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  • An “Unprecedented” Event

    2026-01-13 Rich Wright

    This from ElPasoTimes.com: It could be until mid-week when a boil water notice is lifted and water service is fully returned to normal after a

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  • The Primary Elections

    2026-01-12 Rich Wright

    I always vote. Every election. School boards. State judges. Railroad Commissioner. I have even gone to the fire station to make no selection in every

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  • “Between Midnight and Dawn”

    2026-01-11 elrichiboy
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  • “This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”

    2026-01-03 elrichiboy
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  • Shopping South El Paso Street

    2025-12-22 Rich Wright

    South El Paso Street is El Paso’s most vibrant street. In the daytime, South El Paso Street is what our city planners aspire to. Walkable,

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  • “Fire Maidens from Outer Space”

    2025-12-21 elrichiboy
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  • “White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”

    2025-12-20 elrichiboy
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  • Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact

    2025-12-17 Rich Wright

    Here’s another article critical about Project Jupiter. This critique is environmental. From Truthout.org: At the very Southeastern tip of New Mexico bordering Texas and Mexico,

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  • Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”

    2025-12-14 elrichiboy
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  • “Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”

    2025-12-13 elrichiboy
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  • The New York Times on Project Jupiter

    2025-12-11 elrichiboy

    NYTimes.com did a story about Project Jupiter Stargate Project Miner, the mega data center that is to built out there by Santa Teresa. Mostly the

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  • The Santa Teresa Data Center: On Pollutants, Permits and Project Alphabet Soup

    2025-12-06 Kent Paterson

    Text and Photos by Kent Paterson Since last summer, the hyperscale AI data center under construction in Santa Teresa has been promoted under different names

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Drive By Truckers – Gravity’s Gone

2021-08-10 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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“We Must Not Go Back to Normal”

2021-08-09 elrichiboy Economics, Inequality, Perspectives Leave a comment
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Sunday Matinee – Suddenly

2021-08-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Sturgill Simpson – All Around You

2021-08-08 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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David Cross – Why American Sucks at Everything

2021-08-07 elrichiboy Video 3 comments
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Saturday Matinee – Ruby Ridge

2021-08-07 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Wee Willie Walker & The Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra – Real Good Lie

2021-08-01 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Sunday Matinee – The Big Sleep

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Zach Williams with Dolly Parton – There was Jesus

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Saturday Matinee – The Meth Epidemic

2021-07-31 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out

2021-07-31 elrichiboy Music One comment
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Friday Short – The Shaman

2021-07-30 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Borderland Expressway

2021-07-28 elrichiboy Cesar Blanco, Lina Ortega, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The Trench, TxDOT, Urban Planning 10 comments

Frequent flyer John G. Dungan made this comment on the post Your Representatives in Austin: Frankly, at this juncture, it

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The City of El Paso is Chueco

2021-07-27 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Coronavirus, Corruption, Ethics, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

From the El Paso Times: The El Paso City Council voted unanimously to accept a recommendation to reallocate $15 million in federal funding for

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Temptations/Black Sabbath Mashup

2021-07-27 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Your Representatives in Austin

2021-07-26 elrichiboy Cesar Blanco, Chamber of Commerce, Lina Ortega, Slider, Texas State Government, The Trench 5 comments

Now you know who your friends are. Or at least who your friends aren’t. From the El Paso Chamber of

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My TEDx Talk

2021-07-26 elrichiboy Slider, TEDx Leave a comment

In 2013, a friend of mine asked me to talk about Juarez at TEDx El Paso. I probably would have

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Sunday Matinee – I Became a Criminal

2021-07-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Jamie Wilson – Ain’t No Grave

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Saturday Matinee – How America Bankrupted Its Cities: The Growth Ponzi Scheme

2021-07-24 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Urban Planning Leave a comment
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