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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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Saturday Matinee – Forest Man

2021-04-17 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short – The Clue

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Mexican Pot Is Getting Harder to Sell

2021-04-16 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Marijuana 8 comments

From the AP, via KTSM.com: BADIRAGUATO, Mexico (AP) — For the first time that María can remember, half of her

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The Auteurs – New French Girlfriend

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Social Distortion – Story of My Life

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Ft. Bliss NCO Convicted of Multiple Rapes

2021-04-14 elrichiboy Fort Bliss One comment

From the ArmyTimes.com: Staff Sgt. Randall S. Hughes got off with a slap on the wrist after he raped the

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FloraFEST this Weekend

2021-04-14 elrichiboy What to Do Leave a comment

The Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens is hosting their FloraFEST this Saturday and Sunday from 8am to 4pm, there

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The EPISD – CREEED Controversy

2021-04-14 Rich Wright Education, Inequality, School Districts, Slider 3 comments

Charter schools aren’t the problem. This story from KTSM.com: El Paso businessmen and board members of a nonprofit supporting the

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Belen, NM to El Paso, TX – Riding the BNSF El Paso Sub

2021-04-14 elrichiboy Video 3 comments
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Johnny Cash – Hurt

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Sunday Matinee – Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times

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Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band – This Little Light of Mine

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Saturday Matinee – Is Meritocracy a Myth?

2021-04-10 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary 2 comments
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Friday Short – A Night in the Show

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Elect Brawlers

2021-04-07 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Politics, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

Traditionally, in El Paso, we elect nice guys. They’re politicians. Polite is practically in the name. There’s nothing wrong with

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A Decline in Democracy

2021-04-06 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Inequality, Politics One comment

Here’s a piece from America’s Quarterly that documents the deterioration of democracy in the Americas, including in the USA. Globally

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Joe T. Hodo – Fundación Joe T. Ayuda: Si lo vales…

2021-04-06 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo Leave a comment
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How Governments Cheat You On Property Taxes

2021-04-04 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Downtown, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

Here’s an interesting story from the Gray Lady: Homeowners have long complained about inequitable assessments, and past studies have documented

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Sunday Matinee – Alfred Hitchcock’s The Paradine Case

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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Alison Krauss – Keep on the Sunny Side of Life

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