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  • Red Elvises at Sunset Parlor this Tuesday

    2025-11-15 elrichiboy

    Your favorite band brings it back to El Paso this Tuesday, at the Sunset Parlor.

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  • “Powering AI: The Environmental Impacts of Borderland Data Centers”

    2025-11-17 elrichiboy

    “[NMELC] Staff Attorney, Kacey Hovden, along with our clients, has been invited as a guest speaker at a University of Texas El Paso panel, Powering AI: The Environmental

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  • “Harper”

    2025-11-16 elrichiboy
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  • Thank the Taxpayers

    2025-11-10 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story at ElPasoTimes.com titled State of the County address touts growth through bonds in address. “On time and on budget” was the rallying

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  • Can’t We Just Wait?

    2025-11-09 Rich Wright

    Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people who are okay with the

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  • “The Sniper”

    2025-11-09 elrichiboy
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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

    2025-11-01 elrichiboy

    With music by David Romo.

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  • Bullfight Tonight!

    2025-10-31 Rich Wright

    The 2025 bullfighting season carries on tonight with another spectacle at the Aberto Balderas Bullring in downtown Juarez. Tonight’s headliner is El Zapata. From LaPrensa.org,

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  • Gregory Peck in “The Case of the Enchanted Prisoner”

    2025-10-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

    2025-10-25 elrichiboy
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  • “EL PASO, WHERE SUNSHINE SPENDS THE WINTER”

    2025-10-23 Bob Chessey

    by Bob Chessey One hundred years ago, before El Paso simply advertised and referred to itself as the “Sun City,” the municipality boasted the slogan,

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Where you stand and where you sit

2015-05-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I went to a birthday party for the daughter of a friend of mine last week. I started talking to

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How To Live in El Paso: Valentina Hot Sauce

2015-05-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Am I right? I mean, it’s not the same as that special salsa you make, with the grilled and raw

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Hey, we’re on Twitter!

2015-05-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Whatever that is. @elchuqueno Did I do that right?

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The El Paso Times vs. the PSB

2015-05-20 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times Editorial Board came out against the Public Service Board’s new franchise fee, now that the PSB

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Did you just hear something . . .

2015-05-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

hit the fan? No, not yet? Just you wait.

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Idle Speculation

2015-05-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In this story in this week’s El Paso Inc., (the one about River Oaks putting its downtown properties up for

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A Big Day in Whoville

2015-05-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For those of you who were wondering what to celebrate, or maybe what you were already celebrating.

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Maybe we’re the stupid ones.

2015-05-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Hell, if going broke is inevitable, we might as well spend our last paycheck on fancy doodads that can’t get

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We get the government we deserve.

2015-05-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

The El Paso Times Editorial Board weighed in on the significance of the recent election results. El Paso’s voters sent

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Legal Pot in Texas?

2015-05-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Some of my homies have been telling me that legal is right around the corner. From the Houston Chronicle Online:

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El Paso vs. Art

2015-05-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized 6 comments

Maybe you’ve heard the chatter on your social media accounts about the City eighty-sixing Margarita Cabrera’s sculpture from the roundabout

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We Deserve Better

2015-05-08 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments

This story in the Sun Shopper, er, I mean the El Paso Times, by ace reporter Aaron Martinez leaves a

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Downtown Development? Thank Jim Scherr

2015-05-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

The talk around the water cooler is that the owners of those new boutique hotels were motivated by the success

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The Unintended Consequences of Branding

2015-05-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Do you remember when Sun Metro used to be called Sun City Area Transit? They had to change it because

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Armed Home Invaders Kill 22 Year Old Man in Front of His Mother

2015-05-04 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Can you imagine if the victims had their own Public Information Officer, or spokesperson, who was pampered by a lap-dog

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Limited Time Offer

2015-05-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized 4 comments

I know downtown Juarez like a sailor knows the sea. This isn’t some rowdy, drunken, staggering frat fest. At least,

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Wouldn’t it be cool if any of this story were true?

2015-05-02 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from respected internet portal Overpasses For America detailing how a bunch of Minutemen detained two men with

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Just relax.

2015-05-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Maybe you heard about the burglary suspect who was shot by El Paso Police in his home, in front of

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Mr. Rogers neighborhood, or equivalent

2015-05-01 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 4 comments

I recommend you get a house in an old neighborhood. Not just a house in an old neighborhood. A house

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Our Secret: Code

2015-04-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized 3 comments

If El Paso really wanted to be on the leading edge in the jobs market, the schools would teach coding.

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