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  • “Your Summer Electric Bill Explained”

    2026-07-31 anonymous

    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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  • “Easy Riders, Raging Bulls”

    2026-06-27 elrichiboy
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  • F. E. Curry And Fate’s Vagary

    2026-06-25 Bob Chessey

    The 1923 trial of F. E. Curry is a tale of a lawman who, from performing official duties, became labeled a criminal and exemplifies the

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Mexico Only Has Two Problems . . .

2017-06-08 elrichiboy Mexico, Video Leave a comment

You, and everyone else. Here’s a video that takes a stab at Mexico’s chronic problems. Check it out.

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Visit Juarez Like a Tourist

2017-06-08 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez, What to Do 6 comments

Do you go to Juarez? If you do, you likely only go to the bars and restaurants. And who can

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In the News, Sorta

2017-06-07 elrichiboy Art, Brand El Paso Leave a comment

Gabriel Solis writes about how At the Drive In changed his life. At Vice.com: “No guey, you don’t get it!”

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Shrub by Valentin Sandoval

2017-06-07 elrichiboy Art, Go Local, Video Leave a comment

Valentin Sandoval is a videographer and the author of South Sun Rising, a critically acclaimed bilingual prose poem about his

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Anyone But Adolfo

2017-06-07 elrichiboy City Council, Politics 4 comments

El Chuqueño doesn’t endorse candidates. Well, we might, if we were one hundred and ten percent sure that they were

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The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous

2017-06-05 elrichiboy Navel Gazing, Retrovision 4 comments

Back before we were old enough to drink, we drank Schlitz. Schlitz tall boys, in steel cans, with a seam

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Renonsense Man

2017-06-05 GC Adams Uncategorized Leave a comment

A friend recently referred to another friend as the common term for a polymath and I thought, yeah…nah. Actually, I

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Sunday Matinee: The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World

2017-06-04 elrichiboy Sunday Matinee Leave a comment

In the sixties, various studios came out with James Bond knockoffs. There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of spy and secret

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Robert Randolph at Tricky Falls Tomorrow Night

2017-06-03 elrichiboy Art, Music, What to Do Leave a comment

Pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph brings his funk and soul and burn-the-house-down rock and roll to Tricky Falls tomorrow night.

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UEFA Champions League Final

2017-06-02 elrichiboy Juarez, sports, What to Do Leave a comment

Saturday, June 3, at 12:45 pm, Real Madrid plays Juventus in the final game of the UEFA Champions League. Mostly,

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Radioactivity at Monarch Tomorrow Night

2017-06-02 Fletcher Wright shows, What to Do Leave a comment

This Saturday, we’ll give a warm welcome to a couple touring acts out of Denton. The first being Bad Sports,

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The Latest Numbers

2017-06-01 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development 2 comments

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates for cities are out. According to their Quick Facts, the population of the City of

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City of Dust: Encino, New Mexico

2017-05-31 John Mulhouse City of Dust 58 comments

After the Depot I spend a lot of time on US Highway 60. Not only do I travel the road

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Tornado in Chihuahua

2017-05-31 elrichiboy Video Leave a comment

Rubio is the alias for Colonia Obregon, north of Cuahtemoc, where lately they’ve been having running gun battles in the

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Courthouse Update From Max Grossman

2017-05-31 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, Slider, The Arena 2 comments

Dear Friends, I am writing to you to in order to clear up misconceptions about today’s hearing in the 201

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Which End of the Stick Do the Taxpayers Get?

2017-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Economic Development, Slider, Taxes 12 comments

Our friends on City Council today gave away another million dollars. From KVIA: Construction on a new $16 million development

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Drink Tequila, Lose Weight

2017-05-30 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso One comment

According to a report presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society: A sweetener created from the plant used

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But Wait . . .

2017-05-30 elrichiboy City Council, Quality of Life Projects, The Arena 5 comments

According to KVIA, the judge in the case the City filed for a declaratory judgment has postponed the case till

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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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