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  • CRRUA in the Whirlwind: The Future of People and Water in Sunland Park-Santa Teresa at the Crossroads

    2025-05-17 Kent Paterson

    by Kent Paterson Like the wind, dust and mist that sting the spring of 2025, stormy developments surround the fundamental question of water and wastewater

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  • The Apartment

    2025-05-14 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright His hands are filthy. He looks at them where they protrude from the frayed cuffs of his dark flannel shirt as though

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  • Blow, Wind, Blow

    2025-05-13 Rich Wright

    From a May 4 post on Gizmodo.com: This year’s drought-exacerbated dusty season is “truly exceptional—one for the record books,” said Thomas Gill, an environmental scientist

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  • “Yes, Your Arrogancy”

    2025-05-12 elrichiboy

    From ElPasoTimes.com: The El Paso City Council this week will take another look at public engagement at meetings after a vote limiting audience speakers to

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  • Lady Liberty

    2025-05-11 Kent Paterson
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  • The New Soccer Stadium

    2025-04-26 Rich Wright

    From Mexico’s national media outlet Milenio.com: Alejandra de la Vega, propietaria de los Bravos de Juárez, ha confirmado uno de los proyectos más ambiciosos en

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  • “Prohibition Era Bars in Juarez”

    2025-04-24 elrichiboy

    Local historian and frequent contributor to El Chuqueño Bob Chessey gives a talk about the proliferation of bars and bar owners on Saturday, April 26,

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  • A Border Story You Might Have Missed

    2025-04-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson If you rely on El Paso online media for your news, you might have missed one of the biggest stories in the

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  • About the Deck Park

    2025-04-23 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright You may have noticed that the deck park is still in play, even after funding sources have dried up. Here’s Mayor Renard

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  • Elephant March

    2025-04-22 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright When I was six, my father took me to the circus. My father drank a lot, and drunk or sober he seemed

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  • Sphere and Shakedown in Las Vegas: 60 Years Later the Grateful Dead Family Keeps Truckin’ On

    2025-04-21 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson For the second year in a row, the Good Ship Terrapin Station has landed in Las Vegas, Nevada. The prestigious passengers disembarking

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  • Retrovision: I Could Tolerate the Deck Park, Maybe

    2025-04-16 elrichiboy

    This post originally appeared on 23 Novemeber, 2021. I could tolerate the deck park, maybe, if the plans didn’t include widening the freeway, and increasing

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Big Fibbers at City Hall

2022-08-04 Rich Wright Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, Claudia Lizette Rodriguez, Isabel Salcido, Liar Liar, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

In a recent guest column at ElPasoTimes.com, Representatives Hernandez, Salcido, and Rodriguez wrote the following: The city of El Paso

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More Harder Times

2022-08-04 elrichiboy El Paso Times, Media, Slider One comment

From USAToday.com: Gannett, owner of USA TODAY and local news operations in 45 states, [including the El Paso Times] reported

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The Woman in the Hall

2022-07-31 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Johnny Cash – “I Saw the Light”

2022-07-31 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Harvest of the Poor: The Illegal Kidney Market

2022-07-30 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Defending the Big River

2022-07-28 Kent Paterson El Paso Water, Slider, The Environment 2 comments

by Kent Paterson Every river searches for the seaEvery life runs its own destinyCanyons white and wild stretches calm and

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Joni Mitchell – “Both Sides Now”

2022-07-26 elrichiboy Music One comment
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Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in “Arch of Triumph”

2022-07-24 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Il Divo – “Amazing Grace”

2022-07-24 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Rich Wright for District 8 Campaign Launch Party

2022-07-23 elrichiboy Political Advertisement 10 comments

I am having the official Rich Wright for District 8 campaign launch party next Thursday, July 28, at Hope &

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“The Playboy King of Thailand”

2022-07-23 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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$315,394.54 in Campaign Donations

2022-07-22 elrichiboy Elections, Politics Leave a comment

That’s how much Joe Pickett has in his campaign coffer for his run against incumbent Isabel Salcido for her seat

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Hermanos Gutiérrez – “El Bueno y El Malo”

2022-07-20 elrichiboy Music 2 comments

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“The Turning Point”

2022-07-17 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Mercy Worship – Psalm 47 (Shout to God)

2022-07-17 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“Yemen’s Dirty War”

2022-07-16 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Why Your Taxes Are So High

2022-07-15 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Urban Planning 3 comments

Because the City won’t stop spending money. While we’re catching our breath (this is, after all, an election year) the

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“Explaining the Pandemic to my Past Self Part 2”

2022-07-15 elrichiboy Explaining the Pandemic, Video Leave a comment
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“Spare Key”

2022-07-15 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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You Know Who Knows Coups

2022-07-13 elrichiboy National Policy One comment

From Reuters.com: John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said

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