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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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  • The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises

    2025-10-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Amid the landscape of yucca and creosote plants, artificial intelligence-driven Project Stargate took shape this week just a tad up the road from

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  • Diminishing El Paso

    2025-10-06 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue to see little to moderate

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  • “Highway Dragnet”

    2025-10-05 elrichiboy
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  • “The 1916 [Irish] Rising of Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”

    2025-10-04 elrichiboy
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  • Ouch!

    2025-10-03 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times delivered its mandated circulation report on page 5A of Thursday’s dead tree edition, and it’s not pretty. On July 25, 2025,

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  • Juarez’ 2025 Bullfighting Season

    2025-10-01 Rich Wright

    While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at 8pm at the Alberto Balderas

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  • The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown

    2025-09-30 Rich Wright

    Downtown El Paso is already barely accessible. What effect will 5 years of freeway and deck park construction have on it? All those businesses who

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  • “Park Plaza 605”

    2025-09-28 elrichiboy
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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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The Chamanas at Lowbrow Palace Tonight

2016-11-23 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

Local rock stars the Chamanas play the Lowbrow Palace at a free, all age show tonight. The nominal start time

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Jim Tolbert’s Hamilton Moment

2016-11-23 Reesa Turner City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena 11 comments

by Reesa Turner I confronted my acquaintance, Jim Tolbert at the Castner Range Forever event, in the 10 minutes or

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The Definition of “Ancillary”

2016-11-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, The Arena Leave a comment

From our good friends at Google: adjective: ancillary providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization,

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Arena-gate: Another lie?

2016-11-22 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

This weekend the El Paso Inc. ran a story about the City’s newest volley in the fight over the arena.

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Stomp and the Globetrotters

2016-11-21 elrichiboy sports Leave a comment

Check it out:

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Champions League Tomorrow

2016-11-21 elrichiboy sports, Uncategorized, What to Do Leave a comment

Greetings, sports fans. Tomorrow is the fifth week of the first playoff round of the Champions League of the Union

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El Mariachi Rides Again!

2016-11-21 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider, What to Do One comment

There’s a new bar over on the Drag. El Mariachi. Okay, it’s not new if you’re a dinosaur. But still,

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Taking a Ride

2016-11-21 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

How long do you think the trolley will run every day? How long, till, like the Wyler Aerial Tramway, it

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The Summer of ’69

2016-11-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Media, Slider 2 comments

A conscious reader alerted me to this piece on MSN.com: When Michael Lightbourn agreed to look at an old hot

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Boeing closing local plant, sending jobs to Huntsville

2016-11-19 elrichiboy Economic Development, sports One comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? Boeing, an important part of El Paso’s defense industry for years,

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The Lost Emails: Day 4

2016-11-19 elrichiboy City Council, The Arena 3 comments

I got up early this morning, while the rest of the house was asleep, and booted up my laptop, as

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Hey! Ho! Let’s Go!

2016-11-17 Reesa Turner Art Leave a comment

by Reesa Turner I visited the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles this October. It’s near the Staples center…where Hollywood Park

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I’ve got a pal in Kalamazoo

2016-11-17 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Did you hear about the philanthropists in Kalamazoo, Michigan? The city of Kalamazoo, Michigan recently approached two local philanthropists about

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Is your City Representative lying to you?

2016-11-17 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena 5 comments

As I wiped the sleep from my eyes this morning, I fully expected to see those damning emails in today’s

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M. A. M. O. N.

2016-11-16 elrichiboy Art, Politics Leave a comment

This is good. M.A.M.O.N. – Latinos VS. Donald Trump / Ale Damiani from Taxi Films on Vimeo.

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A New Development in the Rail Yard Controversy

2016-11-16 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena 2 comments

Here’s a twist. According to KVIA: El Paso city Rep. Cortney Niland charged today that the Union Pacific Railroad is

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El Paso: A Metaphor

2016-11-16 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council 2 comments

This post originally appeared on 30 July 2015. Things haven’t improved since then. El Paso is like that really nice

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Mission Accomplished!

2016-11-15 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Take a look at this October 24 story from the El Paso Inc. Now that City Council has approved a

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City Council: “If we’d known the truth, we probably would have chosen the rail yard.”

2016-11-14 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 9 comments

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? A majority of City Council members told the El Paso

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Are we getting hosed?

2016-11-13 elrichiboy Economic Development, Taxes Leave a comment

Here’s the latest from the committee with the Orwellian name, the Public Service Board, via the Times: El Paso Water

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