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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”

    2026-08-02 elrichiboy
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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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The Second Oldest Bar in Juarez

2017-02-21 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, Juarez Leave a comment

El Recreo is so exclusive it doesn’t even have a sign. I was in there three times before I figured

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Weed Delivery

2017-02-21 elrichiboy It's All Good Leave a comment

Here’s a story in GQ about models who deliver weed in NYC. A friend tells me about the Green Angels,

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Weird Historical Commission Tidbit

2017-02-20 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, The Arena One comment

The new County Historical Commissioners had to swear to uphold the Constitution when they were sworn in. Here’s what they

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What could possibly go wrong?

2017-02-20 elrichiboy Mexico Leave a comment

Naica is down there west of the highway between Delicias and Camargo, south of Ciudad Chihuahua. Naica is famous for

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Let’s Pretend

2017-02-20 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 8 comments

Let’s pretend all our local “progressive” politicians and their benefactors are pure of heart. Let’s pretend that their motives are

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Sunday Matinee: The Man From Nowhere

2017-02-19 elrichiboy Uncategorized Leave a comment

Here’s a Korean Movie which is supposedly the basis for John Wick 2. In Korean, with English subtitles. Check it

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The Destruction of Brand El Paso

2017-02-17 elrichiboy Slider, Brand El Paso 3 comments

A brand’s greatest asset is its ability to define itself. Of course, brands do that every day. Every time you

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Defending the Donald Trump Handshake

2017-02-17 elrichiboy How to Live in El Paso, What to Do Leave a comment

The more you know . . . . Check it out.

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Tomorrow is the deadline to register as a candidate.

2017-02-16 elrichiboy City Council, Politics, School Districts Leave a comment

Tomorrow (Friday, February 17) is the last day to register as a candidate in the May election. Half the seats

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City Government at the Zoo

2017-02-16 elrichiboy City Council One comment

I went to the City Council meeting at the zoo this morning. It was a stroke-fest. There was a breakfast

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Meth in Juarez

2017-02-16 elrichiboy Juarez One comment

Here’s a story from the Albuquerque Journal that sheds some light on the recent spate of killings in Ciudad Juarez:

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The Arena: The Word on the Street

2017-02-16 elrichiboy City Council, Downtown, The Arena Leave a comment

The word on the street is that the City is already buying land in Duranguito, and they’re offering “an obscene

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Blue Demon Jr. vs. The Border Patrol

2017-02-15 elrichiboy Art, Media, sports One comment

Here’s a cool video from the New York Times about an event that takes place occasionally in California farming communities.

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City of Dust: Taiban, New Mexico

2017-02-15 John Mulhouse City of Dust 10 comments

Whiskey and the Devil Taiban is known for its old Presbyterian Church, a lonely, gutted house of worship visited by

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Oh, that smell.

2017-02-15 elrichiboy Politics, School Districts One comment

You may have missed this story from the El Paso Times. I was only alerted to it by a comment

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Valentine’s Money-Making Opportunity

2017-02-14 elrichiboy Opportunity! Leave a comment

Before I was an internet publishing magnate I had this money-making idea: I’d go to one of the swank restaurants

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La Fiesta

2017-02-14 elrichiboy Art, How to Live in El Paso, Juarez 6 comments

This week I got to go into La Fiesta. La Fiesta is located at the corner of Mariscal and Segundo

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

2017-02-14 elrichiboy Go Local, How to Live in El Paso Leave a comment

I saw this guy hustling Valentine’s Day cards at Monarch last night. He draws the illustrations and writes the jokes.

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What has the Chamber of Commerce Done for You?

2017-02-13 elrichiboy Brand El Paso, Economic Development, Slider 2 comments

In most communities, you would expect the Chamber of Commerce to oppose tax increases on businesses. Welcome to Bizarro-World, where

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David Stout is a Hero.

2017-02-13 elrichiboy Commissioners Court, Politics, The Arena 6 comments

The rest of Commissioners Court, not so much. Today Precinct 2 Commissioner David Stout asked Commissioners Court to consider a

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  • “The Last Crooked Mile”
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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
  • John Prine – “I Remember Everything”

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