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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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The City of Dust Web Store is Now Open!

2021-11-09 elrichiboy City of Dust 2 comments

Frequent contributor John Mulhouse has opened a City of Dust webstore. There, you can order Mr. Mulhouse’s books, as well

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What Do You Want From City Government?

2021-11-09 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 6 comments

The types at City Hall think City Government should be a growth industry. So do the people that benefit from

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Sunday Matinee – Hollywood Story

2021-11-07 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Retrovision: Chime the Eff Up

2021-11-07 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, Isabel Salcido, Laura Cruz-Acosta, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 12 July 2021. Did you take the City of El Paso’s budget survey? It was

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Oliver Schnyder – J. S. Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

2021-11-07 elrichiboy Uncategorized 5 comments
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City Spin

2021-11-06 elrichiboy City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 5 comments

ElPasoMatters.com has A Q&A with Joe Pickett on his upcoming run for City Council, in which City City spokesperson Laura

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Saturday Matinee – The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

2021-11-06 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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What’s Next? After Voters Reject Albuquerque Soccer Stadium Bond

2021-11-05 elrichiboy MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes, The Trench 3 comments

From Albuquerque’s channel 13, KRQE.com: After voters soundly rejected the idea of a publicly financed soccer stadium, New Mexico United

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The Worms Turn

2021-11-05 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, Gensler, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Did you see this item from Monday’s City Council Work Session agenda? Discussion and action on the development of cost

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Asia’s El Chapo

2021-11-04 elrichiboy Crime, Drugs, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a story from Toronto Life that sheds some light on Mexico’s criminal operations. Triads or the mafia or biker

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Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado – Same Old Lies

2021-11-03 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Redistricting Update – City Council Cheats Again

2021-11-02 elrichiboy City Council, Redistricting, Slider 2 comments

KTSM tells us that the City is inviting the public to attend, either virtually or in person, the meetings of

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Sunday Matinee – The Tijuana Story

2021-10-31 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Blues Counsel with Phil Keaggy – The River is Rising

2021-10-31 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Death By a Thousand Cuts

2021-10-30 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Slider, Taxes, University Medical Center 6 comments

The word on the street is that University Medical Center will open a new hospital on the east side. The

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Saturday Matinee – Murder Incorporated: Contract Killers for the American Mafia

2021-10-30 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times

2021-10-29 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Blame It On the Firemen

2021-10-28 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Law Enforcement, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

And the cops. That’s what other cities have done when their fiscal profligacy has run their finances into a ditch.

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Scorched Earth

2021-10-27 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, Cassandra Hernandez, Cissy Lizarraga, City Council, Gensler, Henry Rivera, Isabel Salcido, Peter Svarzbein, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

Way back in 2014, when I was trying to figure out the twisted logic of the City’s plans, I wrote

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Who Will Isabel Salcido Represent?

2021-10-26 elrichiboy City Council, Elections, Isabel Salcido, Politics, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 5 comments

If she’s re-elected? This notification appeared in today’s City Council meeting agenda: For notation pursuant to Section 2.92.080 of the

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