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  • La Cucaracha

    2026-08-14 Howard Campbell

    by Howard Campbell After walking across the heavily fortified Paso del Norte bridge and ducking through Mexican customs, you arrive at the foot of Juárez

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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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  • 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 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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  • 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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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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The City of El Paso Is Poorly Managed

2019-01-28 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider One comment

I’ve said it before: The City of El Paso is poorly managed, and they can’t stop messing up. From an

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Sunday Matinee: Swelter

2019-01-27 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a movie about bad guys and bad guys trying to be good. We’ve all been there, right? With a

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OPM

2019-01-25 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Ethics, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

It’s hard to believe that any of the arena backers would be so enthusiastic if they were investing their own

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Where Locals Drink

2019-01-25 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Coconuts!? Coconuts, that little seven o’clock bar in Five Points, cracked the top ten in the El Paso Inc.’s list

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What Is That Word?

2019-01-21 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Ethics, Slider One comment

noun plural noun: ethics; noun: ethics 1. moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity.

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