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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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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”

2022-08-16 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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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”

2022-08-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Larceny”

2022-08-14 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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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”

2022-08-12 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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A New Advertiser

2022-08-11 Rich Wright ballpark, Slider 2 comments

Good news, everybody. The ballpark has a new advertiser. That should help offset some of the expense that the City

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Do they have a long term plan?

2022-08-11 Rich Wright Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Urban Planning One comment

I mean the richest people in El Paso. The people who got us into this mess. Do they have a

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Roger Corman’s “Swamp Women”

2022-08-10 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment
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The Border Wager: Santa Teresa’s Pot of Gold

2022-08-10 Kent Paterson Immigration, International Relations, Juarez, Mexico, Slider 4 comments

By Kent Paterson In the annals of border history, U.S.-Mexico relations and global commerce, Ciudad Juárez has often played a

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“El Amor No Es Ciego”

2022-08-09 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano, Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Traffic Studies

2022-08-09 Rich Wright Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 Leave a comment

“It’s the most congested part of the freeway,” they say. I took that picture up there this morning (Tuesday, August

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Big Fibbers at City Hall Redux

2022-08-08 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

Somehow I missed the point of City Manager Tommy Gonzalez’ press release about the new budget. When Tommy Gonzalez was

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“The Dark Past”

2022-08-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Can I Give You a Yard Sign?

2022-08-06 elrichiboy Political Advertisement, Slider 4 comments

Do you live in, or near, District 8? Do you have a business in District 8? (The district boundaries recently

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“The Reality of Truth”

2022-08-06 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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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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