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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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Sunday Matinee: God of War

2018-04-08 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a cool Chinese Ming dynasty era war movie, in Mandarin (Cantonese?) with English subtitles, so you can watch it

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Still Lives: Taos

2018-04-05 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse Art, New Mexico, 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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The City’s Filmmaker Program: Built to Fail

2018-04-05 elrichiboy Art, City Council, Slider 3 comments

Tuesday City Council voted to give up to $30,000 to local filmmakers for projects produced in El Paso. Of course,

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The City’s Filmmaker Program

2018-04-05 elrichiboy Art, City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects Leave a comment

This from KVIA: The El Paso City Council voted to create a local Filmmaker Program. The city will award $30,000

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Waiting Room

2018-04-04 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 4 comments

I’m sitting in a waiting room at the Hospital de la Familia, one floor up and a hundred yards from

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Champions League Today

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

Barcelona hosts Roma at 12:45. I think I’m going to La Esquina de Chihuahuas to watch the game and maybe

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Special City Council Meetings? Updated

2018-04-03 elrichiboy City Council 2 comments

I just heard (on the livestream of the City Council’s regular meeting) that videos of the El Paso City Council

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Sunday Matinee: Beyond Mombassa

2018-04-01 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Like last week’s trip to 1954 Machu Pichu, here’s a time travelogue to Kenya in 1956. Starring Cornel Wilde and

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Special Feature: Daughter of God

2018-03-30 elrichiboy Art, Movie Night, Video 3 comments

Here’s a trippy, tender, messed up, Keanu flick. It was originally released as Exposed to much less than stellar reviews,

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That’s the Ticket

2018-03-26 GC Adams Uncategorized 5 comments

Watch this video on YouTube During today’s walk, a Code Enforcement vehicle stopped in front of me and a woman

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Last Week, City Council Raised Your Taxes

2018-03-26 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

As I mentioned last week, but this time from the El Paso Inc.: The price that El Paso Electric must

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Sunday Matinee: Secret of the Incas

2018-03-25 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s Charlton Heston as Indiana Jones. No, really. Sort of. 1954, with Nicole Murray as a sexy Romanian Cold War

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Local Film Short: Nacido de Nuevo

2018-03-24 elrichiboy Art, Shorts, Video 2 comments

El Paso’s nascent film scene is happening right under our noses. Here’s an award-winning short from Los Angeles filmmaker Evan

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Mo’ Taxes

2018-03-24 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes One comment

Since 1987, the County of El Paso has been getting a quarter of the sales tax collected in the city.

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We’re Number 2! (For Now)

2018-03-23 elrichiboy ballpark, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes, The Arena Leave a comment

Fort Worth has slightly higher property tax rates than El Paso. For now. According to SmartAsset.com (killer website name), the

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Still Lives: Flora Vista

2018-03-22 Richard Baron and John Mulhouse New Mexico, 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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A Rose By Any Other Name

2018-03-22 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes One comment

Did you see this story in the El Paso Times? El Paso Electric ratepayers will see a smaller than expected

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Toro Toro Toro

2018-03-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, sports, What to Do Leave a comment

After a long hiatus, the bullfights are back in Juarez. April 7 features a slew of rejoneadores. Those rejoneadores are

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Bread and Taxes

2018-03-21 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Right now I’m making bread. I’m at the part of the bread-making process where a lump of dough sits in

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City of Dust: Center Point, New Mexico (Updated)

2018-03-19 John Mulhouse City of Dust 21 comments

Too Small to be a Village, Not Large Enough to be a Town On Highway 55, about 40 miles south

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