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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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  • “Prohibition Era Bars in Juarez”

    2025-04-24 elrichiboy

    Local historian and frequent contributor to El Chuqueño Bob Chessey gives a talk about the proliferation of bars and bar owners on Saturday, April 26,

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  • A Border Story You Might Have Missed

    2025-04-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson If you rely on El Paso online media for your news, you might have missed one of the biggest stories in the

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  • About the Deck Park

    2025-04-23 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright You may have noticed that the deck park is still in play, even after funding sources have dried up. Here’s Mayor Renard

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  • Elephant March

    2025-04-22 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright When I was six, my father took me to the circus. My father drank a lot, and drunk or sober he seemed

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  • Sphere and Shakedown in Las Vegas: 60 Years Later the Grateful Dead Family Keeps Truckin’ On

    2025-04-21 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson For the second year in a row, the Good Ship Terrapin Station has landed in Las Vegas, Nevada. The prestigious passengers disembarking

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  • Retrovision: I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

    2025-04-16 elrichiboy

    This post originally appeared on 23 Novemeber, 2021. I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing

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Killer DIY Drone

2012-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This should scare you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jplh7uatr-E

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Can Juarez survive its extreme makeover?

2012-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Calle de la Paz is seven blocks long, two blocks south of Dieciseis de Septiembre in downtown Juarez. It’s western

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Breaking the Taboo

2012-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a good video about drug prohibition, narrated by Morgan Freeman.

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Street robots

2012-12-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For hours every day, the fake-brick sidewalk throbs with a pulse of humanity engaged in the willful act of living.

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Brand Tribalism in El Paso

2012-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

In El Paso, we’re big on brands. We want to belong. We want to feel like we’re a member of

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The Class Cold War

2012-11-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“The important thing to understand now is that while the election is over, the class war isn’t. The same people

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Meanwhile, back at the lovely StageCoach Motel

2012-11-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This article in El Diario says a couple of fugitive sex offenders were arrested at the Stage Coach Motel on

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The voters have spoken.

2012-11-26 elrichiboy Economic Development Leave a comment

The City of El Paso will take on close to billion dollars in new debt over the next fifteen years,

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The Irony of Irony

2012-11-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

“If irony is the ethos of our age — and it is — then the hipster is our archetype of

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Oops. Looks like I got it wrong again.

2012-10-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Option #1 Upon further review, it seems that the City’s Ordinance 017850 authorized the election about the ballpark based on

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The State Law Regarding Public Private Projects

2012-10-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

To tell you the truth, I am getting issue fatigue deciphering all the lies and half-truths that are being promulgated

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The State Law Regarding New Sports Venues

2012-10-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

I spent the afternoon reading the Local Government Code, Title 10, Subtitle C, Chapter 334, “Sports and Community Venues.” It’s

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Baseball is dead

2012-10-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Americans are also losing interest in what was long called the national pastime. Baseball has steadily declined in favor, with

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Lank is At Large and Dangerous

2012-10-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

And so it was that when Claire’s company arrived at four that I was sloshingly hebetated, into the home stretch

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The Golden Life

2012-10-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There’s nothing wrong with the rosy future the ballpark proponents have advanced. The ballpark hasn’t been mired in the inescapable

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Government Serving the Oligarchs

2012-10-01 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The El Paso Times Letter of the Day for October 1, 2012 The surreptitious way in which this baseball stadium/relocated

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Playing ball

2012-09-29 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

According to this story from El Diario, the City of El Paso has a professional real estate agent/consultant on salary

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Monorail!

2012-09-23 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

http://youtu.be/AEZjzsnPhnw

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$20 million?

2012-09-21 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Did MountainStar Sports really pay $20 million for the Tucson Padres? According to this story from Forbes magazine, in 2008

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The future of El Paso

2012-09-14 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Our benevolent overlords the Illuminati Paso del Norte Group have posted on their website their vision for the future of

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