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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 Senator Haley Stevens, Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed’s August 4 win in the Michigan Democratic primary for the

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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”

    2026-08-02 elrichiboy
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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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  • 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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  • “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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Richard Thompson at the Plaza Theatre April 26

2018-04-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows, What to Do One comment

Richard Thompson, one of the founding members of the British folk rock band the Fairport Convention, opens for Jason Isbell

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The Big Lie

2018-04-23 elrichiboy Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 3 comments

The advocates for the City’s Quality of Life projects pretend that we need ballparks and arenas to spur economic development.

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It’s Only (Your) Money

2018-04-23 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes 3 comments

From this weekend’s El Paso Inc.: We hear the deal is done, and there’s an announcement coming soon. What deal?

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Sunday Matinee: I The Jury

2018-04-22 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

This movie already changed your life, whether you know it or not. Here’s Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, who lives in

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Jason Isbell at the Plaza Theatre April 26

2018-04-20 elrichiboy shows, What to Do 3 comments

Country crooner Jason Isbell plays at the Plaza Theatre tonight, April 26. The show starts at 8. With Richard Thompson,

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“Stay Woke, Bitches”

2018-04-19 elrichiboy Technology 2 comments

Here’s AI Obama, cautioning us about believing everything you see, especially on the intertube. Watch this video on YouTube Check

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Google Is Always Listening

2018-04-19 elrichiboy Technology Leave a comment

Before you throw away your computer, watch this video from YouTube. Watch this video on YouTube Google, by the way,

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About Those Quality of Life Projects

2018-04-19 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes Leave a comment

Advocates of the Quality of Life bonds completely misrepresented the facts before the 2012 elections. They minimized the impact on

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Our Local Education

2018-04-18 elrichiboy Education One comment

In this piece that I picked up from Brutus’ blog, and which appeared here originally, the author says you don’t

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“If Only They Knew The Truth”

2018-04-17 elrichiboy Meta Blog 2 comments

Here’s a good story from DavidK’s Refuse the Juice blog: The El Paso Times is patting itself on the back

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Critical Mass, Anyone?

2018-04-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

On Thursday, April 19, a bunch of cyclists are taking over the streets of Juarez for the Día Mundial de

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Still Lives: Abiquiú

2018-04-17 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse Still Lives Leave a comment

Photographs by Richard Baron / Stories by John Mulhouse From 2011 to 2013, Richard Baron traveled throughout New Mexico photographing

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You Messed Up

2018-04-17 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Taxes 2 comments

Mayor Dee Margo, who promised during his campaign to “Hold the line on taxes,” thinks you’re not paying enough in

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Live Webcast

2018-04-16 elrichiboy shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit are playing at the Plaza Theatre on Thursday, April 26. I’ve already got my

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Banditos at Lowbrow Palace April 22

2018-04-16 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Hey, retro rock and rollers. Do you know this band, the Banditos? No, not the American motorcycle club with a

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Expanding My Uni Verse

2018-04-16 GC Adams Uncategorized One comment

Watch this video on YouTube I’ve decided to immerse myself into learning a new language. Martian was my first choice

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How To Be An Unregistered Lobbyist

2018-04-16 elrichiboy City Council Leave a comment

It’s easy. Lobbyists are only people who are paid to lobby. If you’re paid for something else, like, say, being

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Transparency, Transhmerancy

2018-04-16 elrichiboy City Council, Law Enforcement One comment

Tomorrow City Council is appointing a “City of El Paso Ad Hoc Charter Advisory Committee for the purpose of a

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Sunday Matinee: Hell’s Island

2018-04-15 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 1956 film noir, in VistaVision Technicolor! Watch this video on YouTube Here’s what the director, Phil Karlson had

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Studio Tour

2018-04-13 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

Are you doing anything this weekend? Maybe you’d like to see how art happens. More than three dozen artists are

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