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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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  • The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises

    2025-10-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Amid the landscape of yucca and creosote plants, artificial intelligence-driven Project Stargate took shape this week just a tad up the road from

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  • Diminishing El Paso

    2025-10-06 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue to see little to moderate

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  • “Highway Dragnet”

    2025-10-05 elrichiboy
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  • “The 1916 [Irish] Rising of Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”

    2025-10-04 elrichiboy
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  • Ouch!

    2025-10-03 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times delivered its mandated circulation report on page 5A of Thursday’s dead tree edition, and it’s not pretty. On July 25, 2025,

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  • Juarez’ 2025 Bullfighting Season

    2025-10-01 Rich Wright

    While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at 8pm at the Alberto Balderas

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  • The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown

    2025-09-30 Rich Wright

    Downtown El Paso is already barely accessible. What effect will 5 years of freeway and deck park construction have on it? All those businesses who

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  • “Park Plaza 605”

    2025-09-28 elrichiboy
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  • Social Engineering Chuco-Style

    2025-09-26 Rich Wright

    I live in a neighborhood I call Barrio Heights. Barrio Heights is below Rim Road, close to El Paso High. The houses in Barrio Heights

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  • Community First Coalition Forum on Affordable Housing

    2025-09-25 elrichiboy

    The Community First Coalition is hosting a forum on the housing challenges facing the local community. Everybody needs housing, and in the current climate, we

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  • Book Launch: “Juarez | Tales from a Misunderstood City”

    2025-09-24 elrichiboy
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Friday Short – Blackbird

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Sting – Russians

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“Imagine an El Paso Where Community Comes First”

2022-02-24 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Slider 4 comments

The Community First Coalition has come up with a pretty slick presentation of their goals and ideals. El Chuqueño is

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Be Careful What You Wish For

2022-02-24 Rich Wright Economic Development, Urban Planning One comment

Here’s a story from the New York Times headlined “The Next Affordable City Is Already Too Expensive.” The names are

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The Premieres – Farmer John

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Wealth in Different Terms

2022-02-23 Rich Wright Economic Development, Urban Planning 5 comments

From TheAtlantic.com: Money and markets have been around for thousands of years. Yet as central as currency has been to

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Luis Aguilar and Javier Solis in Los tres salvajes

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“The Lure of the Rio Grande Valley” – 1927

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From the Texas Archive of the Moving Image.

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El Paso is at War

2022-02-21 Rich Wright Cesar Blanco, Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

It’s a class war. The City of El Paso, and the Chamber of Commerce, and MountainStar Sports Group, have declared

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Paulette Goddard in The Unholy Four

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FRONTLINE – Poor Kids

2022-02-19 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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What’s Best for El Paso

2022-02-19 Rich Wright Cesar Blanco, Deck Park, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, The Trench, TxDOT, Veronica Escobar, Widening I-10 6 comments

Building the Borderland Expressway makes more sense for El Paso than widening the freeway downtown. If we removed the through

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Cerebrus – Tekilla

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Talking Heads – Life During Wartime

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Friday Short – Gill

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Why Is It So Hard to File Your Income Tax?

2022-02-16 elrichiboy Taxes Leave a comment

From TheConversation.com: In 1985, President Ronald Reagan promised a “return-free” tax system in which half of all Americans would never

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Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime

2022-02-14 elrichiboy Music One comment
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Murder Is My Beat

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Hesperion XXI – Stella Splendens

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Frontline – Boeing’s Fatal Flaw

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