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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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Blame the New Guy

2015-07-26 elrichiboy It's All Good, Politics One comment

The El Paso Times knows who’s responsible for the poor paperwork that resulted in the City not receiving $20 million

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Stop and Frisk in Juarez

2015-07-26 elrichiboy Juarez Leave a comment

According to this story out of Juarez, the local police there have stepped up the Stop and Frisk approach to

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An Open Letter to Peter Svarzbien

2015-07-25 elrichiboy Politics 3 comments

Peter, (May I call you Peter? I feel that with this kind of letter, it’s better to be chummy.) Politics.

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Surviving the Police

2015-07-24 elrichiboy Law Enforcement Leave a comment

Well, it’s the weekend, and that means you are at a higher risk of engaging law enforcement. So watch this.

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The World is Round

2015-07-24 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 25 comments

What I’m about to suggest is heresy. What if downtown El Paso will never be a high-end destination? That’s the

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El Paso: No. 1 Again!

2015-07-23 elrichiboy Economic Development 2 comments

El Paso is getting national recognition again, this time in a Bloomberg survey of the Top Twenty Cities Americans are

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Peter Svarzbien = Vendido

2015-07-22 elrichiboy Downtown Leave a comment

I lifted this from the El Paso County Historical Society’s Facebook page. I’m reprinting it without their permission. I don’t

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Hysterical versus Historical

2015-07-22 elrichiboy Downtown One comment

I’ve been working on a post about City Council refusing a state grant for an historical survey of downtown, but

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Juarez Rumors

2015-07-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez Leave a comment

The word on the street (literally, a taxista told me at the corner of Juarez and Begonias) is that the

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Netflix Narcos Trailer

2015-07-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Drugs and violence are always a big draw. Here’s the trailer for Netflix’s new series Narcos, featuring the adventures of

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“Trust me.”

2015-07-11 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development Leave a comment

How about this incredible decision by the Downtown Management District to refuse grant money from the Texas Historical Commission for

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Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand

2015-07-10 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand is often cited by the robber barons as justification for trickle-down economics and the disproportionate distribution

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El Paso Times’ Coverage of Irene Ramirez’ Retirement

2015-07-08 elrichiboy Media, Politics One comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso’s English language daily today concerning the retirement of City Engineer Irene

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No, really.

2015-07-08 elrichiboy Economic Development Leave a comment

You must think I’m an unappreciative asshole. Some (many) people do. You know, the Borderplex Alliance is financed 100% by

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How to Live in El Paso: The Pink Store

2015-07-07 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

How long since you’ve been to the Pink Store in Palomas? If you’ve just moved to El Paso (Ha! Nobody’s

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Have we hit the bottom?

2015-07-06 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics 2 comments

According to the El Paso Inc.’s Book of Lists, eleven of the fourteen largest employers in El Paso feed at

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How to Live in El Paso: Korean Food

2015-07-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

Do you ever go to those Korean restaurants? You should. Next to white people, Koreans are El Paso’s second largest

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How are we doing?

2015-07-03 elrichiboy Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

A couple of tradesmen I know, top-notch remodel types, are hurting for work. Like if you call them, they’re at

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Our Excellent Adventure

2015-06-30 elrichiboy Economic Development, Uncategorized 5 comments

Those cats at the Borderplex Alliance suggest our region become known for Quality. Where should we start? Maybe we should

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Hooray for the Borderplex Alliance

2015-06-29 elrichiboy Economic Development, Uncategorized Leave a comment

In this piece in the El Paso Inc., titled Carruthers: Why the region needs to work together former New Mexico

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