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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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And the Verdict Is . . .

2017-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 3 comments

Tomorrow Today the City of El Paso goes to court in Austin to affirm their conviction that the arena they

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 4 – Beyond Thinking

2017-05-29 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Video Leave a comment

Here’s the final chapter of the Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds program. By now you’ve probably given away all your material

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I’ll Get To It Later

2017-05-29 GC Adams Uncategorized 3 comments

An old buddy lamented my lack of columns lately and mentioned that he enjoyed them. Which he’s enjoying, the columns

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 3 – The Serpent and the Lotus

2017-05-28 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Video Leave a comment

Sounds almost conjugal, doesn’t it? Well, it is. See Part 1 here. I’ll post the final episode tomorrow.

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Sunday Matinee: Immortals

2017-05-28 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s a movie about Greek gods and mortals and a magic bow. Everything you could want in a movie except

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 2 – The Spiral

2017-05-27 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Video Leave a comment

Here’s more of the insubstantial substance of the universe. You can watch Part 1 here. Part 3 tomorrow.

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Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds: Part 1 – Akasha

2017-05-26 elrichiboy Art, Video One comment

Do you want to know the unknowable? You can’t. But here’s someone trying to scratch the surface. In four parts.

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“You’re Fired!”

2017-05-26 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, Quality of Life Projects 3 comments

The El Paso Times reports today that mayoral candidate David Saucedo wants to fire the heads of the City’s permanent

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City of Dust: Chloride, New Mexico

2017-05-24 John Mulhouse City of Dust, What to Do Leave a comment

A Resurrection I’ll admit that many of the places I visit are run-down and lonesome and the tales tend to

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Arena Update From Max Grossman

2017-05-24 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 13 comments

Dear Friends, 2,452 El Pasoans cannot all be wrong! That is the number of citizens who signed our petition to

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The Devitalization of Downtown

2017-05-23 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes, The Arena 9 comments

Look at that map. I’ve highlighted the ballpark, the civic center, and the proposed site for the arena. I’m guessing

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UEFA Champions League Championship

2017-05-23 elrichiboy sports, What to Do Leave a comment

Heads Up! Real Madrid plays Juventus on Saturday, June 3, at 12:45 in the Finals of the UEFA Champions League.

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The City Strikes Again!

2017-05-22 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Quality of Life Projects, Taxes One comment

I’m beginning to think that those Quality of Life bonds were nothing but a mammoth fraud. Look at this story

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If You Oppose the Electric Rate Hike, You Hate Women

2017-05-21 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider Leave a comment

Remember when Mayor Oscar Leeser said that no woman deserves the kind of money that El Paso Electric CEO Mary

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Sunday Matinee: Some Chinese Action Movie

2017-05-21 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Here’s some Chinese action movie, dubbed in English. Lots of bow and arrow gunfights. Spoiler Alert: The Manchurians are real

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Support Our Sponsors!

2017-05-18 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso One comment

El Chuqueño would be a lot more miserable place without support from those guys in the right-hand column (or wherever

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More Rate Increases

2017-05-18 elrichiboy Cost of Living, Slider One comment

El Paso’s English language daily reports that Texas Gas, i.e., the gas company, want to raise its rates for the

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Destino

2017-05-18 elrichiboy Art, Video One comment

Imagine if Walt Disney had gotten together with Salvador Dali and made a trippy six minute animation that must have

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Conor Oberst at Tricky Falls Thursday

2017-05-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows Leave a comment

Are you the last person who doesn’t know who Conor Oberst is? He’s a singer/songwriter that used to be in

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Look At This Bitchin’ T-Shirt

2017-05-17 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso 2 comments

And you can get one. Half the money goes to local human rights groups. But that’s a bonus. Mostly it’s

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