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  • Higher Border Water Rates, Donut Holes and a Thorny Divorce in Sunland Park and Santa Teresa

    2025-11-25 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Customers of the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA) in the New Mexico border communities of Sunland Park and Santa Teresa will

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  • Again, Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-11-23 elrichiboy

    I’m probably late to the party with this. Won’t AI generated “people” start infiltrating your social media feed? Come on, AI is going to be

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  • “Powering AI: The Environmental Impacts of Borderland Data Centers”

    2025-11-17 elrichiboy

    “[NMELC] Staff Attorney, Kacey Hovden, along with our clients, has been invited as a guest speaker at a University of Texas El Paso panel, Powering AI: The Environmental

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  • “Harper”

    2025-11-16 elrichiboy
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  • Thank the Taxpayers

    2025-11-10 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story at ElPasoTimes.com titled State of the County address touts growth through bonds in address. “On time and on budget” was the rallying

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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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Johnny Cash – Hurt

2021-04-12 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Sunday Matinee – Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times

2021-04-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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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

2021-04-09 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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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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Saturday Matinee – The Wall Street Conspiracy

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Friday Short – The Crush

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Gimme Some Water

2021-04-01 elrichiboy Climate Change, Slider 7 comments

El Paso is in a drought. I heard it first when the Archeology Museum announced they wouldn’t be holding a

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the Interrupters – She’s Kerosene

2021-03-31 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Omega Mart Commercials

2021-03-31 elrichiboy Video, What to Do Leave a comment

Omega Mart is the Las Vegas outlet for Meow Wolf.

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The Killdares – Whiskey In the Jar

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The Water Parks Are Coming!

2021-03-30 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, City Council, City Management, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks 5 comments

This just in, from KTSM: Newly constructed regional water park Camp Cohen is set to have its opening day by

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City of Dust – Courtland, Arizona

2021-03-30 John Mulhouse City of Dust Leave a comment

And You Will Know Me By My Jail Traveling southwestward down the dusty Ghost Town Trail puts us in the

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Chris Isaak – Wicked Game

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