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  • Who’s the New Guy?

    2025-10-17 Rich Wright

    Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General who sometimes gets indicted and impeached, has launched a campaign to infiltrate left wing organizations. In response to the

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  • Ninja Convention

    2025-10-16 Rich Wright

    The Secret Society of Ninjas met in El Paso this week, and I was lucky enough to photograph their parade on Montana last night. Kudos

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  • “Trump and the FBI”

    2025-10-11 elrichiboy
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  • The Giant Data Center in the Desert Rises

    2025-10-07 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Amid the landscape of yucca and creosote plants, artificial intelligence-driven Project Stargate took shape this week just a tad up the road from

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  • Diminishing El Paso

    2025-10-06 Rich Wright

    Here’s a story from ElPasoMatters.org‘s CEO Bob Moore about El Paso County’s population growth prospects: El Paso County will continue to see little to moderate

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  • “Highway Dragnet”

    2025-10-05 elrichiboy
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  • “The 1916 [Irish] Rising of Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”

    2025-10-04 elrichiboy
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  • Ouch!

    2025-10-03 Rich Wright

    The El Paso Times delivered its mandated circulation report on page 5A of Thursday’s dead tree edition, and it’s not pretty. On July 25, 2025,

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  • Juarez’ 2025 Bullfighting Season

    2025-10-01 Rich Wright

    While we weren’t looking, the Ciudad Juarez 2025 bullfighting season got underway. The next bullfight is Friday, October 3 at 8pm at the Alberto Balderas

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  • The Deck Park Will Kill Downtown

    2025-09-30 Rich Wright

    Downtown El Paso is already barely accessible. What effect will 5 years of freeway and deck park construction have on it? All those businesses who

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  • “Park Plaza 605”

    2025-09-28 elrichiboy
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  • Social Engineering Chuco-Style

    2025-09-26 Rich Wright

    I live in a neighborhood I call Barrio Heights. Barrio Heights is below Rim Road, close to El Paso High. The houses in Barrio Heights

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The American Dreamer

2021-02-24 elrichiboy Immigration Leave a comment

Here’s a story in New Yorker about the life of a successful Dreamer and the sacrifices her parents made. The

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Tom Waits – God’s Away On Business

2021-02-23 elrichiboy Music One comment
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City of Dust – Pearce, Arizona

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Getting on the Ghost Town Trail Pearce, Arizona marks the beginning of the Ghost Town Trail. Start heading southwest out

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Agenda Review 15 February 202i Recap

2021-02-23 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Quality of Life Projects, Robert Cortinas, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Here’s the video of the 15 February 2021 El Paso City Council Agenda Review meeting. I watched (most of) it

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Charlie Crockett – Lesson in Depression

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Smoking Time Jazz Club – Percolatin’ Blues

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Some Lawyers are Sleazebags

2021-02-21 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Downtown Historic District, Slider 4 comments

There is a horrific story in this week’s El Paso Inc., about an older Las Cruces woman who was essentially

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Sunday Matinee – Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot

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The Jubilaires – Noah

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Willi Carlisle – Angels

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Tom Petty – Free Fallin’

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Armed Thugs Attack Veteran at El Paso V.A.

2021-02-20 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, News, Slider 7 comments

El Paso is in the national spotlight again. Again, it’s for all the wrong reasons. From Forbes.com: Shortly after he

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Saturday Matinee – Plastic Wars

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Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams

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Friday Short – The Dentist

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The View From the Top

2021-02-19 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes One comment

Lookie here. I took that photo from in front of the main gate, on Santa Fe, of the ballpark. See

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Darren Carter – Teddy’s Cougar Den, El Paso, Texas

2021-02-19 elrichiboy Video 2 comments

Hollywood (RIP) called Teddy’s Jurassic Park.

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The Duskwhales – Today

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Charley Crockett – Blackjack County Chain

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Emmylou Harris – Tulsa Queen

2021-02-17 elrichiboy Music One comment
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