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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”

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  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

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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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  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

    2025-10-20 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright This article, or something very much like it, originally appeared on NewspaperTree.com in early May, 2008. There’s this brain drain argument that’s

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  • “The Other Woman”

    2025-10-19 elrichiboy
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  • “The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

    2025-10-18 elrichiboy

    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

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

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  • Ninja Convention

    2025-10-16 Rich Wright

    The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade on Montana last night. Kudos

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  • “Trump and the FBI”

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La Bouche Manouche featuring Irene Serra

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You Can Help!

2022-08-29 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Slider Leave a comment

I’ll tell you the truth. It’s hard for me to ask for help. But this time, I need your help

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How Did It Get So Bad So Quick?

2022-08-28 Rich Wright City Management, Economic Development, Slider, Strategic Plan, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

In 2012, our property tax rates was 66 cents per $100 of valuation. For FY2023, the property tax rate is

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“Man Hunt”

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“4Chan VS Scientology”

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Retrovision – TEDx El Paso: A City Reimagined

2022-08-23 Rich Wright ballpark, City Management, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Retrovision, Slider, Strategic Plan, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

This post originally appeared on 04 March 2022. Saturday, March 5 (tomorrow, or today, or last week, depending on when

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Tuba Skinny – “Jubilee Stomp”

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Ray Milland in “The Thief”

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Celtic Worship – “Come Thou Fount”

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“The Mystery of the Vampire Skeletons Buried in Ireland”

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About Rich Wright

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Even if you don’t know me, we may have met. District 8 is a small town, especially now that it’s

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“Holy Moses”

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The City of Dust Books are Back!

2022-08-17 elrichiboy City of Dust Leave a comment

BACK IN STOCK! The remainder of the reprint of “Abandoned New Mexico: Ghost Towns, Endangered Architecture, and Hidden History” has

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The Petition to Change Elections

2022-08-17 elrichiboy City Council, Elections, Politics, Slider One comment

From Adam Powell at ElPasoTimes.com: Elections in El Paso could look much different if El Pasoans for Fair Elections is

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Tin Tan in “Simbad El Mareado”

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The Petition

2022-08-14 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, University Medical Center Leave a comment

You’ve probably heard about the petition circulating in opposition to the issuance of Certificates of Obligation for expansion of the

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Gregory Peck in “The Gunfighter”

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“Larceny”

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“The Fight for Water – Is Water the New Gold?”

2022-08-13 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary One comment
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“The House on the Cliff”

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