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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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Garden Report

2022-03-31 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 2 comments

I left my chiles outside this winter. Most of them. I put four in our little greenhouse, just in case

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The Ongoing War

2022-03-31 Rich Wright Slider, Uncategorized 4 comments

At last Tuesday’s City Council meeting, City Staff wanted to renege on a promise the City made to El Pasoans

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Circle the Wagons

2022-03-28 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Did I ever mention that the El Paso City Government, the Chamber of Commerce, and MountainStar Sports have declared war

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Trevor Howard in Golden Salamander (1950)

2022-03-27 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Sidney Poitier – Amen

2022-03-27 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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The Dublin Whiskey Flood

2022-03-26 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Cesar Chavez Day at Lincoln Park

2022-03-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment
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Adios, David Jerome

2022-03-25 Rich Wright Chamber of Commerce, City Management, Slider 3 comments

From the El Paso Times: David Jerome, who has been the El Paso Chamber’s chief executive officer for just over four years,

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Capitalism In Action

2022-03-25 elrichiboy Juarez, Law Enforcement, Mexico, Migration, Slider One comment

Walking across the Santa Fe Street bridge in the old days, like pre-pandemic, sometimes you’d have to stop to let

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Friday Short – The OceanMaker

2022-03-25 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Luis Buñuel’s Èl

2022-03-22 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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And the Hits Keep Coming

2022-03-22 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 7 comments

More good news, from ElPasoMatters.com : The Public Service Board voted unanimously Wednesday to ask El Paso City Council to

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City of Dust – Holbrook, Arizona

2022-03-21 elrichiboy City of Dust Leave a comment

Bucket of Blood Street, USA The sun was slowly setting over the Petrified Forest, giant slabs of ancient wood and

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George Bancroft and Fay Wray in Thunderbolt (1929)

2022-03-20 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Pentatonix – Hallelujah

2022-03-20 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Frontline – Putin’s Road to War

2022-03-19 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Arcade Fire – The Lightning I, II

2022-03-18 elrichiboy Music 2 comments
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Next to Last Call for Redistricting

2022-03-16 elrichiboy City Council, Redistricting, Slider One comment

As you probably know, the City of El Paso is in the throes of redrawing district boundaries. The City Charter

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Luis Aguilar and Lucha Villa in “Agarrando Parejo”

2022-03-15 elrichiboy Cine Mexicano Leave a comment
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El Ojo del Chuco

2022-03-15 elrichiboy History, Juarez 2 comments

This isn’t my first blog. If you’d asked me yesterday, I would have said it is, but today I stumbled

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