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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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Trolley News

2018-09-12 Rich Wright Slider, Trolley One comment

A couple of weeks ago I went to one of the “Trolley Safety Meetings.” The meeting was in the auditorium

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The “Arena” Looms Large

2018-09-12 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Downtown, Media, The Arena 4 comments

This week the El Paso Inc. tries to demonstrate that El Pasoans knew all along that the Multi Purpose Performing

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The Trouble With TIRZs

2018-09-11 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, TIRZs Leave a comment

The City of El Paso is proposing another TIRZ. TIRZ 13 will be in Northeast El Paso, up against the

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Sunday Matinee: The Wake of the Red Witch

2018-09-09 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Here’s a John Wayne movie you’ve never seen. The Wake of the Red Witch features John Wayne as a sea

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Does Your City Council Representative Deserve A Raise?

2018-09-06 Rich Wright City Council, City Management, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

To tell the truth, we don’t know. We can’t know. All the decisions are made out of the public eye.

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Rat Park and Addiction

2018-09-04 elrichiboy Media, Perspectives, Science, Slider 3 comments

What are the factors that contribute to drug abuse and addiction? We are largely a country of loners. Isolated, by

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Open Government

2018-09-03 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Political Advertisement, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

According to Wikipedia, Open government is the governing doctrine which holds that citizens have the right to access the documents

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The Quiller Memorandum

2018-09-02 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a decent cold war era spy film, loaded with deceit and betrayal and Nazis and British agents. Watch this

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The Mayor On Wikipedia

2018-08-31 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Did you know that Mayor Margo has a Wikipedia page? It’s a little sparse. Maybe you could make some edits.

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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

2018-08-30 elrichiboy Meta Blog, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs 3 comments

As if to illustrate my point, my good friend Chuco Geek had this to say about my most recent article

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Cousin Lemp’s Whack-A-Mole Bad Habit

2018-08-29 Rich Wright Meta Blog, Slider, TIRZs 5 comments

There’s this fallacy circulating that TIRZ 12 means that only the people who buy land up there on the mountain

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Now, or Later?

2018-08-28 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Let’s take a stroll down memory lane. El Paso used to be a growing city. From 2010 to 2012, El

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The Quest for Continuity

2018-08-27 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Elections, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes One comment

Remember? They told us that hiring City Managers for ten years would provide “continuity.” The problem is compounded by our

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“Market Value”

2018-08-27 elrichiboy Uncategorized 2 comments

Today the County Commissioners are giving themselves a four percent raise. Here’s how Precinct 4 Commissioner Andrew Haggerty justified the

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Retrovision: About Those Quality of Life Projects

2018-08-26 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Economic Development, Taxes, The Arena, Welfare for the Rich Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 19 April 2018, but let me say it again. Advocates of the Quality of Life

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Sunday Matinee: The Sun Shines Bright

2018-08-26 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s this trippy John Ford flick from 1953. Here’s what one movie website had to say about John Ford: Among

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Friday Short: The Fence

2018-08-24 elrichiboy Friday Short Leave a comment

Here’s an award winning short film. With accents, and a modicum of brief violence. Watch this video on YouTube Check

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Hope In One Hand . . .

2018-08-23 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, City Management, Economic Development 2 comments

Here’s an article a reader alerted me to, which pretty much sums up the City’s position: Hope is a psychological

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What The . . . ?

2018-08-22 elrichiboy Breaking News 2 comments

A UFO? Definitely. A flying saucer? Perhaps. Check out the picture that an avid reader (okay, actually the friend of

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Are Their Lips Moving?

2018-08-20 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, TIRZs One comment

El Paso Inc. this week had a nice feature on Hunt Companies’ development in Northwest El Paso. Have you been

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