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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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  • James Cagney in “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye”

    2026-05-31 elrichiboy
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  • “Impossible Places: World’s Most Extreme Corners on Earth”

    2026-05-30 elrichiboy
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  • “Blackout”

    2026-05-24 elrichiboy
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  • “Sevres & Sykes–Picot: How the Middle East Was Divided”

    2026-05-23 elrichiboy
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  • Memories, Reflections and Connections: The Border Feminicides 20 Years later, Part Two

    2026-05-20 Kent Paterson

    Feature photo: Mercedes Doretti of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team addresses the Las Cruces gathering. (Photo by Cynthia Bejarano) Convened on the 20th anniversary of

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City Council Raises Taxes! Again! And Again!

2018-07-24 Rich Wright Quality of Life Projects, Taxes One comment

At a Special Meeting on Monday, City Council approved an additional $20 million in Certificates of Obligation for the Children’s

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Sunday Matinee: Sync

2018-07-22 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a surprisingly decent movie that half Quantum Leap, half James Bond, and half Westworld. That’s right. It’s a movie

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A Letter

2018-07-20 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, The Arena One comment

Someone slipped this under the door of El Chuqueño World Headquarters last night. It appears to be a letter from

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Bloomberg on Publicly Funded Stadiums

2018-07-19 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 2 comments

An alert reader pointed out that this week Bloomberg.com, that bastion of liberal thinking, ran an article called Four Reasons

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“The Sunk Cost Fallacy”

2018-07-18 elrichiboy Slider, The Arena Leave a comment

Here’s a piece from YouAreNotSoSmart.com on the Sunk Cost Fallacy, the idea that you’ve already invested so much in a

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Mountain Biking Lost Dog

2018-07-17 elrichiboy City Council, How to Live in El Paso, Slider, TIRZs, Video One comment

Here’s the City’s latest advertisement promoting some of the wonderful outdoor opportunities we can enjoy here in El Paso. Watch

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Chicano Batman At Music Under the Stars at Cohen on Sunday

2018-07-14 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

There are lots of ways to slice El Paso. Some El Pasoans like baseball and lazy river rides. And some

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El Paso’s Finest

2018-07-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Law Enforcement 3 comments

By now you’ve seen the El Paso Police Officer draw his weapon on those kids on the southside. In case

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About the Lost Dog TIRZ

2018-07-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs 6 comments

Here’s some informed speculation about TIRZ 12, the Lost Dog TIRZ. I think it has something to do with that

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More Lies From Our Friends In City Government

2018-07-12 Rich Wright Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, TIRZs 2 comments

Here’s the City’s Economic Development Director spinning the TIRZs: City Council voted to approve the creation of Tax Increment Reinvestment

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Budget Theater

2018-07-12 Rich Wright City Council, Taxes Leave a comment

The City is in the midst of budget talks. Here’s the almost latest from the El Paso Times: Homeowners could

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Trump Takes Aim At Chiclets Vendors

2018-07-10 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, Mexico, National Policy, News 4 comments

In order to level the playing field with ambulatory vendors on the bridge, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has restricted the

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Poop Doubt

2018-07-10 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube I recently discovered in a Barnes & Nobel restroom that nerds are terrible shots, which

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A Better Site for the Mexican American Cultural Center

2018-07-09 Rich Wright City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 9 comments

I think the City spends our money poorly. The City spends our money courting out-of-town businesses that compete with our

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Sunday Matinee: Kiss Me Deadly

2018-07-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s Mike Hammer at his glorious best. There’s a lot in this movie. A 1951 Jaguar XK 120 Roadster. A

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On The Road Again

2018-07-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development Leave a comment

According to this story in the USAToday online (which an alert reader directed me to), El Paso was the ninth

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How To Live in El Paso: Car-Camping

2018-07-05 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

This 4th of July we went car-camping. I’ve slept on the ground a lot. I used to backpack, hiking into

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The El Paso Street Debacle

2018-07-03 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development One comment

El Paso Street was El Paso’s first street. Mandy the Mule used to haul transnationals down the middle of the

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The Stanton Street Bike Lane

2018-07-03 elrichiboy City Council, Trolley 7 comments

To accommodate the trolley running down the middle of Stanton Street, the City choked it down to one lane each

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Still No Ethics (Revision)

2018-07-02 elrichiboy City Council, Ethics 2 comments

Remember this story from the El Paso Inc. that appeared way back on 19 March 2018? Members of the city’s

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