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  • Forget the Carpetbaggers. What about the Judases?

    2026-07-25 elrichiboy

    Say what you will about the carpetbaggers who come into El Paso and fleece the citizens and then move away. At least they have the

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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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  • “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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“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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The Freeway Is Open

2018-08-19 Rich Wright Breaking News 2 comments

Or at least it will be momentarily. The work on the utility bridge is done. Now all we lack is

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief

2018-08-19 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

You’ve been good. Some of you have been very good. Others, not so much. You know who you are. For

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Where Am I?

2018-08-18 elrichiboy History, New Mexico 13 comments

A reader sent in this photo, and he’s looking to identify the location. Here’s what Phillip tells us: Westward bound

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Oye, Coño!

2018-08-18 elrichiboy Downtown, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 6 comments

Have you been waiting for a good Cuban restaurant to open downtown? Wait no longer! Los Lopez Lopez just opened

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Toro!

2018-08-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 2 comments

Are you in the mood for a barbaric spectacle that’s steeped in tradition? Well, the election isn’t till November, but

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“Hold The Line”

2018-08-15 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

This from the El Paso Times this morning: The City Council rejected a utility sales tax on natural gas and

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Reasonable People

2018-08-14 Rich Wright Political Advertisement, Slider One comment

I think reasonable people will agree that El Paso’s property taxes are too high. El Paso’s property tax rates are

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Sunday Matinee: Anon

2018-08-12 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

Here’s a movie starring Clive Owen as a detective on an omniscient police force trying to stop a hacker who

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Retrovision: Who’s Driving This Truck?

2018-08-10 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

This article originally appeared on 15 December 2016. It looks increasingly like City Staff are giving direction to City Council

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About That Great Wolf Lodge

2018-08-06 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Taxes 9 comments

The poobahs at Great Wolf got hornswoggled into opening one of their hotel water parks in El Paso. Have you

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Sunday Matinee: Pickup on South Street

2018-08-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Here’s a cold war era noir flick from back when the Soviet Union was a bad actor. How times have

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A Public Obscenity

2018-08-03 Rich Wright ballpark, City Council, Political Advertisement, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 5 comments

I think it’s obscene that the City of El Paso asks the working poor to pay for luxury amenities for

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Retrovision: The Real Costs of the QoL Projects

2018-08-02 elrichiboy City Council, City Management, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Education, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes One comment

This article originally appeared on 12 April 2017. Sure, half a billion dollars is a lot of money. Especially for

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