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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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The Money Quote

2017-10-31 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Taxes Leave a comment

After I posted that article yesterday, about El Paso’s low salaries, I was reminded that I left out the best

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All I Want is Good Government

2017-10-31 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Economic Development, If it didn't probably happen, then I wouldn't have to talk about it, MountainStar Sports Group, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 5 comments

That’s all I want. Government responsive to the needs of its citizens. All its citizens. Not just the campaign donors.

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Surprise! We’re Poor!

2017-10-30 elrichiboy ballpark, Brand El Paso, City Council, Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 3 comments

According to this story in the El Paso Inc., jobs in El Paso pay only 72 percent of the national

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Sunday Matinee: The Card

2017-10-29 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

In America, this 1952 movie was released as The Promoter. It features a 38 year-old Alec Guinness as Edward Henry

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Blame the Boomers

2017-10-27 elrichiboy National Policy, World 4 comments

Here’s an interesting hypothesis: The country is in it’s sorry state because the Baby Boomers are sociopaths. Even before the

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City of Dust: Causey, New Mexico

2017-10-26 John Mulhouse City of Dust 10 comments

In the Shadow of the Buffalo Hunters There are some towns out on the eastern plains of New Mexico, not

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Hairly Legal

2017-10-24 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

Watch this video on YouTube I missed my real calling, playing in a hair band. I still could, I guess,

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Why They Need an Arena

2017-10-23 elrichiboy City Council, Commissioners Court, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes, The Arena One comment

Here’s some interesting history to go with the prior post about eight million dollars a year that the El Paso

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The Master Plan

2017-10-22 Rich Wright Commissioners Court, Politics, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

How MountainStar Wants to Get You to Pay for Their Futbol Stadium Now it’s a futbol stadium. From the El

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Sunday Matinee: Zachariah

2017-10-22 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a rock and roll, “electric” western “comedy” from 1971, featuring Country Joe and the Fish, the James Gang, Don

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The CBC on the Mennonite Connection

2017-10-21 elrichiboy Media, Mexico, Video Leave a comment

Here’s a show from the Canadian news program The Fifth Estate about our friendly neighbors to the south, the Mennonites,

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Did You Feel That?

2017-10-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 6 comments

Was it a change in the weather, or is that what it feels like when the worm turns? Things are

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MountainStar Sports Group Soccer Survey

2017-10-17 elrichiboy MountainStar Sports Group, Slider, sports, The Arena 5 comments

MountainStar contracted with a sports marketing management consulting company to conduct a survey to gauge El Paso’s interest in their

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Better Bike Sharing

2017-10-17 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, How to Live in El Paso, Perspectives One comment

LimeBike recently raised $50 million in its second round of capital funding to expand its operations in the U.S. The

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Bloomberg on Jaime Bermúdez

2017-10-17 elrichiboy Economic Development, Juarez, Slider Leave a comment

Here’s a story from Bloomberg News on the Godfather of Maquilas, juarense Jaime Bermúdez. In Ciudad Juárez, along the U.S.-Mexico

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Sunday Matinee: Puppet on a Chain

2017-10-15 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee One comment

Here’s a 1971 movie based on an Alistair Maclean novel. The story takes a cop from the U.S. to Amsterdam

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The Good . . .

2017-10-15 elrichiboy Economic Development One comment

Ready One, nee the National Company for the Employment of the Disabled, the enterprise that former CEO Bob Jones drove

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The Bad . . .

2017-10-15 elrichiboy Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

El Paso made a couple more lists this week. We’re number nine on the list of fastest warming cities, according

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The Ugly

2017-10-15 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Politics, Slider, The Arena 5 comments

Finally, this weekend the El Paso Times ran a guest column bylined by our beloved mayor. Here’s a piece of

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Billares El Cid

2017-10-12 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez One comment

Like everything else in Mexico, like wealth and income and opportunity, the present is not equally distributed. In Mexico, the

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