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  • Fritz Lang’s “House by the River”

    2026-01-18 elrichiboy
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  • “The Gilded Age”

    2026-01-17 elrichiboy
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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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Alan Jackson – In The Garden

2021-06-06 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Are We Ready For The Next Crisis?

2021-06-05 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short – What In The World

2021-06-04 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Alternatino – The Truth About Border Crossers

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More Good News From the Folks Running the City

2021-06-04 elrichiboy Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, El Paso Electric Company, Liar Liar, Slider One comment

Good news, everybody. I know you’ve been worried about those investors from JP Morgan Chase. You know, the ones behind

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Sunday Matinee – Soldier of Fortune

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Jerry Lee Lewis – Just a Closer Walk With Thee

2021-05-30 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Why the China Covid Lab-Leak Theory is Being Taken Seriously

2021-05-29 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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The Children’s Hospital Lawsuit

2021-05-26 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, El Paso Children's Hospital, Slider 2 comments

Here’s a story about the El Paso Children’s Hospital, headlined Family Alleges Profit Motives Played Role in 3-Year-Old’s Death –

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Losing Faith In Our Institutions, Part 2

2021-05-26 Rich Wright Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, El Paso Police Department, El Paso Times, Law Enforcement, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, The "Progressives" Leave a comment

Truth, Justice, and the American Way. These days, asking if truth and justice are the American way is a legitimate

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Losing Faith In Our Institutions

2021-05-25 Rich Wright Coronavirus, Slider 3 comments

Here’s a story from The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that posits pretty conclusively that COVID originated in a lab

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Remember Jane Shang?

2021-05-24 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Joyce Wilson, Slider 2 comments

After Deputy City Manager Jane Shang left El Paso City Government with eleven months paid leave that made her eligible

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Border Boo Boos

2021-05-24 Kent Paterson Media, Mexico, Migration 2 comments

By Kent Paterson We’ve withstood some pretty fierce winds in the region lately. But so far, fortunately, no wind has

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Sunday Matinee – The Tattered Dress

2021-05-23 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Johnny Cash, Earl Scruggs, Mark O’connor, et al – Life’s Railway To Heaven

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Saturday Matinee – Manufacturing Ignorance

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Alternatino – The World’s Worst Translator

2021-05-18 elrichiboy alternatino Leave a comment
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There She Is

2021-05-17 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, Slider 5 comments

From the Whispers column is this week’s El Paso Inc.: Look for an announcement this week from the El Paso

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Gerrymander El Paso

2021-05-16 elrichiboy City Council, Elections, Redistricting, Slider 8 comments

Here’s a link to the City of El Paso’s map of the City’s Representative districts. It’s a hash. One can

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Sunday Matinee – Hunt the Man Down

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