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  • An “Unprecedented” Event

    2026-01-13 Rich Wright

    This from ElPasoTimes.com: It could be until mid-week when a boil water notice is lifted and water service is fully returned to normal after a

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  • The Primary Elections

    2026-01-12 Rich Wright

    I always vote. Every election. School boards. State judges. Railroad Commissioner. I have even gone to the fire station to make no selection in every

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  • “Between Midnight and Dawn”

    2026-01-11 elrichiboy
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  • “This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”

    2026-01-03 elrichiboy
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  • Shopping South El Paso Street

    2025-12-22 Rich Wright

    South El Paso Street is El Paso’s most vibrant street. In the daytime, South El Paso Street is what our city planners aspire to. Walkable,

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  • “Fire Maidens from Outer Space”

    2025-12-21 elrichiboy
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  • “White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”

    2025-12-20 elrichiboy
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  • Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact

    2025-12-17 Rich Wright

    Here’s another article critical about Project Jupiter. This critique is environmental. From Truthout.org: At the very Southeastern tip of New Mexico bordering Texas and Mexico,

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  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”

    2025-12-14 elrichiboy
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  • “Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”

    2025-12-13 elrichiboy
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  • The New York Times on Project Jupiter

    2025-12-11 elrichiboy

    NYTimes.com did a story about Project Jupiter Stargate Project Miner, the mega data center that is to built out there by Santa Teresa. Mostly the

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  • The Santa Teresa Data Center: On Pollutants, Permits and Project Alphabet Soup

    2025-12-06 Kent Paterson

    Text and Photos by Kent Paterson Since last summer, the hyperscale AI data center under construction in Santa Teresa has been promoted under different names

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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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Dumpster Du Jour

2023-12-26 elrichiboy Dumpsters Leave a comment

The City doesn’t care.

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“The Unseen”

2023-12-24 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

A classic voiceover murder mystery with a screenplay partially written by Raymond Chandler.

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