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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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  • The New York Times on Project Jupiter

    2025-12-11 elrichiboy

    NYTimes.com did a story about Project Jupiter Stargate Project Miner, the mega data center that is to built out there by Santa Teresa. Mostly the

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  • The Santa Teresa Data Center: On Pollutants, Permits and Project Alphabet Soup

    2025-12-06 Kent Paterson

    Text and Photos by Kent Paterson Since last summer, the hyperscale AI data center under construction in Santa Teresa has been promoted under different names

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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

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What the EPPD is Against

2021-02-17 elrichiboy City Management, Dionne Mack, El Paso Police Department, Law Enforcement, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 6 comments

During Monday’s City Council Work Session, our elected officials discussed the direction they were going to give our legislative delegation

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