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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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They Outright Lied To You

2017-08-31 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Elections, Media, Politics, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, Taxes One comment

Remember when all our good civil servants, elected officials, and captains of industry were pitching those Quality of Life bond

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Bullfight Friday Night

2017-08-30 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do Leave a comment

If you’re a bullfight aficionado you probably already know that there’s a bullfight Friday night at the Alberto Balderas bullring

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City of Dust: Lingo, New Mexico

2017-08-29 John Mulhouse City of Dust 6 comments

A Little Piece of Quiet I might as well stop pretending that I’m going to write more regularly and admit

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City Government is Killing El Paso

2017-08-28 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Politics, Slider, The Arena 7 comments

Since 2012, the City of El Paso has only grown by 7,472 people, according to estimates by the U.S. Census

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Race Has Nothing To Do With It

2017-08-28 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Video, Welcome to Monday Leave a comment

Here’s a guy talking about race baiting, and classist oppression, and poverty, and guess which community makes a cameo appearance?

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Make America Grate Again

2017-08-28 GC Adams Uncategorized One comment

Watch this video on YouTube I don’t think people caught the slogan correctly. It’s “Make America GREAT Again.” Grrrrr-8. Great.

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Sunday Matinee: Killer Elite

2017-08-27 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

Robert DeNiro and Jason Statham star as professional killers hired to take on the SAS. What could go wrong? Watch

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A Failure in Branding

2017-08-24 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, City Council, Downtown, Economic Development, Slider, The Arena 15 comments

Here’s a letter to the editor from the El Paso Times: Here in my hometown, I have never witnessed the

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Enter Los Saicos, a Proto-Punk Band from Peru

2017-08-24 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment

Check out this cool documantary about Los Saicos, the grandfathers of punk, from Peru. Watch this video on YouTube And

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Mike and the Moonpies Tonight at the State Line

2017-08-23 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Music, shows, What to Do Leave a comment

Mike and the Moonpies bring their brand of outlaw country to the State Line tonight as part of the barbecue

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Music Video: Kikimora

2017-08-22 elrichiboy Music, Video Leave a comment

Here’s the jazz stylings of Kikimora, singing Sputnik live at Star City Studio. Watch this video on YouTube Check it

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Baby Stations on Sale

2017-08-22 elrichiboy City Council, Slider, Taxes 4 comments

Have you ever wondered why everything our City Government buys is so expensive? I mean, $7 million to fix up

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Our Tax Base Is Collapsing

2017-08-22 elrichiboy City Council, Cost of Living, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes, The Arena One comment

People are leaving town. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that between 2012 and 2016, El Paso County only grew by

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Death Valley Girls at Monarch Tonight

2017-08-22 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

You know what’s wrong with garage rock? There’s not enough girls doing it. Enter Death Valley Girls. Here they are

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Tips for Watching Mayweather versus McGregor

2017-08-21 elrichiboy What to Do One comment

So where are your going to watch the fight? If you want to watch it at your house, the Pay

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A Tip For Watching the Eclipse

2017-08-21 elrichiboy Science Leave a comment

Don’t look at the eclipse directly. Use a mirror. It worked for Perseus. You’re welcome.

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Sunday Matinee: Indiscreet

2017-08-20 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

How long has it been since you’ve seen a movie starring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant? Indiscreet is the second

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A Streetcar Named Desire at G2

2017-08-19 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do One comment

A hundred years ago there used to be an annual event called Movie on the Mountain. Some lunatics would haul

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Just a Scrap

2017-08-18 elrichiboy City Council, Taxes 2 comments

Mayor Dee Margo seemed to put the blame for the tax increase on incumbent representatives Peter Svarzbein, Michiel Noe, and

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Chango Radio Reventón

2017-08-18 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do One comment

From El Feis: El proyecto mas problematico, desmadrado, desmadroso, prehispanico, sin calidad, sin futuro, de bajo presupuesto, pero mas amoroso

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  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”
  • Data centers, school closures and sprawl are a signal that El Paso needs a new civic vision

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