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  • Watching the Watchers

    2025-07-02 Rich Wright

    I told you about the Torre Centinela that’s going up in downtown Juarez. Well, Juarez isn’t the only city in Mexico with a Sentinel System.

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  • EPEC’s Rate Increase

    2025-06-30 Rich Wright

    In this ElPasoMatters.com post, Diego Mendoza-Myers writes about EPEC’s plans to build out its system and what that means for EPEC’s customers. The El Paso

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  • “Intrigue”

    2025-06-29 elrichiboy
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  • “Physicist Brian Cox Investigates the Most Controversial Scientific Discoveries”

    2025-06-28 elrichiboy
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  • El Paso Electric is Coming for Your Money

    2025-06-23 Rich Wright

    Vic Kolenc has written an article for the El Paso Times headlined ‘An international issue’ | El Paso Electric substation construction boom aimed at big-energy

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  • “The Spider”

    2025-06-22 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Volcanic Cave Village | Habitats of the World: Iran”

    2025-06-21 elrichiboy
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  • “The First Livestreamed Genocide”

    2025-06-21 Rich Wright

    From AlJazeera.com: The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit’s feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves.

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  • I Don’t Like Bullies

    2025-06-20 Rich Wright

    On Wednesday, CBSNews.com reported that President Trump said “They [Iran] were bullies. They were schoolyard bullies, and now they’re not bullies anymore.” Wait a minute.

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  • Commercial Traffic at the Bridge of the Americas

    2025-06-18 Rich Wright

    Mexican business leaders want to keep truck traffic on the Free Bridge, despite the United States General Services Administration’s decision to eliminate it. From KVIA.com:

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  • STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, SIR, or Fear and Loathing in El Paso

    2025-06-16 Paul Dickerson

    by Paul Dickerson This morning, I was crossing the Puente Paso del Norte back to El Paso after running a pressing errand in Ciudad Juárez.

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  • “Outside the Law”

    2025-06-15 elrichiboy
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Advice for Bar and Restaurant Entrepreneurs: Wealth vs. Income

2017-11-16 elrichiboy Uncategorized One comment

For young entrepreneurs in El Paso, the popular thing to do these days to open a restaurant, or a bar.

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Chile Cookoff at Hope & Anchor

2017-11-15 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Okay, sports fans. Sunday at 4 pm there’s a chile cookoff taking place at Hope & Anchor. I’ll be there.

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The Emperor’s New Clothes

2017-11-15 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, It's All Good, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Is the City out of touch with the taxpayers? Here’s an op-ed in the El Paso Times from Mayor Dee

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Reuters on El Paso and NAFTA

2017-11-14 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider, World News 2 comments

Here’s a report from Reuters on the effect that NAFTA had on El Paso, and the likely effect discontinuing NAFTA

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Sparta Concert! FREE Tickets!

2017-11-13 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, Music, What to Do Leave a comment

Sparta’s playing a benefit concert on Saturday, December 16, at Tricky Falls. And tickets are FREE, FREE, FREE. But you

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A New Verse to the Same Old Song

2017-11-13 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Media, Slider, Taxes 5 comments

Remember last week I asked “Is the City Paying Companies to Not Leave Town?” Well, Vic Kolenc of the El

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Sunday Matinee: Flashpoint

2017-11-12 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Here’s a movie from 1984 featuring one of America’s greatest songwriters Kris Kristofferson, as a Border Patrol agent on the

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Salsa Brava

2017-11-11 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

At Monarch last night the salsa brava was pretty popular. “You should sell it,” people said. But I’m not into

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Maybe You Can Relate

2017-11-10 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Video 3 comments

Perhaps you’ve seen this. It’s a used car commercial for a 1996 Honda Accord. Watch this video on YouTube Check

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Free To Good Home, Chile Pequin Plants

2017-11-09 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

I’ve got about six or nine Chile Pequin plants growing in pots, and I’d like to offshore them before it’s

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The Left Hand Doesn’t Know the Lies the Right Hand Is Telling

2017-11-09 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Taxes Leave a comment

Lookie here. Here’s a slide from the presentation that the City of El Paso’s Director of Economic Development Jessica Herrera

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Is The City Paying Companies To Not Leave Town?

2017-11-08 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

At the October 3, 2017, meeting, the El Paso City Council passed the following ordinance: That the City Manager is

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City of Dust: Pinos Altos, New Mexico

2017-11-07 John Mulhouse City of Dust One comment

High Pines About seven miles north of Silver City, New Mexico, on Hwy 15, at the gateway to the massive

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El Paso Electric is a Bad Corporate Citizen

2017-11-06 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

The El Paso Inc. reports that El Paso Electric Company CEO Mary Kipp was recently feted at the El Paso

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Where’s Peter?

2017-11-06 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Elections 3 comments

Here’s former City Representative and mayoral candidate Steve Ortega talking about the trolley in the El Paso Scene: Among the

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Orion and Us

2017-11-06 GC Adams Uncategorized 2 comments

Watch this video on YouTube Tonight, when I took the dogs out, low in the sky on the east end

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Sunday Matinee: Kurmanjan Datka, Queen of the Mountains

2017-11-05 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a movie from Kyrgyzstan. Who would have thunk it? Here’s a quote from the Hollywood Times: [Sharon] Stone called

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Mexican Tiger Trap

2017-11-03 elrichiboy Law Enforcement, Media, Mexico One comment

La Polaka, Periodismo en Caliente, reports a wave of retaliatory violence in Western Chihuahua following the arrest of the drug

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El Paso Electric Fund Drive

2017-11-03 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Slider 2 comments

With the holidays coming up, it’s time to consider those of us who are less fortunate. Like those poor dears

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As Goes Baltimore, So Goes El Paso

2017-11-03 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, The Arena One comment

Here’s an abstract of a scholarly article from the Journal of Urban Affairs. The title of the paper is “Downtown

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