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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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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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“Mayor Sitting on Ethics Revisions”

2018-03-19 elrichiboy City Council, Slider 5 comments

That’s the front page headline of the El Paso Inc. this weekend. Here’s what it says: Members of the city’s

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Sunday Matinee: Pushover (1954)

2018-03-18 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

This classic features Fred MacMurray as a cop lured over to the dark side by the lovely Kim Novak, in

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RIP Chalo

2018-03-18 elrichiboy Art, Go Local, Music, News Leave a comment

Seminal punk rock drummer and El Paso native Charlie Quintana passed away last week in Cancun, Mexico. From the Los

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Dueling Commenters

2018-03-14 elrichiboy ballpark, City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

ChucoGeek had this to say in response to the article Times Change: This is why we are stuck following through

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Times Change

2018-03-13 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 5 comments

Lookie here. That chart at the top of this article shows the difference in taxable property values from 1999 to

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Sunday Matinee: Framed

2018-03-11 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

This 1947 Glenn Ford film finds our hero in the clutches of a beautiful barmaid who has him figured for

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How Are Your Chiles Doing?

2018-03-09 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso 3 comments

Most of my pequin survived the winter (wasn’t it brutal this year?), but so far the habaneros show no signs

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Dale Watson Leaving Austin For Memphis

2018-03-09 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development 3 comments

From the Texas Standard: “I make a good living,” Watson says. “But the city has really made it hard to

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Murderer of UTEP Grad Faces Life in Prison

2018-03-09 elrichiboy Breaking News 3 comments

Remember that engineer who was shot and killed in a bar in Kansas last year? It looks like the guy

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Stuart Blaugrund Drills Downtown

2018-03-09 elrichiboy Downtown, Economic Development 6 comments

Here’s a letter to the El Paso Times from the lawyer who challenged the Downtown Plan back in the day.

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This Guy Got Beat Up By the (Alleged) Kern Place Dog-Killer

2018-03-08 elrichiboy News, Slider 2 comments

That’s Mark Boykin, the proprieter of Mark’s Cantina. Three years ago Mr. Boykin accused his next door neighbor, Carlos Fernandez,

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Lie Back and Enjoy It

2018-03-08 elrichiboy Economic Development, The Arena Leave a comment

Some of my friends think that Woody Hunt was suggesting that the proposed arena should be reconsidered when he said

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