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  • The Michigan Earthquake: Did Data Centers Clinch Al-Sayed’s Primary Victory?

    2026-08-05 Kent Paterson

    By Kent Paterson Outspent 11 to 1 by incumbent Senator Haley Stevens, Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed’s August 4 win in the Michigan Democratic primary for the

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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”

    2026-08-02 elrichiboy
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  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”

    2026-07-31 Vanessa Johnson

    Shouts and Murmurs On July 30, El Paso Electric sent out an email to its customers, with the subject line “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained.”

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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”

    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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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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Change is Hard

2019-09-18 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Downtown, Economic Development, Education, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez, Uncategorized 9 comments

About ten years ago, the people who really run things in El Paso decided that the city needed public amenities

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A Chance for a Do-Over

2019-09-16 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Corruption, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Ethics, Great Wolf Resorts, Henry Rivera, Opportunity!, Sam Morgan, Slider, Tommy Gonzalez Leave a comment

And how often in life do you get a Mulligan? This was in this week’s El Paso Inc. It looks

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Lil Nas X “Old Town Road”

2019-09-12 elrichiboy Art, Music, Slider, Video One comment

From the Wall Street Journal: Just this year, “Old Town Road,” the hip-hop-flavored internet hit by Lil Nas X, made

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Did the Mayor of El Paso Fire the Editor of the City’s Daily?

2019-09-11 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

It sure looks like it. On September 17, 2017, this editorial appeared in the print edition of the El Paso

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Tweedle Eedle Eet

2019-09-10 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

Bob Moore’s ElPasoMatters twitter feed features the kind of feel good stories we love here at El Chuqueño. Here’s the

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Nothing to See Here

2019-09-09 elrichiboy Politics, Slider Leave a comment

Lookie here. This advert in the El Paso Inc. says that State Representative Joe Moody is the new General Counsel

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Sunday Matinee: Mafia

2019-09-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a seventies blaxploitation movie that was made in 2012. Starring Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, and the melting Terminator guy.

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The 3.5% Solution

2019-09-05 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Henry Rivera, Quality of Life Projects, Sam Morgan, Slider, The Arena, Water Parks 2 comments

You’ve probably heard that the Texas Legislature reduced the rollback rate to 3.5%. Here’s the skinny from the Texas Tribune.

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“I Was Hacked!”

2019-09-03 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider 9 comments

I guess District 3 Representative Cassandra Hernandez hasn’t been keeping up with current events. “I was hacked” seems to work

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Sunday Matinee: Dawn Rider

2019-09-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 2012 Western starring that guy from Mr. Robot and Donald Sutherland. Christian Slater. Yeah, Christian Slater. Check it

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Whose Economic Development Do You Think They’re Worried About?

2019-09-01 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

According the City’s FY2019 Budget, El Paso was poised to spend $19,814,987 on Economic Development in the 2019 Fiscal Year.

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Six Feet High and Rising

2019-08-30 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Cost of Living, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Well, lookie here. The dead tree edition of the El Paso Times reports that our County’s Hospital District is raising

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Retrovision: Make El Paso Great Again

2019-08-30 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Education, Retrovision, Slider One comment

This article originally appeared on 2017 March 30. Lemme tell you how to get us out of that hole that

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Mayor Margo’s Press Conference

2019-08-29 elrichiboy City Council, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider, The Arena, Tommy Gonzalez One comment

Last week City Manager Tommy Gonzalez gave an interview to CBS4Local. Judging by the page hits and comments, y’all enjoyed

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