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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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  • “Yes, Your Arrogancy”

    2025-05-12 elrichiboy

    From ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso City Council this week will take another look at public engagement at meetings after a vote limiting audience speakers to

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Ultimate!

2016-09-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment
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The Killers and the Hitchhiker

2016-09-07 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Media Leave a comment

This sounds like a movie. Read it now, or watch in a couple of years on our Sunday Matinee. A

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Do You Like Cigarettes After Sex?

2016-09-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Because they’re playing tonight they played last night at the Lowbrow Palace. Check it out.

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Remember when El Paso was cool? They’re back.

2016-09-06 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Remember this story I posted back in March about that El Paso band Cigarettes After Sex that achieved internet stardom

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Death by a Thousand Cuts

2016-09-06 elrichiboy Taxes Leave a comment

The El Paso Inc. has a story this week about this year’s tax increases. Tax hikes are rarely popular. This

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Consultation With a Doctor: $3.35

2016-09-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 3 comments

What could be more fun than talking about health care? Our deductible is so high that I don’t even know

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Sunday Matinee: Get the Gringo

2016-09-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

For you viewing pleasure, Get the Gringo, starring Mel Gibson, in a Mexican prison. This is the best movie you’re

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Credit Where Credit is Due

2016-09-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Media One comment

We built this city on rock and roll.

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We’re on the wrong side of the future.

2016-09-02 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 6 comments

The biggest major at UTEP is Criminal Justice. Because law enforcement and corrections are the biggest employers in El Paso.

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Here’s Something You Weren’t Expecting

2016-09-01 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development 2 comments

City Council should get a raise. I know that they’re pretty worthless and they haven’t been doing us any favors.

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Can you get a cheaper EpiPen in Juarez?

2016-08-31 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 2 comments

I was going to tell you how you could get an EpiPen in Jaurez. You know, like in Canada: The

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What were you thinking?

2016-08-31 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

All those QoL projects are stupid. I think that none of them will significantly improve anyone’s real Quality of Life,

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Now It’s Just a Matter of Time

2016-08-30 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development, Taxes 3 comments

Well, we’ve got bars and hotels. Triple A ball. A nice park in the middle of downtown. Pokemon Go. Big

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Velando Juan Gabriel

2016-08-29 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

Juan Gabriel, I think, shaped the way gays in Juarez think about themselves. On Avenida Juarez, Juanga stares down from

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Sunday Matinee

2016-08-28 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Here’s the 2010 grind classic, Machete, on YouTube. And remember, Machete don’t text.

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A Rare Word from the El Paso Times

2016-08-28 elrichiboy Media, Taxes, Uncategorized Leave a comment

This was on their website today: The problem is that people tend to gauge their ability to afford purchases based

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Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears at Tricky Falls TONIGHT!!!

2016-08-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

This is the last time I’m going to tell you. Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears are playing at

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Live Large at Proper

2016-08-26 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

In El Paso, we all know someone who prints t-shirts. Your brother. Your cousin. Your girlfriend’s boyfriend. That kid in

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Fixed Idea at the Lowbrow Palace

2016-08-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Are you trapped in a loveless engagement? Do you want to break up with your significant other, but don’t know

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“You messed up. You trusted us.”

2016-08-25 elrichiboy Media, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

The media is asking us to remember that our taxes are going up because we approved all those tax intensive

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