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  • John Prine – “I Remember Everything”

    2026-07-30 elrichiboy
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  • Another Actor Suddenly Exits the Doña Ana County Political Stage

    2026-07-23 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Government in Doña Ana County is in turmoil. The shakeups continued this week as the Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners terminated

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  • How Government Works

    2026-07-22 Rich Wright

    Some people are talking a lot about the evils of socialism these days. None of the other isms are pure gold, either. Capitalism. Populism. Communism.

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  • “The Great Depression – America’s Biggest Economic Crisis”

    2026-07-18 elrichiboy
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  • “The Merry Gentlemen”

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  • “The Siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC): How Archimedes Stopped Rome”

    2026-07-11 elrichiboy
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  • “Jigsaw”

    2026-07-05 elrichiboy
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  • Pay Raises for Everybody (But Not for You)

    2026-07-02 Rich Wright

    Our elected officials at the City (the Mayor and City Representatives) are getting 15% pay raises this year. The people at the City working for

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  • “Guilty Bystander”

    2026-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls”

    2026-06-27 elrichiboy
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  • F. E. Curry And Fate’s Vagary

    2026-06-25 Bob Chessey

    The 1923 trial of F. E. Curry is a tale of a lawman who, from performing official duties, became labeled a criminal and exemplifies the

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  • Golden Cobwebs from the Vault: El Paso’s Aborted Towers

    2026-06-17 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Up for a little historic sightseeing in West Side El Paso? If you happen to be driving west on North Mesa and

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“The Dark Story of How America Destroyed The Gilded Age”

2026-01-24 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment
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Masa pa’ la Raza: Taconeta

2026-01-23 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

For the third year in a row, Taconeta made it to the semi-finals of the James Beard Awards in the

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Fritz Lang’s “House by the River”

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“The Gilded Age”

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An “Unprecedented” Event

2026-01-13 Rich Wright El Paso Water, Public Service Board, Slider, The Environment, Water One comment

This from ElPasoTimes.com: It could be until mid-week when a boil water notice is lifted and water service is fully

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The Primary Elections

2026-01-12 Rich Wright Elections, Slider One comment

I always vote. Every election. School boards. State judges. Railroad Commissioner. I have even gone to the fire station to

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“Between Midnight and Dawn”

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“That one night in jail at El Paso was tough.” | The Man in Black’s El Paso Drug Bust

2026-01-09 Bob Chessey Uncategorized Leave a comment

by Bob Chessey (Unless otherwise noted, information is based on March 2, 2010 interview by author with retired El Paso

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“This Border City Isn’t What You Think (El Paso)”

2026-01-03 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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Shopping South El Paso Street

2025-12-22 Rich Wright How to Live in El Paso, Slider One comment

South El Paso Street is El Paso’s most vibrant street. In the daytime, South El Paso Street is what our

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“Fire Maidens from Outer Space”

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“White, Poor & Angry: Inside America’s Most Racist Town”

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Project Jupiter’s Environmental Impact

2025-12-17 Rich Wright The Environment, Economic Development, Project Jupiter, Slider, Water Leave a comment

Here’s another article critical about Project Jupiter. This critique is environmental. From Truthout.org: At the very Southeastern tip of New

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Humphery Bogart & Rod Steiger in “The Harder They Fall”

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“Why Turkmenistan Makes North Korea Look Normal”

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The New York Times on Project Jupiter

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

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

2025-12-06 Kent Paterson CRRUA, Project Jupiter, Slider, The Environment, Water Leave a comment

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

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Retrovision: The Problem With TIRZs

2025-12-03 elrichiboy Uncategorized, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs Leave a comment

This post originally appeared on 10 February 2023. Part of the reason that property taxes are so high in the

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Solving the City’s Budget Problem: Let’s Get Rid of the TIRZs

2025-12-02 Rich Wright Slider, City Council, City Management, Debt, Dionne Mack, Joyce Wilson, Renard Johnson, Robert Cortinas, Taxes, TIRZs 4 comments

Did you see last week that the City Manager wanted to charge every house and business in El Paso a

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“The Second Woman”

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