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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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Jaguars, Almonds, and Mary Jane

2022-04-11 Kent Paterson How to Live in El Paso, Marijuana, Slider Leave a comment

By Kent Paterson Well, it’s finally come to pass. Denizens of the Land of Enchantment – and their neighbors –

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“Politicians Outperformed Hedge Funds in 2021!!”

2022-04-11 Rich Wright Video Leave a comment
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Gary Cooper in “The Naked Edge”

2022-04-10 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Congratulations, Tommy G!

2022-04-09 Rich Wright Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Look at this ad in this week’s El Paso Inc.: Did you see who the ad’s apparent sponsors are? Who

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“The CIA’s Plot to Assassinate Julian Assange”

2022-04-09 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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“Checkpoint”

2022-04-08 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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El Paso’s Class War is Not Happenstance

2022-04-08 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Lina Ortega, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

In their recent opinion piece in the El Paso Times titled El Paso’s Resurgence is not Happenstance, State Representative Lina

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reddit.com/r/ElPaso

2022-04-08 Rich Wright Brand El Paso, How to Live in El Paso, Slider, The Economy 2 comments

Did you know that there’s an El Paso sub-reddit? Here’s a post from reddit.com/r/ElPaso : Is it just me or

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Ahead of the Curve

2022-04-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 2 comments

Here’s an impractical solution to the decline in baseball’s popularity, headlined Baseball is Dying. Government Should Take It Over. From

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We’re Fourth (From the Bottom)

2022-04-07 Rich Wright Slider, The Economy 2 comments

An alert reader just hipped me to this table from DQYDJ.com showing comparative rankings for metro areas in the U.S.

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Retrovision – Nothing’s For Sure but Debt and Taxes

2022-04-06 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Retrovision, Taxes Leave a comment

(This post originally ran on 10 March 2017.) The ever-vigilant Brutus over at El Paso Speak alerted me (and all

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Chris Farlowe – Out of Time

2022-04-06 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Pedro Infante in El Mil Amores

2022-04-05 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame

2022-04-05 Rich Wright ballpark, El Paso Times, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 2 comments

The El Paso Times ran an advertisement for article about the upcoming Chihuahuas baseball season in the print edition today.

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The Naked Emperor

2022-04-05 Rich Wright Deck Park, Liar Liar, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, TxDOT, Widening I-10 3 comments

Recently Lina Ortega and David Jerome penned an opinion piece for the El Paso Times. Here’s some of it: Sixty

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The Big Caper

2022-04-03 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Sydney Philharmonia – Handel’s Hallelujah! Chorus

2022-04-03 elrichiboy Music One comment
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City Settles for $1.2 Million

2022-04-02 Rich Wright Chief Greg Allen, City Management, Dionne Mack, El Paso Police Department, Slider Leave a comment

From ElPasoMatters.com: The El Paso City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit that

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The Last Conquistador

2022-04-02 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The Emerging Front

2022-04-01 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, Commissioners Court, Elections, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider Leave a comment

We are at war. No, I’m not talking about the Ukraine. I’m talking about the undeclared class war that MountainStar

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