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  • Can’t We Just Wait?

    2025-11-09 Rich Wright

    Judging from what I see on social media, the proposed deck park is wildly unpopular. Even most of the people who are okay with the

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  • “The Sniper”

    2025-11-09 elrichiboy
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  • “Why The Normans Were The Most Feared Warriors Across Medieval Europe”

    2025-11-08 elrichiboy
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  • “Deadfall”

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

    2025-11-01 elrichiboy

    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”

    2025-10-26 elrichiboy
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  • “Medieval Feudalism, Explained”

    2025-10-25 elrichiboy
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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”

    2025-10-19 elrichiboy
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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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Friday Short – They’re Made Out Of Meat

2021-04-30 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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The Filthy Lucre is Really Filthy

2021-04-30 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider 2 comments

I don’t like to use my cards. My debit cards represent money in the bank, literally. With my sporadic income,

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Jalan Crossland – Moonshiner

2021-04-29 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Retrovision: We’re on the Wrong Side of History

2021-04-29 elrichiboy Economic Development, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

This post originally appeared on 9 February 2016. The biggest major at UTEP is Criminal Justice. Because law enforcement and

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About That Brownfields Assessment

2021-04-29 elrichiboy Downtown, Ethics, Slider, The Environment 3 comments

Yesterday I walked that downtown area that the Downtown Management District is offering up for brownfield assessment. The tract is

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Credit Where Credit Is Due

2021-04-29 elrichiboy Corrections, Education, Elections, Media, Sam Rodriguez, Self Censorship, Slider One comment

This week I published a post critical of the El Paso Times coverage of an EPISD District 3 candidate. You

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A Challenger for La Vero?

2021-04-28 elrichiboy Elections, National Policy, Politics, Slider One comment

This story from TheHill.com: Daniel Marans, a HuffPost reporter who covers the Democratic Party, on Thursday discussed his recent story on

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Brand Management Chuco-Style

2021-04-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Downtown, Downtown Historic District, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

Welcome to my Pity Party The Downtown Management District thinks it’s a good idea to have parts of downtown El

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Sarah Vaughn – Whatever Lola Wants

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Alternatino – Welcome to America

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Sunday Matinee – Across the Bridge

2021-04-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 4 comments
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Roxy Music – Psalm

2021-04-25 elrichiboy Music One comment
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Saturday Matinee – The Anthropocene: The Age of Mankind

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The El Paso Times’ Reporting on Another CREEED EPISD Candidate

2021-04-23 elrichiboy Education, Elections, Media, Politics, Self Censorship, Slider 2 comments

This morning’s El Paso Times featured this report: An El Paso school board candidate confirmed she does not believe masks are effective

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Friday Short – The Interview

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Steely Dan – King of the World

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Some Antics

2021-04-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Here’s the City of El Paso’s statement regarding City Council’s decision to issued $93 million of debt not approved by

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Alternatino – ICE Responds to All That Negative Press

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Sunday Matinee – The October Man

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Violent Femmes – Jesus Walking on the Water

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