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  • “Deadfall”

    2025-11-02 elrichiboy
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  • Andres Muro Art Opening Tonight at Traffick Artspace

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    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”

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  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

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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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  • Retrovision: El Paso Cool and the Brain Drain

    2025-10-20 Rich Wright

    by Rich Wright This article, or something very much like it, originally appeared on NewspaperTree.com in early May, 2008. There’s this brain drain argument that’s

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  • “The Other Woman”

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  • “The Strangest Story in American History | OPUNTIA”

    2025-10-18 elrichiboy

    Thanks to The Border Chronicle for hipping me to this movie.

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  • Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-10-17 Rich Wright

    Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing organizations. In response to the

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  • Ninja Convention

    2025-10-16 Rich Wright

    The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade on Montana last night. Kudos

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  • “Trump and the FBI”

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Sunday Matinee – The Tijuana Story

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Blues Counsel with Phil Keaggy – The River is Rising

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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

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Friday Short – Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times

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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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The Onion – Has Halloween Become Overcommercialized?

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How Much Would the “Arena” Cost today?

2021-10-25 Rich Wright Arena Highlights, City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 7 comments

Tomorrow, City Council will vote on whether or not to tell City Manager Tommy Gonzalez to come up with a

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Sunday Matinee – Nazi Agent

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Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra – Lord Don’t Forsake Me

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Saturday Matinee – The Challenges of Income Inequality

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The 9.9% vs. Housing for the Rest of Us

2021-10-23 elrichiboy Inequality, Welcome to Monday 2 comments

Here’s another take on housing and social mobility from the guy who wrote that book about the 9.9 percent. From

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El Paso is a Third World Country

2021-10-22 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Public Health, Slider, The Environment 4 comments

Since August 15, El Paso has been pouring raw sewage into the Rio Grande. From BorderReport.com: Between 3 million and

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Friday Short – Swing for the Fences

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Friday Short – Sparks!

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Vote No on Prop 2

2021-10-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs, TxDOT 6 comments

Did you know that blight was a condition to creating a Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone in Texas? From the Texas

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Grandpa’s Cough Medicine – The Murder Chord

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PBS: La Frontera with Pati Jinich – Miles from Nowhere

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