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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 elrichiboy

    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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  • Blow, Wind, Blow

    2025-05-13 Rich Wright

    From a May 4 post on Gizmodo.com: This year’s drought-exacerbated dusty season is “truly exceptional—one for the record books,” said Thomas Gill, an environmental scientist

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The Americans at 5 Points Bistro

2016-10-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

The Americans bring their white boy blues to 5 Points Bistro tomorrow, Thursday, October 6, with locals Sorry About Your

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Juanga Plaza

2016-10-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

They launched La Gran Plaza de Juan Gabriel last week. I went Sunday, after the VIPs had made their speeches

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The Day I Had Cancer

2016-10-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider 5 comments

Yesterday I had cancer. I found it the night before. An angry little red bump on my back, on my

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A penny here, a penny there

2016-10-03 elrichiboy School Districts, Taxes One comment

Did you see that USA Today is railing against cable companies’ set top box rental rates? Here’s what the USA

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Make El Paso Great Again

2016-10-03 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development, How to Live in El Paso 7 comments

What do we want from El Paso? If you say industry to alleviate the homeowners’ tax burden, I’m not buying

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Meta Blog: What the other blogs are saying

2016-09-30 elrichiboy City Council, Meta Blog, School Districts, Taxes Leave a comment

You may have noticed that the City settled with Basic IDIQ this week on the San Jacinto Plaza project. DavidK

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Ya Basta!

2016-09-30 elrichiboy Education, School Districts, Taxes 3 comments

Those people advocating for the El Paso Independent School District bond proposal gotta understand. Enough. We’ve got the same people

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Vulgar Talk

2016-09-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez One comment

I know it’s vulgar to talk about money. Unless it’s for the children. And I hate to talk about how

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The Very Best That Other People’s Money Can Buy

2016-09-28 elrichiboy School Districts, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

The El Paso Times reports that three area lawmakers are throwing their support behind the El Paso Independent School District’s

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Brand El Paso, Again

2016-09-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 3 comments

If we want El Paso to gain any ground in the public’s perception, we all have to be pulling in

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Millenial Wha?

2016-09-26 elrichiboy Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Alert reader Alberto tipped me off to this illuminating story in The Architects Newspaper which references San Jacinto Plaza: One

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Take me back to Tulsa. Please.

2016-09-25 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

In Tulsa, if a cop shoots an unarmed man, the cop gets charged. In El Paso, if a cop shoots

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Welcome to the Middle Class

2016-09-25 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I’m talking about you. Everybody thinks they’re middle class, from Bloomberg News: Distilled interpretations of life in America. Check it

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Law and Order: Chucotown

2016-09-23 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

El Paso Times Editor Bob Moore alerted us, via Facebook, to the arbitrator’s ruling on the decision to reinstate Officer

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Where are the buskers?

2016-09-23 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development, How to Live in El Paso 14 comments

With all the struggling musicians in El Paso, I have to wonder why I don’t see more buskers. Last week

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Paul Theroux Writes the Border

2016-09-23 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

Here’s a story in the Smithsonian Magazine by literary giant Paul Theroux about the U.S.-Mexico border, with a guest appearance

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Serving the Community

2016-09-22 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider 2 comments

Some of you expressed great concern over the financial health of the Kentucky Club after the taxman closed it earlier

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Proper Print Shop’s Art en Vivo 22.09.16

2016-09-22 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Hoy es jueves, as we used to say in seventh grade Spanish, and that means that Proper Print Shop is

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It’s Open Season on Handcuffed Prisoners

2016-09-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement 3 comments

None of you have forgotten the horrific “accidental death” of handcuffed prisoner Daniel Saenz when he was shot by El

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reopening day at the kentucky

Okay. Exhale.

2016-09-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Last night I had a horrible dream. I dreamt that the taxman had closed the Kentucky Club, and Donald Trump

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