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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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You could be next: Non-violent Protesters Charged Under Anti-Terrorism Law

2013-12-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story on FireDogLake.com, two non-violent protesters of the Keystone XL Pipeline were arrested under an anti-terrorism law

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The Medical Examiner Called it Homicide

2013-12-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s Part 2 of the Arizona Republic’s reporting on the public impunity of Border Protection Agents. It covers the killing

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Why Weren’t the Bankers Held Accountable?

2013-12-17 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story by a United States District Judge postulating on why no bank executives were tried for what appears

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Nothing is Beyond the Reach of Our Government Snoops

2013-12-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

. . . and they brag about it. (read the whole story at the Vigilant Citizen.)

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That Must Be Rough, Dear

2013-12-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment
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JFK’s Revolution

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Border Patrol Lacks Accountability

2013-12-15 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a report for the Arizona Republic detailing the investigation and disciplinary policies of the Border Patrol in cases where

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Apocalypse, New Jersey

2013-12-13 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

There’s a piece in the new Rolling Stone by Matt Taibbi, about the Iraquization of Camden, New Jersey. “They let

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Zimmerman’s Chick Prefers the Attention

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

According to this story from the Associated Press, George Zimmerman won’t face charges for domestic violence after his girlfriend decided

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Two Americas by David Simon, the Creator of the Wire

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Via Facebook and Dangerous Minds and the Guardian: That may be the ultimate tragedy of capitalism in our time, that

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A Strategic Plan for Downtown Development

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Economic Development 2 comments

Here’s how you hyper-vitalize downtown El Paso, and develop its reputation as the coolest city in the Southwest: Buy the

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The World is a Hologram

2013-12-11 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This article on Nature.com claims that scientists are closer to proving that the world as we know it is a

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25 Foot Shoulders

2013-12-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I told her there was only one standard for evaluating our relationship. The swamp coolers don’t work when it’s a

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Microsoft: U.S. Gov’t = Hackers

2013-12-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a piece in which computer giant Microsoft likens the United States government to accomplished, dedicated hackers. The problem with

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

2013-12-09 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s an interesting story about a parasitical fungus that takes control of ants and persuades them to self-destruct. Kind of

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Ahead of the curve

2013-12-06 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

It was less than three weeks ago that El Chuqueño advocated a basic minimum income for all Americans, and now

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My TEDx El Paso Talk

2013-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

For your amusement and edification:

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F*ck you, Pig

2013-12-05 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

This new study posits that humans arose as a chimpanzee/pig hybrid. Now it all makes sense.

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Country Justice

2013-12-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a story from LaPolaka from a couple of days ago. It seems that the Villa Ahumada chief of police

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More on Developing Downtown

2013-12-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

I love walkable communities. I’m all for making downtown work. But baseball stadiums and arenas and museums aren’t going to

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