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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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David Garza – Float Away

2020-12-31 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Max Flansburg – Long Hard Year

2020-12-30 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Joe T. Hodo – Agua pasa por mi termo (cates se los doy yo)

2020-12-30 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo Leave a comment
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The Failing Health of Government By Spin

2020-12-30 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Ethics, Media, Politics, Slider, Technology Leave a comment

El Paso has a long history of catering to private interest in the name of public good. That worked before

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Sunday Matinee – The House on Telegraph Hill

2020-12-27 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Friday Short – Black Angel

2020-12-25 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Joyeux Noel

2020-12-24 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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Dropkick Murphys – “The Season’s Upon Us”

2020-12-23 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Joe T. Hodo – Expropiación de órganos de los usuarios del Paso Express

2020-12-22 elrichiboy Joe T. Hodo Leave a comment
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A Message From the Local Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America

2020-12-22 Xavier Miranda Elections, Guest Column, Politics, Slider 4 comments

Greetings All, My name is Xavier Miranda, and I am the new Chair of the DSA of El Chuco Electoral

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Dinosaur 94 – Love Impaired

2020-12-21 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Better Candidates = Better Government

2020-12-21 elrichiboy City Council, Elections, Politics, Slider 8 comments

El Pasoans don’t vote. In the most recent mayoral runoff, only 13% of the registered voters cast a ballot. Yeah,

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Marijuana Might Save Your Life

2020-12-21 elrichiboy Coronavirus, News 2 comments

From High Times Forbes.com: As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, researchers have started to look for solutions in an unlikely

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Sunday Matinee – 1984

2020-12-20 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Saturday Matinee – Abducted in Argentina

2020-12-19 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short – A Shadow of Dara

2020-12-18 elrichiboy Friday Short, Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Retrovision: Our Local Public Private Partnerships

2020-12-17 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, MountainStar Sports Group, Opportunity Costs, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 08 February 2018. Public Private Partnerships are all the rage. The ballpark got one. The

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Frontera Bugalu’s Tiny Desk

2020-12-17 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment

Here’s Frontera Bugalu’s submission to NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series. Looks like a party I wish I’d been invited to.

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What’s Wrong With the Ballpark

2020-12-16 elrichiboy ballpark, City Management, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

The baseball stadium is nice. Real nice. One of the nicest ballparks in the country, and one of the nicest

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The Speakeasy Three: When I get Low I Get High

2020-12-15 elrichiboy Music One comment
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