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  • Fritz Lang’s “House by the River”

    2026-01-18 elrichiboy
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  • “The Gilded Age”

    2026-01-17 elrichiboy
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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 Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

2025-10-18 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment

Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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Who’s the New Guy?

2025-10-17 Rich Wright Law Enforcement, Slider, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing

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Ninja Convention

2025-10-16 Rich Wright El Paso, Slider, Visit El Paso One comment

The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade

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“Dressed to Kill”

2025-10-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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“Trump and the FBI”

2025-10-11 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises

2025-10-07 Kent Paterson Slider, The Environment, Water 2 comments

By Kent Paterson Amid the landscape of yucca and creosote plants, artificial intelligence-driven Project Stargate took shape this week just a

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Diminishing El Paso

2025-10-06 Rich Wright Economic Development, population, Slider, Urban Planning Leave a comment

Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue

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“Highway Dragnet”

2025-10-05 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The 1916 [Irish] Rising of Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”

2025-10-04 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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Ouch!

2025-10-03 Rich Wright El Paso Times, Media, Slider One comment

The El Paso Times delivered its mandated circulation report on page 5A of Thursday’s dead tree edition, and it’s not

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Juarez’ 2025 Bullfighting Season

2025-10-01 Rich Wright Culture, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider One comment

While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at

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The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown

2025-09-30 Rich Wright Deck Park, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider 7 comments

Downtown El Paso is already barely accessible. What effect will 5 years of freeway and deck park construction have on

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“Park Plaza 605”

2025-09-28 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Social Engineering Chuco-Style

2025-09-26 Rich Wright City Management, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

I live in a neighborhood I call Barrio Heights. Barrio Heights is below Rim Road, close to El Paso High.

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Community First Coalition Forum on Affordable Housing

2025-09-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

The Community First Coalition is hosting a forum on the housing challenges facing the local community. Everybody needs housing, and

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Book Launch: “Juarez | Tales from a Misunderstood City”

2025-09-24 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider, Uncategorized Leave a comment
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You and the Juarez Walking Tour

2025-09-22 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Juarez Walking Tour, Slider 2 comments

I’ve been offering Juarez Walking Tours to anyone willing to pay my meager fee for more than 10 years. Over

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“The Pretender”

2025-09-21 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Europe in the Wake of the Fall of Rome”

2025-09-20 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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Paul Foster is Selling Land in his Campo del Sol Development

2025-09-19 Rich Wright City Council, El Paso Water, Public Service Board, Slider, Water, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

From KVIA.com: El Paso City Council unanimously approved an amendment to a 2020 incentives agreement to allow for the sale

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