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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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  • “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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“Live Active EP”

2020-09-23 elrichiboy City Management, Slider One comment

Here’s an opinion piece in the El Paso Times by Ben Fyffe, “native El Pasoan, . . . the director

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Heilung: Krigsgaldr

2020-09-22 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Jennifer Connelly: Sway

2020-09-21 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Earth, Wind & Fire: September

2020-09-21 elrichiboy Music, Video 4 comments
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You’re the Sucker

2020-09-21 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Library, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 8 comments

Are you getting value from your city tax dollars? I mean, really. Is the city doing anything for you besides

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Number 17

2020-09-20 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Saturday Documentary: Speaking Frankly: Socialism

2020-09-19 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Friday Short: Rebooted

2020-09-18 elrichiboy Friday Short One comment
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Retrovision: The Destruction of Brand El Paso

2020-09-18 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

This article originally appeared on 17 February 2017. An article with the same name was published yesterday. A brand’s greatest

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Mayor Margo’s Priorities

2020-09-18 elrichiboy Certificates of Obligation, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Elections, Slider 11 comments

From an El Paso Times story about a recent mayoral candidate forum: [Incumbent Mayor Dee] Margo agreed with [candidate Carlos]

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The Destruction of Brand El Paso

2020-09-17 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The "Progressives", Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

What does “El Paso” mean to you? I threw quotes around it because I want to talk about the idea

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The Flying Train: The Rest of the Story

2020-09-16 elrichiboy Video 3 comments
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Melbourne Ska Orchestra: Get Smart

2020-09-15 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Survey: Downtown’s Looking Up

2020-09-14 elrichiboy Downtown, Slider 4 comments

The Downtown Management District conducted a survey recently, and guess what? People are optimistic about our central business district. From

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes

2020-09-13 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Movie Idea

2020-09-12 elrichiboy News Leave a comment

Here’s a story from CBSSports.com Just one day after Conor McGregor tweeted about being drug tested by USADA while on

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Friday Short: Doppelbanger (NSFW, or SFWFH)

2020-09-11 elrichiboy Friday Short, Sci Fi, Video Leave a comment
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No News Is Good News

2020-09-11 elrichiboy Media, News, Slider 5 comments

If you live in El Paso, after October 5, you will no longer be able to get the dead-tree edition

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The Problem With El Paso

2020-09-10 elrichiboy Borderplex Alliance, Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Urban Planning 8 comments

The problem is El Paso’s not growing. All the costs of those Quality of Life projects would be easier to

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Chicano Batman: Black Lipstick

2020-09-07 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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  • Thank the Taxpayers
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