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  • “The League of Gentlemen”

    2025-06-08 elrichiboy
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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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Common Wisdom

2016-10-19 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

This is a partial text of a public comment made by Steve Strumer to El Paso City Council on 18

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Champions League

2016-10-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Are you one of those poor slobs who needs an excuse to day drink? Your salvation is at hand. Today

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Today’s Civics Lesson

2016-10-19 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

I learned yesterday that the City’s values are Integrity, Respect, Excellence, Accountability, and People. I learned that because they were

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Tomorrow is the City Council Meeting About that Stupid Arena

2016-10-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics 4 comments

The downtown arena is stupid. We don’t need it. We never needed it. And our elected officials aren’t telling us

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The World is Changing

2016-10-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics Leave a comment

Here’s a video from 2011 telling us how the world was changing. But because it was made in 2011, it’s

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What about that arena?

2016-10-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

You are probably perplexed by the impetus to put a new arena downtown. What’s going on there? More than meets

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It’s Time to Pick Up a New Hobby

2016-10-14 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

Do you know what’s wrong with El Paso? If you think it’s no population growth, falling real wages, or one

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Who Wants the Arena?

2016-10-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics 2 comments

The City announced today that the new $180 million arena will be built in that cool historic neighborhood south of

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Get ready. Dystopia is just around the corner.

2016-10-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Juarez, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Here’s some cheery news to put the upcoming weekend in perspective: According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The

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CLEAT Rides Again

2016-10-12 elrichiboy Politics Leave a comment

According to this story from KVIA, the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas has asked the County of El Paso

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Hatch, USA

2016-10-12 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

It’s chile season. Maybe not for much longer, but ACT NOW to make sure you get your chile dose through

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Viva Mexico, Cabrones!

2016-10-12 elrichiboy Mexico, Politics Leave a comment

Here’s a news story that tells us that Mexican politicians want to loosen up that country’s gun laws. A Senator

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If they’ve got the money, why don’t they fix the schools?

2016-10-12 elrichiboy School Districts, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

The El Paso Independent School District wants you to believe that they will be good stewards of your tax dollars.

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Explaining Mr. Trump

2016-10-11 elrichiboy Politics Leave a comment

Some people’s jobs are excuses for their bad behavior. “He’s a lawyer,” people will say. Or “What do you expect

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Let’s Build Something Shiny

2016-10-10 elrichiboy School Districts, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Do you really think that all of the problems at the El Paso Independent School District will be addressed with

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They’ll Tell You Whatever Works

2016-10-07 elrichiboy School Districts, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Those people promoting the El Paso Independent School District’s bond issue aren’t above playing fast and loose with whatever version

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Can I get some more money over here, please? I’ve squandered the money you already gave me.

2016-10-07 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes 2 comments

Do you think the only problems at the El Paso Independent School District are ageing infrastructures? And do you think,

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This Week in the Blogosphere

2016-10-07 elrichiboy Meta Blog Leave a comment

This week in the blogs: DavidK at RefusetheJuice and Jaime Abeytia of the LionStarBlog re-engaged in their long-running cat fight.

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Tim Razo at Proper Print Shop Tonight

2016-10-06 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Southwestern multi-media artist Tim Razo brings his designs to Proper Print Shop, 800 Montana, tonight starting at 6:00, as part

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The Americans at 5 Points Bistro Tonight!

2016-10-06 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

The Americans bring their Americana folk rock to the 5 Points Bistro, with local stalwarts Sorry About Your Sister providing

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  • “The League of Gentlemen”
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  • Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes”

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