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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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  • 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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“Some Cities Are Screwed”

2018-06-16 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes 3 comments

An alert reader sent me this relevant article from Salon: [A]s the adage goes, all economics is local. One part

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How Much is So Much?

2018-06-16 elrichiboy Perspectives 2 comments

You hear it all the time. “Thank you so much.” Well, how much is so much? Is it more than

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Sign the Lost Dog Petition

2018-06-16 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 2 comments

The City thinks the way to make El Paso attractive is to tart her up like a hooker in a

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Joel Is Right

2018-06-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, Welfare for the Rich 7 comments

There are lots of places where people can live and El Paso is one of them. Unfortunately for the El

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I Can Admit It When I Make a Mistake

2018-06-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, Ethics, Slider 2 comments

The City can’t. Which is probably why they can’t stop making mistakes. If you’re going to pretend your mistake never

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Still Lives: Carlsbad

2018-06-12 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse Still Lives Leave a comment

Photographs by Richard Baron / Stories by John Mulhouse I knew the moment we met that we’d be together until

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Looking Back to the Future

2018-06-12 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Ethics, Slider 2 comments

I’ve been chasing someone else’s disposable income my whole life. Before slinging drinks on the front lines of the service

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What If Their Plan Doesn’t Work?

2018-06-11 elrichiboy ballpark, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 6 comments

What if they’re doing it wrong? What if their plans for economic development are based on false assumptions? What if

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Sunday Matinee: Fist of Legend

2018-06-10 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s Jet Li in a 1994 action flick. What else is there to say? Watch this video on YouTube Check

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Is El Paso Dying?

2018-06-07 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

I went by the liquor mega-store this week and there were four cars in the parking lot. Inside there were

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The El Paso Housing Bubble

2018-06-06 elrichiboy Economic Development 5 comments

The Central Appraisal District tells us that house values are up 7.6 percent this year. While the U.S. Census Bureau

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Retrovision: A Failure in Branding

2018-06-05 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena One comment

This article originally appeared on 24 August 2017. Here’s a letter to the editor from the El Paso Times: Here

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Educating the Electorate

2018-06-05 elrichiboy Education, Elections, Media 2 comments

The media aren’t going to do it. Have any of them reported on El Paso’s abysmal population growth rate? Have

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The Home of Predatory Capitalism

2018-06-04 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Ethics, Perspectives, Public Private Partnerships, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

Here’s another killer essay about the decline of American civilization. A friend, recently, told me a very interesting and telling

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If You Build It, Will They Come?

2018-06-04 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

This, from KTSM: City Council approved a controversial proposal Tuesday to create a special taxing zone to spur development along

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Sunday Matinee: Hard Boiled

2018-06-03 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s director John Woo’s 1992 cops and gangsters classic, starring Chow Yun-fat. Lots of that bang bang shoot-’em-up choreography that

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City of Dust: Acme and Frazier, New Mexico

2018-06-01 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

A Tale of Two Towns Those of you who are fans of the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote might be

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Another More Egregious Open Meeting Violation

2018-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, TIRZs, Welfare for the Rich 3 comments

From the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas’ Open Meetings Handbook 2018: 2. Section 551.072. Deliberations

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More Businesses But Not More Business

2018-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, TIRZs Leave a comment

Here’s a graphic I lifted from the City’s website, detailing what kind of businesses the City is expecting to move

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The First Rule of Operational Security

2018-05-30 elrichiboy Economic Development, Public Private Partnerships, TIRZs Leave a comment

. . . is that you don’t talk about Operational Security. I bet that they’ve revoked Major Morgan’s security clearance

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  • Another Actor Suddenly Exits the Doña Ana County Political Stage
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