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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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  • “Colombian Cartels: Meet the World’s Biggest Drug Suppliers”

    2025-06-14 elrichiboy
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La Familia Bigfoot

2017-08-18 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment

Sometimes the ads are worth watching. Watch this video on YouTube You make the call.

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It’s Not As Bad As It Looks. It’s Worse.

2017-08-17 elrichiboy Politics, School Districts, Slider, Taxes 2 comments

Surely (May I call you Shirley?) you saw that EPISD property taxes are going up by an average of $64

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Across the Fence

2017-08-16 GC Adams Politics, World News 2 comments

Watch this video on YouTube While visiting the Fort Hancock Port of Entry I discover that the border fence that

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Oh, the Hypocrisy!

2017-08-16 elrichiboy Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

Are out-of-towners meddling in El Paso’s affairs? From KVIA: A leader of the Paso Del Sur group opposing building an

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Commissioners Court Shenanigans

2017-08-15 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Politics, Taxes 2 comments

DavidK started speculating last week that Susie Byrd would run against David Stout for Commissioner Stout’s District 2 seat on

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Juan Gabriel: La Frontera featuring Julión Álvarez

2017-08-14 elrichiboy Music, Video One comment

Here’s Juan Gabriel singing a remix of La Frontera, a song that celebrates the border that he wrote maybe a

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They’re Bullies.

2017-08-14 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 15 comments

Did you see this story on KVIA? Texas oilman J.P. Bryan, one of the state’s richest men and one with

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Sunday Matinee: Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious

2017-08-13 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a 1946 flick that has everything: drunk driving, violence, smoking in bed. And the OSS pimping out a chick

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Tonight: Laramie Dean at the Neon Rose/Boomtown

2017-08-12 elrichiboy Music, What to Do Leave a comment

The Neon Rose has an identity problem. Everyone thinks it’s still Boomtown. Maybe it still is.’ Watch this video on

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Things To Do Today

2017-08-11 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do 2 comments

The calendar is full and the moon is gibbous. Here are some of the most El Paso things you can

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City of Dust: Pie Town, New Mexico

2017-08-10 John Mulhouse City of Dust 2 comments

Pie Town, New Mexico In the pinon-juniper woodland west of Socorro, New Mexico, just east of the Arizona line, is

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A Bar On Both Sides of the Border?

2017-08-09 elrichiboy Mexico, World News 2 comments

Maybe it’s just a PR stunt. From Mexico News Daily: They haven’t any permits yet but a Scottish brewery that

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Tonight! Bravos versus Chivas!

2017-08-09 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

Tonight over there at the stadium in Juarez, our hometown Juarez Bravos are taking on the Guadalajara Chivas as part

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City Council is Helpless

2017-08-09 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Slider, Taxes 7 comments

In this week’s El Paso Inc., Mayor Dee Margo explains why the property tax increase isn’t his fault. Dee Margo

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This Land Is Your Land . . . No, Not Yours

2017-08-09 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Slider One comment

Here’s a comment I received last night, in its entirety. I tried busking in downtown El Paso today for the

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Thanks But No Thanks

2017-08-08 elrichiboy City Council Leave a comment

Tonight I sent an email to my City Representative. Another reader complained that the security guards at San Jacinto Plaza

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Movie Night: Virtuosity

2017-08-08 elrichiboy Movie Night Leave a comment

There are more movies available than I can show one day a week. So I’m expanding my movie offerings. Welcome

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Music Video: Frontera Bugalú

2017-08-08 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment

Here’s a new (?) video I just found on El Feis. Everybody’s favorite ex-El Paso band, Frontera Bugalú. It’s righteous.

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You Got My Vote

2017-08-07 GC Adams Uncategorized One comment

Watch this video on YouTube I walked into the house this week and thought I had passed through a portal

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Music Video: Amalia Mondragon at Dave’s Pawn Shop

2017-08-07 elrichiboy Music, Slider, Video One comment

Here’s a video by local talent Amalia Mondragon. Watch this video on YouTube Amalia describes herself as a chuqueña, from

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