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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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  • Lady Liberty

    2025-05-11 Kent Paterson
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  • The New Soccer Stadium

    2025-04-26 Rich Wright

    From Mexico’s national media outlet Milenio.com: Alejandra de la Vega, propietaria de los Bravos de Juárez, ha confirmado uno de los proyectos más ambiciosos en

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It depends on who you are

2016-02-23 elrichiboy City Council, It's All Good, Media, Politics 4 comments

Remember just a few short years ago, when City Council was circumventing state law to award El Paso a Triple

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Here’s the proof

2016-02-22 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement Leave a comment

For the people who doubt that Juarez is getting better, here’s evidence, from the El Paso Times: Two men suspected

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Bienvenidos, No Passport Required

2016-02-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Juarez 2 comments

Are you still not going to Juarez because you don’t have a passport? Your reluctance is unfounded. Here’s a quote

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Oops, again.

2016-02-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Media One comment

The Pope is coming to Juarez to highlight his message about immigration? What a great opportunity to talk up El

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An Acceptable Level of Risk?

2016-02-15 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Law Enforcement, Media, Politics 2 comments

If you want to know what it’s like to live in a police state, try walking through the Segundo Barrio

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Papal Economics

2016-02-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Juarez, Law Enforcement, Media, Uncategorized 2 comments

Besides the million dollars we’re spending on security, do you think the Pope’s visit to Juarez will have an economic

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Goodbye

2016-01-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

You could have called to say goodbye. I might have tried to stop you, but maybe not. Everyone has the

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How to win friends and influence people

2016-01-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development 4 comments

With their current rate case, El Paso Electric Company (EPEC) is sticking it to its El Paso ratepayers so hard

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Deliver us from idiots.

2016-01-27 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Politics 3 comments

Let me get this straight. To highlight his message on immigration, the Pope will visit the actual border (presumably, the

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A hundred years ago . . .

2016-01-27 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

I was in Ciudad Chihuahua, in a bar in a restaurant close to the Hotel Victoria. I was delivering the

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Compra Venta

2016-01-19 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 4 comments

I’m sitting at a booth at a window on the third floor of the Mercado Cuahtémoc, across the street from

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Cable Update

2016-01-12 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown 6 comments

Do you suppose this is the cable that we had to reorder from Germany, because the first one was too

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How to Live Anywhere: Weed Pesto

2016-01-11 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 4 comments

If you live in El Paso, you probably have London Rocket growing in your yard right now. I guarantee that

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Don’t Blame Bob

2016-01-09 elrichiboy Media, Politics Leave a comment

Lots of people blame El Paso Times Editor Bob Moore for a perceived slant to the coverage in our English

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Mildly Interesting

2016-01-07 elrichiboy Juarez, Politics Leave a comment

This is the new sculpture they’ve erected in Juarez. It replaces the sculpture of an angel that some people thought

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Idle Speculation

2015-12-30 elrichiboy City Council, It's All Good, Media, Politics 3 comments

Do you suppose the local heavyweights turned sour on City Manager Tommy Gonzalez when they discovered that he would award

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A Present from Our Friends at City Hall

2015-12-26 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Media, Politics Leave a comment

The agenda for the December 7 Special Meeting of the City Council included this item: Discussion and action that the

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FYI: Christmas Hours

2015-12-23 elrichiboy Go Local Leave a comment

The Kentucky Club closes at 8 on Christmas Eve, but resumes its regular hours for Christmas, 11 in the morning

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Hot Potato

2015-12-21 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Politics 2 comments

You’ve probably heard that political considerations caused the ballpark bonds to be issued later than expected, and the delay cost

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Spoiler Alert

2015-12-20 elrichiboy City Council, Politics Leave a comment

In today’s El Paso Inc., there’s a story about an improper redaction by somebody in the office of our omniscient

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