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  • Forget the Carpetbaggers. What about the Judases?

    2026-07-25 elrichiboy

    Say what you will about the carpetbaggers who come into El Paso and fleece the citizens and then move away. At least they have the

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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”

    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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Retrovision: They’re Bullies

2019-10-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 14 August 2018. Did you see this story on KVIA? Texas oilman J.P. Bryan, one

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Friday Short: Cropped

2019-10-04 elrichiboy Friday Short One comment
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Opportunity Costs

2019-10-04 elrichiboy Slider, ballpark, City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Opportunity Costs, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Water Parks 4 comments

The City of El Paso is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on stuff we don’t need. City Council [will

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Retrovision: The City’s Plan Sucks.

2019-10-03 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Retrovision, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Welfare for the Rich One comment

This article originally appeared on 03 May 2018. The City of El Paso is implementing a plan that some rich

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Tejon Street Corner Thieves: Whiskey

2019-10-03 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment
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The ROI of Campaign Donations

2019-10-03 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 9 comments

Deciphering what’s happening at City Hall is like trying to see the truth through a cracked crystal. From CBS4Local.com: The

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Shank Shank Shank Went the Trolley

2019-10-02 elrichiboy Dionne Mack, Law Enforcement, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez, Trolley 5 comments

First they said it was a bus stop, then they said it was a Sun Metro stop, but I think

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Champions League

2019-10-02 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do One comment

Okay, I’m a little late to the party here, but there’s still lots to play. The first week of UEFA

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Naysayers, Malcontents, and Crazies

2019-10-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 3 comments

Back in 2012, when our city leaders were selling their plan to pimp El Paso, those of us who raised

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Down the Economic Development Rabbit Hole

2019-09-27 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, population, Public Private Partnerships, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

Brutus had a good post at ElPasoSpeak.com yesterday. His post included this slide: Perhaps you’ll remember this article titled Whose

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The Great Divide

2019-09-27 elrichiboy Elections, Politics, Slider 5 comments

El Paso is fractured. Culturally. Geographically. Economically. Politically. And linguistically. According to the most current estimates from the U.S. Census

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It’s Not Too Late To Get Those Tomatoes In The Ground

2019-09-26 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Slider Leave a comment

Lookie here. The National Weather Service says there a real good chance that this winter will be warmer than usual.

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Retrovision: EL PASO’S BLEAK FUTURE: A CONTRARIAN VIEW

2019-09-26 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Retrovision, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 26 December 2012. If any of our current elected officials claim that they couldn’t have

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The Future Revealed!

2019-09-25 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

I can’t imagine the City of El Paso keeping next year’s budget under an amount that won’t require at least

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How Stockton Went Bankrupt

2019-09-25 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics, Slider, Taxes One comment

Here’s a familiar tune. Only some of the words have changed, and our numbers are bigger. Daniel Berger, a senior

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RIP Chet

2019-09-24 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Music, Slider 7 comments

Chet first came to El Paso playing drums for Big Jack Johnson. Two months later he showed up at Wildhare’s

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The Arena Saga That Wouldn’t Die

2019-09-24 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Ethics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez 4 comments

I lifted this from David Crowder’s article about the Downtown arena that appeared in the El Paso Inc. this weekend.

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Our Political Class

2019-09-23 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Corruption, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 6 comments

Somehow, El Paso developed professional politicians. Okay, the development of professional politicians was intentional. Corrupt power brokers recruited electable candidates

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If You Build it, Will They Come?

2019-09-22 elrichiboy Slider 5 comments

TxDOT says the Border West Expressway project is finished, but you can’t drive on it yet, according to this story

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Do You Trust City Government?

2019-09-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez 2 comments

I lifted this from the City’s website: The proposed 2019 Public Safety Bond is the City’s plan to use voter approved bonds

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