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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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Earth, Wind & Fire – September

2023-09-21 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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City of El Paso Strategic Communications Director LAURA CRUZ-ACOSTA BARS MEDIA FROM INTERVIEWING CANDIDATES FOR POLICE CHIEF

2023-09-19 Max Grossman City Management, El Paso Police Department, Laura Cruz-Acosta, Slider One comment

by Max Grossman Those in our media who have had contact with the City’s Director of Strategic Communications, Laura Cruz-Acosta,

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Bait and Switch

2023-09-19 Rich Wright Bridge of the Americas, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Veronica Escobar 3 comments

by Rich Wright From KTSM.com: The federal government plans to spend up to $700 million on an expansion of the

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TOTAL DEBT OF OUR FIVE TAXING ENTITIES EXCEEDS $5.1 BILLION!

2023-09-19 Max Grossman City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Debt, EPISD, Slider, Taxes One comment

by Max Grossman Our property tax consists of the combined levies of five local taxing entities. If you live within the

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John Ford’s “They Were Expendable” with Robert Montgomery and John Wayne

2023-09-17 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Us and Them

2023-09-12 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Opportunity Costs, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

The problem with giving our “public servants” big salaries is that it changes who they are and who they serve.

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COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR ATTACKS NON-PARTISAN PETITION

2023-09-11 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, Corruption, Gassandrgate, Slider 6 comments

by Max Grossman Michael Apodaca, Chair of the El Paso County Democratic Party, issued a press release today attacking the

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Gary Cooper and David Niven in “The Real Glory”

2023-09-10 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Orwell – A Warning to Mankind”

2023-09-09 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Cartels at the Border

2023-09-08 Rich Wright Corruption, Law Enforcement, Mexico, Slider 5 comments

Here’s an enlightening article about corruption at the border from the author of El Narco: Since the Department of Homeland

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“The Great Flamarion”

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The Temptations – Papa Was a Rolling Stone

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“Iraq’s True Story”

2023-09-02 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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COUNTY VOTES 4-1 TO INCREASE PROPERTY TAX

2023-08-28 Max Grossman Commissioners Court, Slider, Taxes 3 comments

by Max Grossman Today the County Commissioners Court voted 4-1 to increase the County property tax rate to $0.458889 per

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What Do Our County Commissioners Do For Us Anyway?

2023-08-28 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Ricardo Samaniego One comment

For that matter, what all do they do? Sure, the county runs the courts (some of them) and the jail.

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“The Illusion of Democracy: Who Really Controls Our Lives”

2023-08-26 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Rep. Cassandra Hernandez’ Letter of Reprimand Upheld by City’s Ethics Commission

2023-08-24 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, Corruption, Gassandrgate, Slider 3 comments

by Rich Wright From ElPasoTimes.com: The Ethics Review Commission voted unanimously to reject a motion from El Paso city Rep.

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COUNTY VOTES FOR 16% SALARY INCREASE FOR COMMISSIONERS, UP 113% SINCE 2016

2023-08-24 Max Grossman Commissioners Court, Slider, Taxes One comment

by Max Grossman Our County Commissioners Court consists of four Commissioners and a County Judge. In 2016, our four County

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HERNANDEZ’S HUSBAND FILED BAR COMPLAINT AGAINST ETHICS COMMISSION CHAIR!

2023-08-22 Max Grossman Cassandra Hernandez, Gassandrgate, Slider 3 comments

by Max Grossman Adam Powell of the El Paso Times just published a report revealing that Jeremy Jordan, the husband

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“The Big Caper”

2023-08-20 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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