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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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Sunday Matinee: Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street

2020-07-12 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Why Our Taxes are High and Our Streets are Bad

2020-07-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

You could write it off to the City’s excessive spending. And you’d be right. The City is drunk on spending

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Friday Short: Dust

2020-07-10 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment
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Coke Dealing in Juarez

2020-07-09 elrichiboy Juarez, Slider, Video Leave a comment

With El Paso in a supporting role. This documentary originally aired in September, 2019.

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The Fiscal Ship is Sinking

2020-07-06 elrichiboy Cassandra Hernandez, Certificates of Obligation, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Here’s a news flash from the El Paso Inc.: El Paso leads major Texas cities in debt not approved by

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Carlsbad Caverns Park Ranger Shoots, Kills, Speeder

2020-07-01 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Slider One comment

From KOB.com, an Albuquerque TV station: Recently released videos from a body-camera worn by a National Park Ranger at Carlsbad

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It’s Good to be the Chief

2020-07-01 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Law Enforcement, Slider 6 comments

Protesters are calling for the dismissal of El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen. From the El Paso Times: [O]rganizers unveiled

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Racism in El Paso

2020-06-29 elrichiboy City Council, Education, Slider 13 comments

Racism is kind of like a secret club. If you don’t belong, you might not know it exists. In 1927,

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Leon Bridges: Beyond

2020-06-27 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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“Throw a Billion Dollars from the Helicopter”

2020-06-27 elrichiboy ballpark, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Joyce Wilson, MountainStar Sports Group, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

Here’s a scathing article from Reason.com about cities building stadiums. Throw a Billion Dollars from the Helicopter is a new

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Post-Pandemic Education Thoughts

2020-06-24 Xavier Miranda Coronavirus, Education, Slider Leave a comment

This piece was written by Xavier Miranda. Our education community must contend with a new malignant normalcy in our society.

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A Streetcar Named Conspire

2020-06-24 elrichiboy Public Transportation, Slider, Trolley 3 comments

An alert reader tipped me to this item on June 19 Metropolitan Planning Organization agenda. How about a little operating

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Sunday Matinee: New York Confidential

2020-06-21 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Segundo Barrio

2020-06-18 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Downtown, Economic Development, History, Slider, TIRZs 2 comments

Have you seen this map of the Segundo Barrio Historic District the El Paso Commissioners Court approved last Monday? It’s

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1959 Nero Wolfe Pilot

2020-06-17 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment
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Is the Plaza Hotel Open?

2020-06-15 elrichiboy Breaking News, Economic Development One comment

Here’s a listing for the Plaza Hotel Pioneer Park I came across on hotels.com. I guess you could be one

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About the Cops

2020-06-14 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Slider 6 comments

I was on the balcony at Tricky Falls a few years ago, talking to some guys who had come down

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As protests grow, big labor sides with police unions

2020-06-08 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Slider 5 comments

This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity, Alexia Fernández Campbell, Senior Reporter Labor unions exist to

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Pokey LaFarge: Something in the Water

2020-06-05 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment
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Living With Covid

2020-06-05 elrichiboy Coronavirus, Quarantine, Slider 5 comments

Things are different now. If you get the Covid, you’re going to kill someone you love. Your grandmother. Your father.

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