.com: New Mexico’s environment department on Wednesday announced it has filed a lawsuit against the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority and has asked the

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  • The Sunland Park-Santa Teresa Chronicles: Cannabis, CRRUA and Capitalism

    2025-05-29 Kent Paterson

    The evening of May 21, 2025 will surely count as one of the liveliest meetings of the Sunland Park City Council. Carrying a 50-person capacity,

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  • The New Hypernormalization

    2025-05-28 Rich Wright

    From TheGuardian.com: First articulated in 2005 by scholar Alexei Yurchak to describe the civilian experience in Soviet Russia, hypernormalization describes life in a society where

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  • No Mas La Puntita

    2025-05-26 Rich Wright

    From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council voted eight to zero to pass a resolution authorizing the submission of an application to the Office of Congresswoman

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  • Gallium in Round Top Mountain

    2025-05-25 Rich Wright

    From EcoPortal.net, a story titled 36,000,000 kg under this American region ? It’s better than lithium and the end of China: A recent discovery may

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  • CRRUA in the Whirlwind: The Future of People and Water in Sunland Park-Santa Teresa at the Crossroads

    2025-05-17 Kent Paterson

    by Kent Paterson Like the wind, dust and mist that sting the spring of 2025, stormy developments surround the fundamental question of water and wastewater

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  • The Apartment

    2025-05-14 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright His hands are filthy. He looks at them where they protrude from the frayed cuffs of his dark flannel shirt as though

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Proper Printshop Art en Vivo: Peter Svarzbein

2016-11-10 elrichiboy Art, What to Do 16 comments

Tonight at Proper Printshop’s Art en Vivo, artist Peter Svarzbein will be dragging the squeegee across the silk to make

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Did you miss me?

2016-11-10 elrichiboy Navel Gazing Leave a comment

My hard drive quit. El Chuqueño went dark, mostly, right before the election. But we’re back. If it means anything,

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Marquee Brass Band at Ardovino’s Desert Crossing

2016-11-08 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

I suspect, after the election results come in, you’re going to need a drink. Ardovino’s Desert Crossing is hosting the

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La Santa Cecilia at Tricky Falls this Thursday

2016-11-07 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do One comment

La Santa Cecilia is a throwback to the Golden Age of Mexican music. More Los Tres Panchos than Jose Alfredo

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Who are you voting against?

2016-11-07 elrichiboy Politics 3 comments

It kills me that there are enthusiastic supporters of the two major presidential candidates. The candidates don’t even talk about

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Today I voted.

2016-11-04 Reesa Turner Uncategorized 3 comments

Today I’d like to welcome contributor Reesa Turner, who I hope will contribute often. I’m exhausted from lack of sleep

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This Week in the Blogs: 04.Nov.16

2016-11-04 elrichiboy Meta Blog, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here we are again. The effervescent DavidK at RefusetheJuice wants you to know that the latest El Paso City Government

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Location, Location, Relocation

2016-11-04 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

The City of El Paso has promised to relocate residents living in the neighborhood in which the downtown arena will

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It’s a Gamble

2016-11-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Allegiant Airlines offers flights from El Paso to Las Vegas for $39. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Allegiant’s airplanes

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Protesting That Stupid Arena

2016-11-03 elrichiboy Downtown, What to Do Leave a comment

[Ho ho! I don’t know how to read a calendar! There’s a meeting today, and one NEXT Saturday. Not tomorrow.

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The Fenenbucks Strategy

2016-11-03 elrichiboy Politics, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

News flash: There’s more to life than the internet. Some people only use their computers to make phone calls, or

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Bikers Arrested, Y Que?

2016-11-03 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? It’s the next chapter, and maybe the culmination, of a

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Wake Me When I’m Dead

2016-11-02 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 2 comments

The Rubin Center, the art gallery on the UTEP campus, is hosting an event this Thursday (tomorrow) from 6 to

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More Champions League Already?

2016-11-02 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Holy moly. Yesterday was the first day of Week 4 for the Champions League, and today is the second. Today’s

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The Fenenbucks Controversy

2016-11-02 elrichiboy Politics, School Districts, Slider, Taxes 6 comments

Graphic designer Jud Burgess has been campaigning against the El Paso Independent School District $669 million bond proposal. [Disclosure: Mr.

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Tsuru versus Versa

2016-11-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a crash test between a Mexican Nissan Tsuru, the cheapest Nissan sold in Mexico, and a Nissan Versa, the

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Selling the Intangibles

2016-10-31 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development Leave a comment

The El Paso Times reports that last week, Mayor Oscar Leeser hosted a familiarization tour for bond underwriters. El Paso

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Sunday Matinee: The General

2016-10-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s the Buster Keaton classic from 1926. This one has a soundtrack, but it’s a silent movie, so you can

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The High Cost of Top-Down Gentrification

2016-10-29 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development One comment

Here’s a killer story from Chucopedia by Moncia Krause about the neighbors who live in the footprint and the shadow

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Livin’ Easy, Lovin’ Free

2016-10-28 elrichiboy Art, It's All Good 2 comments

You can thank me for this one later.

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