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  • Drones for Them, But Not for Us?

    2026-08-12 Tim Holt

    By Tim Holt The ACLU released a report in March called Drones For Them But Not For Us? Most people will probably see that title

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  • Citlali Delgado, Artist

    2026-08-11 Rich Wright

    Every artist needs a body of work. One painting, or one song, or one role, on stage or the big screen, won’t lead to fame

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  • El Paso Matters to the Rescue

    2026-08-07 Rich Wright

    From ElPasoMatters.org: Between 2015 and 2025, the number of El Pasoans under age 65 grew by fewer than 4,000. The number of those 65 and

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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 Congresswoman Haley Stevens, Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed’s August 4 win in the Michigan Democratic primary for the

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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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  • Data centers, school closures and sprawl are a signal that El Paso needs a new civic vision

    2026-07-30 Guest Column

    By Dylan Corbett, Special to El Paso Matters. Our city stands at a turning point. Schools are closing. Young people are leaving. The global economy

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  • “The Arrest That Exposed the CIA’s Most Secret Mission”

    2026-08-08 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”

    2026-08-02 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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Dystopia, USA

2025-07-08 Rich Wright Law Enforcement, Slider Leave a comment

Imagine masked U.S. government agents kidnapping people off the street and sending them to concentration camps. Dystopian fiction? Nah. It’s

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Immigration and Detention Witness

2025-07-07 Xavier Miranda Slider, Immigration, Law Enforcement 2 comments

by Xavier Miranda I spent the morning of Friday, June 20,  at the U. S. Courthouse in downtown El Paso,

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“Quiet Please, Murder”

2025-07-06 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“Archimedes – The Greatest Inventor of the Ancient World”

2025-07-05 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary Leave a comment
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Watching the Watchers

2025-07-02 Rich Wright Surveillance, Law Enforcement, Mexico, Slider Leave a comment

I told you about the Torre Centinela that’s going up in downtown Juarez. Well, Juarez isn’t the only city in

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EPEC’s Rate Increase

2025-06-30 Rich Wright El Paso Electric Company, Dee "Hold the Line on Taxes" Margo, Economic Development, Slider One comment

In this ElPasoMatters.com post, Diego Mendoza-Myers writes about EPEC’s plans to build out its system and what that means for

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“Intrigue”

2025-06-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Slider Leave a comment
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“Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

2025-06-28 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

2025-06-23 Rich Wright El Paso Electric Company, Slider One comment

Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation

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“The Spider”

2025-06-22 elrichiboy Slider, Sunday Matinee Leave a comment
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“The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

2025-06-21 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider 2 comments
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“The First Livestreamed Genocide”

2025-06-21 Rich Wright War Crimes, Slider Leave a comment

From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted

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I Don’t Like Bullies

2025-06-20 Rich Wright Slider, Politics 2 comments

On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not

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Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

2025-06-18 Rich Wright Bridge of the Americas, Mexico, Slider, The Environment Leave a comment

Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision

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STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso

2025-06-16 Paul Dickerson Juarez, Law Enforcement, Slider 3 comments

by Paul Dickerson This morning, I was crossing the Puente Paso del Norte back to El Paso after running a

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“Outside the Law”

2025-06-15 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee, Slider Leave a comment
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“Colombian Cartels: Meet the World’s Biggest Drug Suppliers”

2025-06-14 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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Dead People

2025-06-13 Rich Wright Juarez, Drugs, Marijuana, Slider 2 comments

I am of an age where I know lots of dead people. Some, of course, have been dead for a

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“The League of Gentlemen”

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“1964: The Year That Changed America”

2025-06-07 elrichiboy Saturday Documentary, Slider Leave a comment
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