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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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  • 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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Why The Streetcars Don’t Work

2019-03-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Trolley 4 comments

If you take Sun Metro from the Glory Road Transfer Center to the Downtown Transfer Center, the bus leaves every

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El Paso Home Building Is At An Historical Low

2019-03-15 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Liar Liar, Slider 2 comments

From a story on Governing.com: In about 62 percent of the cities reviewed, 2018 permitting totals exceeded their averages over

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Ex-Rep Heather Wilson

2019-03-12 elrichiboy Ethics, Slider 4 comments

This week, UTEP announced, as the sole finalist to replace outgoing President Diana Natalicio, the former congresswoman from New Mexico

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Six Years On

2019-03-08 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement, Slider 9 comments

On March 8, 2013, El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores shot the handcuffed prisoner Danny Saenz in the sallyport of

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On The Other Hand

2019-03-08 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Commissioners Court, Law Enforcement 2 comments

Here’s a story about some police violence perpetrated by the Boston Transit Authority Police: A former transit police officer and

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More Bull****t

2019-03-06 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Slider, What to Do 4 comments

Watch this video on YouTube Down below El Paso lies Juarez Mexico is different, like the travel folder says (Burt

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Disinformation

2019-03-05 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Ethics, Liar Liar, Slider, Taxes, The Arena, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Maybe you saw this op-ed in the El Paso Times this weekend: We are proud El Paso residents, but it

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Where Does The Money Grow?

2019-03-01 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes One comment

The Capital Improvements portion of the adopted FY 2019 budget is $198,758,086. Where does it come from? From the budget

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The Future: Smaller Stadiums

2019-02-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

The problem with a 50 year plan is that things change, as noted in this article from Axios: After years

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Our Boys In Blue

2019-02-26 elrichiboy City Management, Law Enforcement 2 comments

Here’s an article from KVIA about the efforts of our local police: Nine emergency phone calls were made and two

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Feds Close the Bridge

2019-02-22 elrichiboy Breaking News, Slider One comment

U.S. Customs agents closed the Bridge of the Americas, aka the Free Bridge, this morning. Apparently the closure was related

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Hide The Pickle

2019-02-19 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider 5 comments

The City is up to something. They’re redoing their website. Here’s what it looks like this morning: Look at that

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Mom and Dad Are Fighting

2019-02-18 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

You probably saw this op-ed in the Times, where former mayor John Cook and ex-City Manager Joyce Wilson defend their

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Lessons in Horse Trading

2019-02-14 elrichiboy City Management, Downtown, Slider 5 comments

If you’re selling a blind horse, the first thing you tell the mark prospective buyer is how good that horse

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Pity the Rich

2019-02-13 elrichiboy ballpark, MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

Those poor little rich folk. They can’t go to dive bars, or downtown Juarez. They’ll never know the joys of

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Sunday Matinee: Harsh Times

2019-02-10 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Christian Bale is America’s greatest living actor. And here he is playing a semi-psychotic ex-soldier trying to find a job

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KVIA’s Special Report on QOL Cost Overruns

2019-02-08 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

KVIA delivered a Special Report last night on the Quality of Life bond projects cost overruns. It’s entertaining. Just spitballing,

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Sunday Matinee: The Assassin

2019-02-03 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 2 comments

This movie from Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien is gorgeous. You might be tempted to write it off as some Chinese

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El Paso’s Secret City Government

2019-02-01 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider 8 comments

Here’s something that should concern every El Pasoan. On Monday, El Paso’s City Council is having a Special Meeting. After

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John Stossel on Stadiums

2019-01-30 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

On the occasion of Super Bowl LIII, John Stossel reminds us. Watch this video on YouTube Fortunately, we’re smarter than

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  • How Government Works
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  • “The Merry Gentlemen”
  • “The Siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC): How Archimedes Stopped Rome”
  • The Data Center Chronicles: The Battle of Jupiter Comes to Albuquerque

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