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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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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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Sunday Matinee: Get Shorty

2019-01-20 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee 2 comments

You remember Get Shorty. Sort of. Do you remember that Tony Soprano was in it? And Gene Hackman, Rene Russo,

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They Can’t Stop Lying

2019-01-19 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Great Wolf Resorts, Slider One comment

Here’s Vic Kolenc (I thought he took the early retirement option?) reporting on the Great Wolf Swindle in the El

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On Roads and Debt

2019-01-17 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes One comment

Here’s a piece from StrongTowns.org about how to deal with deteriorating roads and increasing municipal debt. The story is from

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The Future of the El Paso Times

2019-01-15 elrichiboy Media, Slider One comment

From Bloomberg: MNG Enterprises Inc., the owner of the Boston Herald and Denver Post that’s backed by hedge fund Alden

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About the Wall

2019-01-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, Law Enforcement, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

From the El Paso Times: AUSTIN — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday told President Donald Trump that the

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City Saves $2.3 Million

2019-01-09 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Great Wolf Resorts, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena One comment

By spending $161.3 million. From KVIA: El Paso City Council Tuesday authorized the City to borrow $161.3 million for street,

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Ask Not For Whom the Bell Tolls

2019-01-08 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Management, Economic Development, Slider 6 comments

Do y’all remember REDCo? Sure you do. If you’re not old enough to remember REDCo, you’ve already left El Paso

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Meet the New Liar: City Attorney Karla Nieman

2019-01-05 elrichiboy City Management, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena One comment

Lying must be a job requirement for City employees to speak to the press. Here’s our recently minted City Attorney

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All The News They See Fit to Print

2019-01-04 elrichiboy Media, Slider 4 comments

Maybe it’s malicious compliance. Yesterday Dr. Max Grossman got another restraining to prevent the City of El Paso from demolishing

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John Oliver on Stadiums

2019-01-01 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

Here’s John Oliver on Last Week Tonight talking about publicly funded stadiums (and arenas). Watch this video on YouTube El

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Sunday Matinee: A Company Man

2018-12-30 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Have you ever had a bad day at work? Not like these guys. The company the company man works for

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Our Dirty Little Secret

2018-12-30 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Mayor Dee "Don't You Know Who I Am?" Margo, Media, Slider, The Arena 4 comments

Imma let you in on a little secret. In El Paso, we don’t get the best and brightest. Look, for

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El Paso in the Guardian

2018-12-28 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

Lately El Paso has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. But here’s something nice. Here’s a story

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Comedy Council

2018-12-18 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, City Management, Ethics, Slider 4 comments

From KVIA, here’s Representative Henry Rivera, addressing the leak of a draft of City Manager Tommy “Great Wolf” Gonzalez’ new

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Slomo

2018-12-10 elrichiboy Video, Welcome to Monday One comment

Do what you want. Watch this video on YouTube And try not to be an asshole.

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  • How Government Works
  • “The Great Depression – America’s Biggest Economic Crisis”
  • “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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