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  • Again, Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-11-23 elrichiboy

    I’m probably late to the party with this. Won’t AI generated “people” start infiltrating your social media feed? Come on, AI is going to be

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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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Inflation, Chucostyle

2024-02-14 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Did you get a gas bill this month? Was it about twice as high as last month’s? Ouch. Have you

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“The Brave Bulls”

2024-02-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment
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“All the King’s Men”

2024-02-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

From YouTube: “In a bravura performance, Broderick Crawford won the 1949 Academy Award for Best Actor with his stunning portrayal

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Diesel Exhaust is Toxic

2024-02-01 Rich Wright Bridge of the Americas, City Council, Slider 6 comments

From TheEngineer.co.UK: But even when governments were promoting diesel cars, we knew there were issues with toxic emissions (those immediately

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What’s Wrong With El Paso

2024-02-01 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Elections, Slider 6 comments

That’s not a question. Or maybe it is. Look at this story in the El Paso Times: For Pete Faraone,

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Dumpster du Jour

2024-01-30 Rich Wright Dumpsters Leave a comment

This dumpster is on Cliff, between Ochoa and Florence. El Paso Disposal has been better lately. They’ve been emptying the

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Pollution at the Bridge of the Americas

2024-01-29 Rich Wright Bridge of the Americas, International Relations, Mexico, Slider, Veronica Escobar 3 comments

Commercial traffic on the Bridge of the Americas is contributing a lot of pollution to the surrounding neighborhood, and there’s

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Alfred Hitchcock’s “Sabotage”

2024-01-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Crown to Dust – Downfall of America’s Largest Bank”

2024-01-27 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Planning for a Static State

2024-01-27 Rich Wright Arrogance, City Council, City Management, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin, Cost of Living, Slider, Urban Planning 6 comments

According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, in 2012, El Paso’s population was 674,588. In 2022, our population was 677,456. Since

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Lon Chaney, Jr. in “The Big Chase”

2024-01-21 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The UFO Conclusion”

2024-01-20 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“The Pay Off”

2024-01-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Who Pays?”

2024-01-11 elrichiboy Taxes Leave a comment

Here’s an analysis of the progressivity and regressivity of tax systems in various states, i.e., who pays a greater proportion

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One of the Five Best Tequilas

2024-01-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Culture, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

From Forbes.com: To help simplify things, we turned to the top international spirit competitions to help narrow down the field

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Downtown Dumpsters

2024-01-10 elrichiboy Dumpsters Leave a comment

These overflowing dumpsters were on the street under the Plaza Hotel parking lot. If it can happen to Paul Foster,

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Bringing Home the Bacon

2024-01-10 Rich Wright Climate Change, Nicole Alderette-Ferrini, Slider, Veronica Escobar 3 comments

With Representative Veronica Escobar, El Paso has something El Paso hasn’t had before: a Congressperson who is landing her district

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BOTA Call to Action

2024-01-08 Jerry Kurtyka Bridge of the Americas, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

by Jerry Kurtyka BOTA NEPA SCOPING PUBLIC MEETING On Wednesday December 12th the General Services Administration (GSA) hosted a public

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Proposition C

2024-01-04 Rich Wright Arrogance, City Council, City Management, Climate Change, Col. (Ret.) Cary Westin, Nicole Alderette-Ferrini, Opportunity Costs, Slider 2 comments

From CBS4Local.com: El Paso’s City Council approved the agenda item to pay over a million dollars to form a Climate

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“Night Editor”

2023-12-31 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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