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

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

    2026-07-12 elrichiboy
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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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  • You Can Pay When You’re Dead

    2026-06-08 Rich Wright

    Since 1979, the State of Texas has had a program that saves older homeowners from getting their houses seized because of past due property taxes.

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  • The Battle of Socorro (New Mexico) and the Futures of People and Data Centers

    2026-06-04 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Emerging as one of the hottest issues in the U.S. today, hyperscale AI data centers have become a magnet for citizen activism

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  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”

    2026-05-31 elrichiboy
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Friday Short: The Occupant

2019-12-06 elrichiboy Friday Short, Video Leave a comment
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What El Paso’s Stagnant Population Growth Means To You

2019-12-05 elrichiboy Slider, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, population, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

I guess you’ve heard the news. El Paso’s not growing. Our birthrate is falling. School enrollment is down. Those aren’t

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She Wants Revenge: Tear You Apart

2019-12-03 elrichiboy Music Leave a comment
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Nothing to See Here

2019-12-03 elrichiboy Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Did you hear about this in the media? This version is from the El Paso Times: The El Paso City

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El Hermano Mayor

2019-12-03 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez, News, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

This just in, from CNN: The Department of Homeland Security wants to be able to use facial-recognition technology to identify

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Battle of the Titans

2019-12-02 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, El Paso Electric Company, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

Man, this Electric Company deal is turning out to be like an old B movie. Opposing the deal are some

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Bad News Day

2019-12-02 elrichiboy Media, Slider Leave a comment

Gannett Company’s stock traded at a 52 week low today. Right now it’s trading at $6.33 a share, down almost

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Sunday Matinee: Dragon Eyes

2019-12-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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The El Paso Police “Will Fucking Kill You”

2019-11-29 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Dionne Mack, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

And why not? There’s no downside (for them) when an employee of the City of El Paso kills a resident.

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El Paso’s Impending Civil War

2019-11-28 elrichiboy Politics, Slider, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Here’s an article I found on Salon.com, parts of which correspond to our situation in El Paso. The current issue

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Lucille Bogan: Shave ’em Dry

2019-11-27 elrichiboy Music, Video 3 comments

WARNING: DON’T PLAY THIS SONG AT WORK, OR IN THE PRESENCE OF CHILDREN, OR YOUR IN-LAWS, OR CHURCH-GOING FOLK.

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Jumping on the Bandwagon

2019-11-26 elrichiboy Economic Development, population, Slider 2 comments

This week’s main story in the El Paso Inc. is titled El Paso’s Birthrate is Falling, by David Crowder. Here

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El Paso’s PDNG Hangover

2019-11-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Media, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

Y’all remember the Paso del Norte Group. Back in the aughts, they were going to launch El Paso’s renaissance. They

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Friday Short: Eclair

2019-11-22 elrichiboy Friday Short, Video 2 comments
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Sunday Matinee: 8 Assassins

2019-11-17 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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Jurisdictionary

2019-11-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider 3 comments

Horrors. It’s Sunday, and the Women’s Auxiliary is coming over, and you’re out of gin. The liquor stores are closed

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Eliza and the delusionals: Just Exist

2019-11-13 elrichiboy Art, Music, Video One comment
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Breaking News: Heather Wilson Has a Dog

2019-11-12 elrichiboy Breaking News, Media, Slider 5 comments

This just in, from El Paso’s business journal: Heather Wilson, UTEP’s new president, is a dog person. We know that

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Friday Short: Plurality

2019-11-08 elrichiboy Friday Short, Video One comment
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How El Paso Lost the Election

2019-11-08 elrichiboy Chamber of Commerce, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Elections, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich 4 comments

I don’t know it you noticed, but the citizens of El Paso lost that election the other day. The City

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  • “The Great Depression – America’s Biggest Economic Crisis”
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  • “The Siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC): How Archimedes Stopped Rome”
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