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  • El Paso Matters to the Rescue

    2026-08-07 Rich Wright

    From ElPasoMatters.org: Between 2015 and 2025, the number of El Pasoans under age 65 grew by fewer than 4,000. The number of those 65 and

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

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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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  • 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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  • Data centers, school closures and sprawl are a signal that El Paso needs a new civic vision

    2026-07-30 Guest Column

    By Dylan Corbett, Special to El Paso Matters. Our city stands at a turning point. Schools are closing. Young people are leaving. The global economy

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  • “The Arrest That Exposed the CIA’s Most Secret Mission”

    2026-08-08 elrichiboy
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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”

    2026-08-02 elrichiboy
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  • John Prine – “I Remember Everything”

    2026-07-30 elrichiboy
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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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Did You Know That I Am An Award-Winning Chef?

2017-11-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do One comment

Yup. Lookie here: I won that at the second occasional casserole contest over there in Steglich’s backyard. My winning dish

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Andrew Joseph at TEDx El Paso

2017-11-18 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment

Here’s a video of local cyber-genius Andrew Joseph delivering a presentation at this year’s TEDx. Watch this video on YouTube

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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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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”

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